[EURO-Discuss] EURALO elections - SoI

Fri May 22 10:19:15 UTC 2020

Dear all,

following Yrjo’s kind nomination, please let me take this opportunity to 
present my statement of interest in running for the EURALO ALAC seat in 
the coming term, for your kind consideration in the coming elections.

For those of you whom I have not yet had the chance to meet in person, 
please allow me for a brief introduction. In my day job I teach and 
research international law and internet governance at the University of 
Lodz in Poland (https://www.wpia.uni.lodz.pl/en). I am also a Scientific 
Committee member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency 
(https://fra.europa.eu/en/about-fra). Most recently I have been elected 
to chair (together with Folake Olagunju) the Advisory Board of the 
Global Forum for Cyber Expertise (https://thegfce.org/about-the-gfce/). 
Within ICANN I have had the opportunity to serve on the ALAC as 
appointed by the NomCom to represent European end users since 2018.

I currently serve as ALAC Vice Chair for Outreach and Engagement and 
co-chair (together with Alfredo Calderon) the Capacity Building Working 
Group within AtLarge. Since my appointment I have been extensively 
supporting the AtLarge leadership in advancing the community and 
implementing key takeaways from the AtLarge review, including during the 
recent ATLAS III Summit. Before joining the ALAC, I was twice an ICANN 
fellow (ICANN58 and ICANN60 where I also served as a Fellowship Coach) 
and a member of the NCUC. Working with ICANN's GSE team I have supported 
various events in Poland and beyond, just to mention the launch of 
Internet Academy Poland as well as a series of panels during the annual 
Computers and Data Privacy Conference in Brussels (CPDP).

If elected, I would like to keep working on building capacity within the 
AtLarge community with particular focus on promoting and advancing the 
leading role EURALO has been playing in its CB work. The current 
capacity building work within EURALO has allowed the AtLarge community 
to better understand end user interests and duly represent them. Among 
these numerous initiatives let me just note the rich array of IG Summer 
Schools we are hosting in the region, the successful EURODig and 
corresponding local events, spanning across the continent and, last but 
certainly not least, the varied and well informed group of European 
individual users that facilitates them. Through all of these and beyond 
EURALO has supported the ICANN community with well experienced and 
informed members as well as versatile policy perspectives. I want to 
keep working on advancing these efforts, with particular focus on my 
home region of Central and Eastern Europe. I appreciated the most recent 
opportunity to work together with eager, young EURALO members in Hungary 
organizing the first Hungarian IGF last year (https://igfhungary.hu/), I 
enjoyed working with GSE staff on showcasing ICANN’s work to my students 
(https://mlodziwlodzi.pl/wirtualny-miesiac-z-icann-na-wpia-ul/), while I 
highly appreciate the advice and skills shared by our experienced 
members, who have worked on similar events before (just to mention the 
long running series of highly successful IRIS 
conferenceshttps://www.univie.ac.at/RI/IRIS2020/ or our members 
involvement within Giganethttps://www.giga-net.org/ ). I have utterly 
enjoyed working in this quickly advancing community and, if given the 
opportunity, I would be eager to support EURALO’s position in the global 
AtLarge and ICANN community. I am particularly looking forward to 
welcoming those coming to Katowice this fall for the IGF 2020.

I view capacity building as the initial and necessary step toward 
efficient and well informed policy development. Steps already taken to 
achieve this aim are: the ongoing series of webinars, upcoming ICANN 
Learn courses and a repository of CB resources. For a detailed 
description of current and upcoming capacity building resources please 
kindly see 
here:https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Capacity+Building+and+Resources+Dashboard 
and 
here:https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/At-Large+Capacity+Building+Working+Group 
for the overall description of the work of the CBWG. As a side note: 
CBWG is always open to new volunteers! Feel free to reach out if you 
made it this far in reading my message and (still) want to join.

Further developing the tools referenced above will hopefully allow to do 
both: better understand and represent end user interests and initiate 
discussions on how to improve existing processes. I am convinced AtLarge 
is in the best position to serve as a capacity building and, 
effectively, informed policy development resource as it spans across the 
entire ICANN community, welcoming views from across regions and 
cultures. I view the AtLarge as a consensus building platform and a test 
bed for well informed, pragmatic policies for the entire ICANN 
community. EURALO has a unique experience to offer in this respect, as 
we come from a very limited geographical space that has managed to find 
feasible, consensus based solutions for peaceful and efficient 
coexistence. This is an example to be shred and duplicated globally and 
I would be honoured to be able to try and meet this aim.

For my official SOI please kindly see here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1otj9Hr24ghtDJEkzOOwQayomq5_SR01Q/view

and here 
https://icann.zoom.us/rec/play/tMUvIuihrDs3HtadsASDV6ArW465Jvis23Ma8_YIyxu2VCECZgalN7pHMeMfNVNmt6uGIXtCaRPUPrKU?autoplay=true 
for the recording from the last EURALO call where I was granted the 
opportunity to present it.

Thank you for your consideration.

Kind regards,

Joanna Kulesza

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Joanna Kulesza, PhD
University of Lodz,
Poland
ICANN ALAC Vice Chair
SOI: https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Joanna+Kulesza+SOI
TT: @KuleszaJ
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