[Chapter-delegates] BoT Elections : Mohamed El Bashir - Questions & Anwsers

[Leah Symekher]

Thank you Mohamed for your responses.
Here is one more question:

How do you plan to keep open and continuous communication with the 
Chapters (flowing bottom->up  and vice versa) during your term as BoT??

Regards,
Leah Symekher
SFBay ISOC Chapter, President


On 4/7/16 4:29 PM, Mohamed El Bashir wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Please find bellow the BoT election's questions and answers that i 
> have provided in the connect platform :
>
>
>         Question 1: Why do you want to be on the ISOC Board?
>
>  have established Sudan Internet Society in 2001, one year after I 
> have graduated from University I was 23 years old back then, one year 
> later the organization have been delegated the management of Sudan’s 
> ccTLD registry. The chapter has managing the ccTLD registry since then 
> and using its revenues to funds its activities, which was a win-win 
> situation for all the local internet community.
>
> ISOC chapter activities are my volunteer work as many of you, although 
> lots huge energy and effort as consumed in ISOC volunteer work but its 
> rewarding experience over the years because I was empowering my 
> community through the use of the Internet, I am passionate about the 
> Internet and its social and economic impact and believe that 
> ISOC Chapters are the local champions whom can make big impact at the 
> local level with the support of ISOC.
>
> If elected as a board member representing the chapters, I will be 
> another voice of the chapters in the board, expressing the chapters’ 
> issues and help ISOC Board and management in developing  programmes 
> that empower and develop the chapters.
>
> I believe that ISOC Chapters can be empowered and supported to achieve 
> ISOC goals and objectives at a national/country level, The chapters 
> are the neutral fora for discussing local internet community issues. I 
> had a good experience in building Internet related institutions at the 
> national and regional level, empowering and sustaining them through 
> building partnerships and collocations with multiple stakeholders 
> working all together for one common goal which is to utilise the 
> internet for the social and economic development.
>
>
>         Question 2: What skills and experience would you bring?
>
> I have more than 15 years of experience in Internet policy 
> development, governance and operations managing complex National 
> Internet Infrastructure Projects. Equipped with excellent 
> project-management skills, I hold an MBA for a worldwide reputable UK 
> Business School and a Msc. in Information Technology beside executive 
> business education from MIT Solan Business School.
>
> /Extensive Experience with Internet Society and Internet Policy 
> Development:/
>
> Beside being the founder of Sudan Internet Society, I have initiated 
> and supported the establishment of some ISOC chapters in Africa and 
> the Middle East Region. one of the founders of Africa Top Level 
> Domains Organization “AfTLD”, founder of ICANN AfRALO and I Have been 
> actively involved in ISOC chapter’s activities and events in Africa, 
> in 2012 I lead the organisation of the first Regional INET event in 
> MENA region.
>
> /Regional and International Engagements:/
>
> I have been actively involved in Internet policy development at 
> national, regional and international level with strong network and 
> relations with key policy/decision makers in Africa and MENA region.
>
> Have Served in several leadership positions within ICANN, I was a 
> council member of the Country Code Naming Supporting Organization 
> “ccNSO”, member of ICANN’s At-Large Advisory committee, Founder of 
> Africa’s At-Large Organization AfRALO and member of ICANN’s
> Nominating Committee.
>
> Participated in UN World Summit for Information Society “WSIS” (Geneva 
> 2003 and Tunis 2005 ), in 2006 I did attend the first Internet 
> Governance Forum “IGF” held in Athens and since then I continued to 
> participate in the IGF meetings as a panelist and had organized 
> several IGF workshops.
>
> I have actively participated in ITU-WCIT process and conference held 
> in Dubai, I have contributed to the debate regarding the Internet and 
> the International Telecommunications Regulations “ITRs”, where I was 
> an active supporter and defender of the Internet’s 
> muil-tistakeholder’s model and ISOC’s vision of an Open and Accessible 
> Internet for all.
>
> In the last past 7 years I have been actively working on technical 
> internet infrastructure projects, where I have launched major national 
> Internet/ICT projects ( e.g Establishing new ccTLD and IDN ccTLD 
> Registries, implemented National IPv6 migration strategy and an 
> Internet Exchange Point, ..etc) beside been involved in Internet’s 
> policy development.
>
> I have expertise and experience all of ISOC's key areas of focus: 
> Internet capacity building, program funding, public policy, 
> communications and technical areas of Internet standards.
>
>
>         Question 3: What specific challenges do you expect . . .?
>
> /Briefly I would like to list the bellow main Internet challenges:/
>
> /1) Trust, Privacy and Security:/
> In the recent few years, the trust in the Internet privacy and 
> security has been shaken by major events like the Snowden revelations, 
> increased cyber attacks and the continues breaches to Internet users 
> privacy cases.
>
> Restoring the regular internet user’s trust is critical for the future 
> of the development, ISOC and IETF has an important role to play in 
> developing more secure internet standards, ensure integrity of 
> encryption and build awareness of the global internet privacy and 
> trust issues.
>
> /2) Openness and Open Standards Development:/
> Its important for the Internet future development that we support and 
> maintain its open standards development, the IETF important role 
> should be supported, empowered and sustained. ISOC should ensure a 
> stable financial support for IETF activities.
>
> Currently we are observing aggressive internet content and 
> applications blocking. Therefore defending the openness of the 
> Internet is important for for developing a digital a economy and 
> encouraging innovation.
>
> /3) Access and Capacity Building:/
> Although 3 billion Internet users are currently connected and online, 
> we still have more work to be done to connect the next billions of 
> people to the Internet and improving their life to the better by using 
> the Internet.
>
> ISOC should continue its efforts to ensure more Internet Exchange 
> Points are build, support the efforts for connecting the unconnected 
> and provide capacity building to the local communities on how best to 
> utilize the Internet.
>
>
> Happy to answer any other questions raised in the mailing list.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kind Regards,
> Mohamed
>
>
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