<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Carolina,<br><br><br></div><div>Thanks for all the updates. I have being nominated for MAG 2016 and will be glad if i could be added to the list.<br><br></div><div>Find bellow brief description:<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">My name is Wisdom Donkor, 39
years of age and work with the National Information Technology Agency, Ghana as
a specialization engineer in E-government and infrastructure, Internet
Governance and Open Government Data, platforms and policies. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I holds the position of IT
Manager and Technical Lead person for Ghana Open Data Initiative Project and
also lecture part time at the Ghana Telecom University College (Centre for
Professional Development Unit). I was the immediate past Vice General Secretary
of the Internet Society Ghana Chapter and currently the National Secretariat
Manager of the Information Technology Association of Ghana (ITAG) and also
serve as the Secretary (ex-officio) to the Executive Management Committee of
which Prof Nii Quaynor is the Chair and President. I have being involve in the
IT Industry for over 10 years in areas of ICT Policy development, Internet
Governance, Open Government Data, Software Design and Development, Databases
and Consolidation, Open Source Software Technologies, Data Divide Privacy and
Security, Big Data and analytics, Data Management and technologies, and Human
Resource Planning and Development and also consult to many local organisations
and has contributed to several ICT projects across Ghana and Abroad.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I am a very passionate advocate
for free open Internet, open government data and open source software
technologies. Besides, I have been associated with ICANN as Fellow, coach
(mentor) and ICANN Information Booth Lead and Support Staff since ICANN
49,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and have gotten fellowship for 4
meetings out of the last 7 meetings held (ICANN 49, 52, and 54, 55). I have
participated, attended and contributed to several Local and international
programs such as IGF, ISOC, IETF, ITU, World Bank, The Growth Net of India,
USAID, UNDP, Africa Open Data Conference, International Open Data Conference
and West Africa Telecommunications Regulators Assembly (WTRA). </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I am an active member of the Open
Government Data Working Group, World Bank Africa Open Data working Team, Non
Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG), Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Internet
Society (ISOC), Diplo Foundation, Global Open Data for Agriculture and
Nutrition (GODAN), Ghana IGF Steering Committee, Ghana Open Government
Partnership Steering Committee, Linux Accra User Group and does follows several
internet governance and Open government data online and mailing list
discussions.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I have help and organize several
workshop programs on Internet governance related issues, Open Government Data and
community engagement development and incubation, Cyber Security and Online
Child protection, including the IANA Stewardship transition, ICANN community
engagement of which the ICANN Vice President for Africa Pierre Dandjinou and
Yaovi Atohoun on several occasion took part. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I was one of organisers at the
2015 IGF Workshop in Joao Pessoa, Brazil on the topic Internet Governance and
Open Government Data Initiative of which the report is readily available on the
IGF website. The reason for this workshop was to bring to the attention of IGF,
Policy Makers and the general public the linkages between Internet governance
and Open Government Data of which policy makers should start considering in the
formulation of internet and open data related policies that will help to large
extent in the achievement of the Sustainable development goals (SDG’s) adopted
by the United Nations.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I am currently the founder of the
newly formed African Open Data and Internet Governance Research Foundation
Institute and hope to use this foundation through research to bring to the bear
some of the issues and what policy makers are missing.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">I hope with my nomination, I will
bring to bear some of the issues hindering the development of Africa in
relation to sustainable job creation and how Internet governance and open
government data<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>can help bridge that
gap.</p>
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Thanks<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small">WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)<br></div><div style="font-size:small">ICANN Fellow / ISOC Member<br></div><span style="font-size:small">Web/OGPL Portal Specialist</span></div><div><div style="font-size:small"><div>National Information Technology Agency (NITA) <br></div><div>Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI)</div><div>Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana</div><div>Tel; +233 20 812881</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:wisdom_dk@hotmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">wisdom_dk@hotmail.com</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">wisdom.donkor@data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>Skype: wisdom_dk</div><div>facebook: facebook@wisdom_dk<br></div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.nita.gov.gh/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.nita.gov.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.data.gov.gh/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.data.gov.gh</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.isoc.gh/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.isoc.gh</a> / <a href="http://www.itag.org.gh/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.itag.org.gh</a> <br></div></div></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Carolina Rossini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com" target="_blank">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It would be great if previous MAG CS members shared their experience here and also how "hard" or not MAG can be. And how much they were actually able to influence in the decisions. That could help people decide their votes. <div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Miguel Ignacio Estrada <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miestrada@gmail.com" target="_blank">miestrada@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">+1 for all the candidates, +10 for Renata, I love everything she is doing for her community and the region</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Burcu Kilic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkilic@citizen.org" target="_blank">bkilic@citizen.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I guess Nadira missed my endorsements. +1 for the three candidates - particularly +++++ 1 for Jeremy
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nadira Alaraj<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 25, 2016 10:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" target="_blank">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [bestbits] Short listing proposal of candidates to CSCG for MAG2016<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear BestBits members,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to thank all of you who took part in showing your interest and those who endorsed, to the candidacy of MAG2016.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Below is a summary of the correspondences on this regards.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As per requested by the CSCG to submit a maximum of 3 names and per the results of your endorsements. I would like to pass to the CSCG the names of the first three on the list below
because the 4th on this list got minimal endorsements. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I appreciate if you have any other opinion, please let me know in couple of hours before sending my recommendations by the end of the day in my time zone which will be 10PM UTC.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Endorsement with comments by Marilia Maciel<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+1 endorsements<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jeremy Malcolm<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(USA)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Interest date: Jan 4)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+1 to Jeremy, publicly thanking you for all the work you have put in the evaluation sheets this year. It would be of great importance to have Jeremy on the MAG to strengthen its outcome-oriented feature.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ephraim Percy Kenyanito,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Becky Lentz,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">João Carlos R. Caribé,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Carolina Rossini<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>off-list</b>: 2<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Renata Aquino Ribeiro<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Brazil)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Interest date: Jan 5)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+1 to Renata, who has been such an active and vocal member of our Brazilian IG community and a contributor to global debates in ICANN and IGF. Her academic expertise can be very useful to the group. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ephraim Percy Kenyanito,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Becky Lentz,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">João Carlos R. Caribé,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Carolina Rossini,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nathalia Foditsch<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>off-list</b>:1<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Deirdre Williams<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Santa Lucia)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Interest date: Jan 12)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">+1 to Deirdre who has a tremendous experience in IG issues acquired throughout the years, always showing in her positions a deep concern with the "human" aspect of our discussions and with the end user. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ephraim Percy Kenyanito,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Becky Lentz,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">João Carlos R. Caribé,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Carolina Rossini<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>off-list</b>:2<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Fiji)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Interest date: Jan 22)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></p>
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