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Pastor Peters OMORAGBON |
Ken Lohento |
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Statements:
I work at the Media@mcgill research centre and am completing a PhD at the Université of Montréal. My research focuses on both Internet Governance issues and the role of Civil Society in Global Governance. I have been involved with the IGC since 2003 and hav tried earn my keep by taking on roles that help facilitate its day-to-day activities and its continued sustainable organizational development. At the same time, I have not been a particularly active player in the debates over its substantive policy positions- something that I think is important for the appeals team. I have a professional background working in online policy consultation in both Canada and the UK and would sit on the appeals team with an unambiguous mandate that the interests of the IGC come before any specific individual or policy agenda as well as a clear idea about the role played in establishing these interests by consultation and dialogue amongst the community.
Region: North America
Profession: Academic
Membership affiliation in IGC: As individual
Working Languages: English/ French
Particularly interested in fostering development with the use of ICT, I have civil society and grassroots participation as goal. Having been involved in the IGC through both phases of the WSIS, I believe that one challenge of the caucus will be to maintain an objective role in the issues that follow Tunis. In drafting the Charter, the role of the Appeals Team became fundamental to us in the maintenance of the nature of the IGC. So I do agree that accepting nomination to the Team involves dialogue, consultaiton, community values and no personal interests.
My professional background is International Relations, Law and Policy processes. My region is Africa.
My full name is Nnenna Nwakanma
Several of you might remember meeting me at the WSIS Geneva Prepcom or the WSIS Tunis or at the IG Conference of DIPLO in Malta.
I am an ICT Consultant residing in New Delhi, India doing advocacy, policy,regulatory and legal assignments globally. I am well connected with the ICT Community in India (especially the industry, academia and the NGOs). My multidisciplinary qualifications and exposure has facilitated me in working on various assignments and projects related to development of Internet in India. I have worked on the Policy, legal and technical issues of the Internet.
I am the Country Co-ordinator of the GIPI project (Global Internet Policy Initiative) which has the objective of improving Internet Penetration; especially in the developing countries, through Policy and Legal Reforms by involoving the stakeholders in India for Policy Consultations. I have been involved in the Internet policy reforms in India, especially concerning Legalising Internet Telephony, Opening up of the Wireless Internet etc.
I been associated with Internet Advocacy and Research projects for ISOC, The ResPUBLICA, DIPLO Foundation, Malta, Center for Communications Law & Policy Research, Internews, APNIC, APC, Computer Society of India, APDIP, ISP Association of India, National Internet Exchange of India etc. In association with the APC (Association for Proressive Communications), I organised the first "ICT Policy Workshop for the Civil Society in the South Asia"
I have been a founding member and director of National Internet Exchange of India and .IN ccTLD Registry. I have also represented on several committees on behalf of the Civil Society.
I have been recently elected as Treasurer, Computer Society of India.
Because of my analytical skills, technical knowledge and excellent communication skills I consider myself as an effective and efficient candidate for the IGC Appeals team. I do not come with a specific agenda or mind frame to the Appeals team. I am of the firm belief that any ICT policy and governance should be made through effective, transparent and unbiased consultations with the Community . I stronlgy advocate the representation of the Asian region in all the international policy making processes and that is true for Internet also. My motivation for nomination in IGC Appeals Team is also representing the point of view of the Asian Internet Community in the global policy development.
You can read more about me at http://www.connect-world.com/Articles/2006/AP_I-11-RishiChawla.htm and also at www.wgig.org/docs/Bio-Chawla.htm
I am a professor for Internet Policy & Regulation at the University of Aarhus in Denmark since 1998. Before that I had teaching positions at the University of Leipzig (until 1991), the University of Tampere (1992/1993) and the American Uniersity in Washington, D.C. (1993/1995). >From 1995 to 1998 I chaired the Interregional Information Society Initiative (IRISI) of the European Commission in Bruessel. Since 1998 I am deeply involved both in in ICANN and WSIS. I was a member of ICANN´s Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF) in 2000. In 2002 I co-created and co-chaired the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus in WSIS. I was a member of the WSIS civil society Bureau (2002 - 2005). >From 2004 to 2005 I was a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). At the moment I am a member of ICANN´s Nominating Committee (NomCom) and a Special Advsider to the Chair of the Internet Governance Forum. I am also a member of the Panel of High Level expoerts of the Global Alliance for iCT & sdevelopment. I always worked towards a broader involvement of civil society and NGOs in global policy development, in particular with regard to the Internet. I am also a co-fopunder of the Global Internet Governance Academic network (GIGANET).
