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

Sun Apr 10 12:55:40 PDT 2016

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On 10 Apr 2016, at 12:51, Eduardo Diaz wrote:

> Mohamed:
>
> You may hit a wall here if you get elected to the BOT. In yesterday's
> meeting, Mr. Hinden implied that he does not trust the mailing list to 
> be a
> good barometer of ISOC chapters and issues (my own words here) mainly
> because the people using it are the same people all the time. However, 
> he
> will trust that the voice of all the chapters will come through the
> Advisory Board (AB). I suggest to give the AB all the resources they 
> need
> to become very effective in bringing chapter issues and then help the
> chapters by working with other BOT members in resolving them.
>
> -ed
> ISOC Puerto Rico
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:10 PM Mohamed El Bashir <mbashir at isoc.sd> 
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Leah for the question :
>>
>> As this board seat is elected by the chapters, I believe its 
>> important to
>> have an open communication channel with the chapters 
>> delegates/leaders, the
>> selected BoT member should be able to raise the chapters issues and
>> concerns to ISOC's board attention.
>>
>> This interaction could by achived by using different approaches, an
>> example on a bottom up approach is using the mailing list as a good 
>> tool to
>> get the chapters concerns and issues and then raise it at board 
>> level, a
>> top-down approach approach could be sending regular updates ( e.g 
>> using
>> mailing list and/or other platform ) on specific debated policy 
>> issues at
>> BoT level for the chapters feedback and comments.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Mohamed
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2016, at 2:49 AM, Leah Symekher <leahs at isc.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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