[Chapter-delegates] Board of Trustees election: Answer from Olga Cavalli to questions made by the Elections Committee

[Olga Cavalli]

Questions made by the Elections Committee and answers to them (also posted
in the Connect Platform)

Question 1: Why do you want to be on the ISOC Board?

I want to be on the ISOC Board of Trustees so I can help ISOC achieving its
mission and its potential, using my experience, my regional and global
network and my energy.

If I am elected as an ISOC Board of Trustees member, I will bring a
unique perspective from the Global South, enhancing ISOC’s diversity from
both a gender and a regional perspective, improving its visibility into the
challenges facing the next 3 billion Internet users who will come from the
developing world, and will revitalize ISOC’s focus on chapters, including
helping them to achieve their potential.

In becoming an ISOC Board of Trustees I can bring to the organization the
perspective of my region and the south hemisphere, which is unique in
relation to the distribution of Internet infrastructure and Internet
challenges. The issues facing the Internet are common across much of the
world, but the impact it may have in the developing world is bigger.

I can use my experience to help local ISOC chapters to closely work with
ISOC and with governments, helping policy makers and decision makers to
understand the value of an Internet open to all.


Question 2: What skills and experience would you bring?

My experience comes from working with different stakeholders, including the
private sector, the government, civil society, international organizations
and academia.

My technical background added to my policy and economic academic knowledge
represents a good combination for understanding the challenges of the
Internet from a holistic point of view.

I will also bring geographic and gender diversity to the Board of Trustees.

My main skills and experiences are:

   - Strong technology background in Internet, Internet of Things,
   IXPs, telecommunication, wireless networks including mobile telephone
   networks, ICT infrastructure in general and standard development.
   - Strong regulatory background in telecommunications, Internet and
   ICTs, including global, regional and national perspectives.
   - Extensive experience in Internet Governance including ICANN, global
   IGF, Regional and national IGF and global and regional Information Society
   summits and regional plans of actions.
   - Extensive experience with International and regional organizations
   like UN, ITU, UNCTAD, UNESCO, ECLAC, Regulatel, LACNIC, LACTld, among
   others.
   - Extensive experience working with governments.
   - Extensive academic experience.
   - Experience and Involvement in activities towards closing the gender
   gap in the use of ICT and the Internet, in Latin America and the Caribbean
   and worldwide.
   - Board experience from the National Center of Engineers and from
   the ISOC Argentina Chapter.
   - Excellent communication skills, speaking several languages and being
   the only candidate able to speak Spanish as a mother tongue.
   - Extensive experience coordinating and chairing working groups, council
   and advisor committees in different languages.
   - Extensive experience in preparing and making oral presentations
   in English, Spanish and Portuguese.


Question 3: What specific challenges do you expect . . .?

The next 3 billion Internet users are coming from developing regions.
Although ISOC has deep presence in many parts of the developed world, its
involvement needs to be reinforced in developing regions.

Technical standards are evolving; the IETF has to navigate through massive
technological disruption, and evolution of standards that address these
changes, including exploding mobile Internet use, the nascent Internet of
Things (IoT), and pervasive threats to privacy and security.

At the same time, participation of experts from developing economies in the
IETF is crucial to enhance local expertise and knowledge.

Security and privacy are and will be very important challenges for the
present and future of the Internet. While different technical solutions may
be developed, the biggest challenge in developing economies is how to make
these issues considered as a higher priority in the policy agenda.

Education and a closer relationship with local stakeholders can help
understanding the relevance of these issues. ISOC with a coordinated work
with its chapters must become a trusted source of information for policy
makers which gives tools for developing policies for an open and trusted
Internet.

For that, ISOC should partner the local chapter in order to help the local
community, ISOC must find in the local chapter the key to the local
community.

ISOC must keep on working towards becoming a global and trusted
organization, and this includes having a balanced Board in relation with
regions and gender representation.
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