Region: Europe
Profession: Academic
Membership affiliation in IGC: As individual
Working Languages: English/ German
I am happy to stand as a candidate for the Appeals Team. I think that the more people willing to stand for the AT team, the better. I also hope, and expect, that the AT up being a team that rarely needs to do anything, since I expect that the ability to appeal will mostly obviate the need to appeal.
If the Appeals Team is activated on any issue, I certainly commit myself to dialogue and consultation with the community on any issue under review. I also commit myself to tracking the activities of the IGC closely, so that I will be well informed on the activities of the IGC.
In terms of employment, I am an itinerant researcher who works primarily on developing technology that can be used in remote communications challenged areas. I also make ends meet by taking various consultant contracts in industry when necessary. While I currently live in the US, I am affiliated with Luleå University in Sweden as a research consultant.
Believing as I do that it is important for all who play a role in any organization to state any outside interests that may color their perception of issues, I think the following may be relevant:
I am a nomcom appointed member of the ICANN GNSO council. This group is responsible for discussing and recommending policy on gTLDs. As a member of the council, I also act as interim chair of the Task force concerned with registry contract renewal conditions and am a member of various working groups and task forces on issues such as policy for new TLDs, IDN policy and whois.
I am occasionally employed as a consultant to the secretariat of the IGF. This usually occurs around the time of public meetings of the IGF.
I serve as a member of the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG) due to my role as chair of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Routing Research Group. This group reports to the IAB.
I am a member of the APC Women's Networking Support Program (apc wnsp) and a founding member of Nomadic Women's ICT Network (NWIN), a new NGO involved in creating ICT access and governance opportunities for nomadic populations.
Some of you met me in Athens. I have been involved in IG since joining the boards of ISOC-AU in 2001 and the Western Australian Internet Association in 2000 (though I don't toe the ISOC party line on the IGF).
I also chair a co-regulatory taskforce that drafted the Australian Internet Industry Spam Code last year, since registered with the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
I have completed four chapters of a PhD thesis on the IGF which is at http://www.malcolm.id.au/thesis/, and before that I was a self-employed specialist IT lawyer and IT consultant. I'm managing another IT business on a part-time basis while I'm studying.
I am about to launch, with some other interested parties, an Online Collaboration Dynamic Coalition, and have just finished off a draft Web site for it at http://igf2006.info/wiki/IGF-OCDC. I also run the http://igfwatch.org/ site.
I've previously been on the committees of some other civil society Internet organisations including the Australian Public Access Network Association and Electronic Frontiers Australia, as well some more general IT associations such as the Society of Linux Professionals WA and the WA Society for Computers and the Law.
Off the top of my head, a few of my beliefs are:
* "Governments will never agree to it" is no excuse
* DNS is not the most important IG issue
* Transnational public policy issues are no longer the sole province
of governments
* Process is key, because it shapes expectations and power relations
* A key factor in making the IGF more accessible is to make online
participation equivalent to attendance in person
* The structure of an Internet governance organisation should reflect
the cultural values of the Internet
My full resume is at http://www.malcolm.id.au/files/documents/personal/resume.pdf, but if anyone has any questions feel free to ask me.
