<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div>I would like to nominate myself for EURALO ALAC position to replace Veronica Cretu from Moldova. I think Internet users of Eastern Europe are underrepresented in ALAC and ICANN, and gender and regional balance is extremely important for effective functioning of global multistakeholder organization.<br></div><div>On other side, Eastern European users lack knowledge and understanding of ICANN activity and concept of multistakeholderism<font size="2"><font face="FreeSans, serif">, and I and my organization do our best to fill this gap.</font></font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif"><br><br>I
am founder and director of iNGO “European Media Platform” </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">with
head-quarter in Kyiv, Ukraine (since 2010). <br></font></div><font size="2">
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<font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">As
a j</font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">ournalist
and media expert in the past, I covered activity of the Council of
Europe and was the member of the Group of Specialists on Human Rights
in the Information Society (MC-S-IS) of the Council of Europe
Steering Committee on the media and new communication services
(CDMC). In 2006 I was invited by the Council of Europe as a
journalist to cover first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, and
saw huge potential of new (for me) domain – Internet Governance and
multistakeholderism. And in 2010 I initiated </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif"> IGF-UA and since that time I am a member of IGF-UA
Steering Committee (</font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">in
2016 we had IGF-UA VII with ICANN as co-organizer)</font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">. </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Actively
participate in</font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">
Southern-Eastern Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG) and
EuroDIG, organized several workshops at global IGF. </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Member
of Working Group on National and Regional Initiatives on Internet
Governance (NRIs).</font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif"></font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify">
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<font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">In
2010 my organization became At-Large structure, and I was elected as
EURALO Secretary </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">(for
two years).</font></p><font size="2">
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<font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Actively
participated in </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">ICANN
IDN Variant TLD Group of Experts (Cyrillic script), </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">
</font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">now
member of </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">ALAC
</font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Board
Member Selection Process Committee </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">(BMSPC),
EURALO Bylaws Taskforce WG and EURALO Task Force on ALS engagement. </font>
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</font><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font size="2"><font face="FreeSans, serif">Organizer of numerous remote hubs in Ukraine for ICANN meeting, EuroDIG and IGF. Organizer of Safer Internet Days in Ukraine.</font></font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif"> </font><br></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Participant
of NetMundial.</font></p><font size="2">
</font><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify">
<font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Member
of At-Large Councils at two Ukrainian governmental structures (State
Service of Special Communication and Protection of Information and
State Agency on e-government, which is responsible for Internet
governance issues in Ukraine). It was our achievement to activate Ukraine representation in GAC (our official representative in GAC will participate for the first time in ICANN meeting in person in Copenhagen).</font></p><font size="2"></font><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify">
<font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Founder
and organizer of international Forum “Media for Information
Society”, initiator of multistakeholder Working Group on
cybersecurity. </font>
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</font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify">
<font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">In
2009 I graduated European Summer School on Internet Governance in
Meissen, in 2010 participated in ICANN Fellowship Program. </font><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Graduated
Diplo Foundation Courses on Internet Governance.</font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">We pioneered to use the term of multistakeholderism in Ukrainian, and translated a lot of materials on Internet Governance into Ukrainian and Russian (among them - Olivier's analyses of WCIT and some articles of Wolfgang Kleinwachter). <br></font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">My priority in At-Large - to help post-soviet communities to understand multistakeholderism and ICANN and to help ICANN to understand us.</font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Hoping for your support,</font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Best regards,</font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="justify"><font size="2" face="FreeSans, serif">Oksana Prykhodko<br></font></p><p class="gmail-western" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" align="left">
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