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

Sun Apr 10 13:01:37 PDT 2016

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John More
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The Greater Washington DC Chapter 
       of the Internet Society
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> On Apr 10, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <crg at isoc-cr.org> wrote:
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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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