For my self nomination I would like to refer to my profile on the PIR.org site at http://www.pir.org/AboutPIR/CouncilMembers.aspx#dkissoondoyal
I am an associate of the Chartered Management Institute of the United Kingdom. Although I am employed as the Information Technology Director at Teleforma Mauritius Ltd (a U.S. UPSTREAM offshore company in Mauritius), I am very much involved with the affairs of the Internet Society Chapter of Mauritius. In fact, I am the founder, President and Chairman of the Internet Society of Mauritius. My primary objective as President is the promotion of the Internet and associated technologies. Under my chairmanship, the Internet Society Chapter of Mauritius was nominated as one of the three finalists in 2002 and 2004 for the e-Achievers Award on the African continent. This award goes to an African institution or company that promotes e-enablement within Africa.
I have always been involved in noncommercial and volunteer activities. I have been a member of Save the Children Mauritius and have held positions of Secretary, Treasurer and President (CEO). I also was nominated for my works in a noncommercial environment as one of the three finalists for Most Outstanding Young Person of the Year in 1996 and in 2003 for the Republic of Mauritius (by the Jeune Chambre Economique de L’ile Maurice, an affiliate of Junior Chamber International). I am very much involved in Internet Policies and have been one of the ambassadors of the Internet Society for the World Summit on the Information Society.
So far the Internet Governance Caucus group process and the Governance list discussions have been amicable - an appeals team member will only be needed when they aren't.
I've used listening and process skills when chairing the International Disability Caucus and several California boards, as well as when administering email lists.
I have some UN experience developed during five years of work with the AdHoc Committee which led to the December 2006 adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
I'm a full-time volunteer, have no financial interest, do have a strong bias towards transparency, level field, inclusion, access for all. In particular, developing connections by using email changed my life from fringe outsider to articulate spokesperson. I am the International Disability Alliance (ICT) Technical Expert, serve as a liaison between those disability interests and this work, read my email regularly.
I attended both WSIS meetings, the Athens IGF, voted for the charter, have been a subscriber to this list for a while, have plans to go to Rio.
Sylvia Caras, PhD
Santa Cruz, California, USA
APPLICATION TO APPEALS TEAM
REPRESENTING OLDER WOMEN IN THE FIELD
(HERE, CONTINUOSLY SINCE 1950'S ).
I. Foreground Application and re prior and present contexts.
I have the honor and pleasure to apply for the IGF Appeals Team or other functions in IGF as an older woman who has been a systems builder, professor, programmer and author, as well as user of computers for 50 years. In multi-disciplinary venues, emphasis has been on integrating / interconnecting / interfacing and when possible 'balancing' the interests of diverse stakeholders, or actors, in varied fora, which in addition to directly ICT activities has included the taking of formal appeals in legal and court contexts concerning cyber-interactions. This activity consistently involves acknowledging different sorts of interests of different sorts of (here) netizens and indeed cultures, groups, and individuals broadly, striving for clear conversations and a shared sense of fairness.
My work at the United Nations is now gathered under the *Respectful Interfaces* Programme of the Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations (CCC/UN), of which I am an Officer and serve on the Board, while representing other organizations and causes as well at the U.N.
I hope that having on the team a person present throughout the very interesting eras of computers coming into society over a half century will merge well with the varied types of expertise so valued in the IGF and civil society at large. I am very much interested in issues which arise when even though high interest, industry, and application of effort has culminated in decision making, there still may be issue-spotting opportunities through opportunities of "appeal," so that all voices are heard and where feasible decisions can be revisited and retuned both for justice and pragmatic progress.
I hope that in addition to computing, education, and arts in background and foreground, my legal work in the appeal area from lower to highest courts especially regarding rights and duties in cyberspace will bring some different perspectives as well; I am still active in these fields on policy and practice bases. I have keen interest in human rights issues and e-activity including intersections of 'freedom of expression' with other actor concerns for example in contexts of 'online defamation' and other individual-and-group-impacting CybeTorts inclusively.
I participated on-site as well as online in WSIS (Geneva and Tunis) and IF-I Athens, where I both formally and informally presented on and discussed multi-stakeholder dialogue from the perspective of * The Respectful Interfaces Programme* at the U.N. As a side-note, my own difficulties navigating some of these physical territories for a person with mobility disabilities might even have a bearing on issues of inclusiveness and foresight so far as Rio and other future venues are concerned and such issues could rise to matters of appeal and review in the IGF.
II. Extended (More Detailed) Background for NOMCOM Committee.
In the 1950's computers were coming and as a society we had to adjust from multi-stakeholder perspectives. How would computers affect the Sciences and the Arts, and their interactions?
In the 1960's, I completed joint doctorates in computing and humanities, published and participated within ARPANet contours, and innovated / invented methods of literary and linguistic studies, bridging at that time very diverse communities with varying goals and modes of access and anticipating text and document management in future legal, medical, and other fields of "IT" purpose driven applications. I also served as Research Associate in fields of Electronic Medical Record Management, forerunner of present systems so burgeoning today and presenting copious ethical issues as well as technical ones. My Context Concordance to Paradise Lost on 'inter-actor' Social Network basis was consulted in the setting up of now well known Bible Concordances.
In the 1970's, I first taught computing in education, medicine, law, psychology, literature, and other fields at the college and university level. In industry I had and completed the assignment to design, code, implement, document, and maintain the first "markup tags" for GML, forerunner of HTML for web design; we also had versions of xml like systems; our purpose was to provide meanings-based as contrasted to local formatting-based tools for publication.
In this period, I began to participate in legal fora involving computers and social impact, taking early internet related cases to the U.S. Supreme Court including in the new areas of Cybertorts (coinage) and varied issues on 'rights and duties' in electronic domains, performing the legal and social research, writing and submitting collaboratively with others, and serving in community support groups for people going through courts – a multi-actor venue of renown. During the period my pain disabilities brought me into multiple communities of support online as well as in-person collaboration.
In the 1990's, I was engaged in human rights areas of computer applications still as analyst, programmer, and educator And as the research assistant while in law school, for Blaine Sloan's 1991 seminal text United Nations General Assembly Resolutions in Our Changing World (Transnational Press) I worked through the legal department at U.N. Headquarters and now have returned there in civil society mode.
In this new century I have served on the Steering Committee of the International Disability Caucus for the Convention on Rights of Persons With Disabilities (representing the "Coordination of Singular Organizations on Disability" (CSPD) – as well as founding Persons with Pain Intl. (PWPI)), participated in WSIS (Geneva, Tunis) and IFG (Athens). I am documenting a half century in computing presently, the adventures, the waves of social and cultural advances and multiple issues of universal access and participation, and inviting others to submit mini chapters on their own experiences. I serve as Officer and Board Member of The Communications Coordination for the U.N., represent the U.S. Burn Support Organization, am appointed Communications Coordinator of the World Democracy Movement, and serve on Education, Disability, Rights, and Planning Committees at the U.N. in New York as well as continuing to liaise with other NGOs affiliated with the U.N. and elsewhere. I maintain a keen interest in human rights issues and ICT, and applications of traditional legal concepts and remedies to the realms of cyberspace, and at large, emphasizing inclusion and rich network principles and hands-on practice.
III. Selected Multi-Disciplinary Documentary-Addenda (with currently active URLS) :
A. (historical review pro tem, email): linda@2007ismy50thyearincomputingandIamawoman.COM = contact email address re project being developed to encourage other women and people in general to interconnect, share their stories. Part of account only is re ldmf; other Parts are re, Others). Respectful_interfaces@gmail.com , ldmisekfalkoff@gmail.com , and secretary@cccu.org are other e-addys.
B. Some referencing website URLS presently:
Early Professorial Mentoring:
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED110094&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b800fa132 " From Poetry to Politics: Vassar Freshmen Concord Watergate ."
Software Engineering and Systems Design:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800504&dl=ACM&coll=portal&CFID=11111111&CFTOKEN=2222222 " The new field of "Software Linguistics": An early-bird view (itself has cites to other publications, ARPANet forward) ."
Chairing of Conferences, etc.:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800508 "A unification of Halstead's Software Science counting rules for programs and English text, and a claim space approach to extensions Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems".
http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=Portal&dl=Portal&CFID=12779189&CFTOKEN=57882922 (LDMF Co-Chair). SCORE82: Software Metrics Intl. Conference.
Electronic Publication Field, Discourse and Text Analysis and Synthesis:
http://comppile.tamucc.edu/RWPN/rwpn5.5pp14-27.pdf "Computing Text Mark-Up and Speech Acts. Architecture of Publication tagging, early forecast of xml like user entry point systems" .
http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1041391&idx=J958&type=issue&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&part=journal&WantType=Journals&title=ACM%20SIGLASH " CONCORDIAD" verse documenting state of art of literary data processing, social perspectives, state(s) of the art(s).
http://www.springerlink.com/content/16x0m4j72l043kg8/ LDM, Context Concordance to Paradise Lost (social network, multi-actor network analysis).
Computing and Law / Society / Values:
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-pct/2005-December/001054.html CYBERTORTS AND JURISDICTION.
Artificial Intelligence, cited in content and for programming of publication markup systems:
http://suo.ieee.org/suo-kif/msg00029.html John Sowa's Conceptual Structures, Addison Wesley, Scientific Series .
Decisional Research done at United Nations with Legal Department in Conjunction with Law School and seminal text of esteemed Professor Blaine Sloan, 35 years at the U.N.:
http://www.transnationalpubs.com/showbook.cfm?bookid=10148 United Nations General Assembly Resolutions in Our Changing World, Transnational Press (ldmf among acknowledgments; follow ups in progress).
Participation in Human Rights Treaty Meetings and Formulations in person and online:
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/ahc7sideevents.htm Onsite and elsewhere in whole sequence of AdHoc and related Meetings, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; non-formal graphic archivalist, member Steering Committee of The International Disability Caucus, participant in various aspects of ACCESS issues .
http://www.cardfountain.com/ecards/photo-cards/index.php?pid=1065419-0&pu=1
Poster, Madrid , Spain Resolution - International Disability Caucus Convening.
*Respectful Interfaces* Programme of The Communications Coordination Committee For the United Nations (NGO):
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22respectful+Interfaces%22&num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&rls=HPIA,HPIA:2006-30,HPIA:en&filter=0 Google 'moving target' - examples.
Rights-based and societal values based topics:
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-pct/2005-December/001054.html Example re Cyber-Torts.
General computer law reference illustration:
http://mishpat.net/cyberlaw/archive/cyberlaw57.shtml Professional cross-referencing.
RECOMMENDATIONS etc. re Internet Governance Bodies:
http://www.wsis-cs.org/igfnominees.shtml?slice_id=3e640adb2506b8421b3f31232657571b&sh_itm=74e13b9344ccc967de34c41711c1bfa7 ICT Panel / Board Candidacy illustration .
DATA BASE AND QUERY SYSTEMS, including "relational":
http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=Portal&dl=Portal&CFID=12779189&CFTOKEN=57882922 "Data Base and Query Systems: New and Simple Ways to Gain Multiple Views of the Patterns in Text. "
WSIS-II / SMSI (Thus) Paper and In Person Presentation re importance of multi-stakeholder participation in all phases of ICT and broadly:
http://www.dinf.ne.jp/doc/english/prompt/051115_18wsis.html
"The Joyous Imperatives of R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Both as a Theme and a Tool or Technology for Full Multi-Stakeholder Inclusion in Information and Communication Networks Both Now and in the Future. Highlighting the Key Roles of Persons with Disabilities in Collaborative Contexts World-Wide."
Present Planning and Organizational Functions:
http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10241
I have experience of dealing with adjudication issues from my work with the South African regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), where I led a complaints committee that dealt with telecom and internet related complaints. I understand the requirement to apply ones mind independently to any issue subject to appeal with due impartiality.