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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=ES-TRAD
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Just to give some basic information about myself, hoping to
make the IGC co-coordinator elections an open and dynamic process as per Ian’s
request, I am including a short bio.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Virginia (Ginger) Paque was born in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>, but has lived in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region> for
the past +30 years. An educator and administrator by profession, she has 25
years experience in business and manufacturing systems consulting. She is a
board member of the United Nations Association of Venezuela and her work as the
Venezuelan member of the World Federation of United Nations Associations Task
Force on WSIS (starting in 2003) brought her into the world of Internet
Governance during the PrepComs. She is a member of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region>
chapter of ISOC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p dir=LTR><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>Currently, an important priority is her work with Diplo Foundation for
the Internet Governance Capacity Building Program, in particular the multilingual
possibilities for digital education and the Spanish-English bilingual section
of the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programmed in particular. She also
coordinates and facilitates a series of online Spanish language Human Rights
courses for lawyers and other professionals. Two areas of particular interest
are Spanish language online educational projects and the research and
monitoring of e-voting as a controversial but inevitable development. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p dir=LTR><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>She is a member of the IGF Remote Participation Working Group, the
Gender DC, the Digital Education DC, and the IBR DC. She is also interested in
Net Neutrality as an IG issue. As examples of current work, she participated as
a panelist in the Net Neutrality Workshop (users’ viewpoint), the Digital
Education Workshop (educators’ viewpoint) and the Internet Governance
Capacity Building Best Practices Workshop at the IGF Hyderabad. She has little
formal experience as a moderator, and none as a mailing list coordinator. She
has handled moderator/facilitator activities in courses and panels such
as the Internet Voting debate held at the IGF Hyderabad in the <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Village Square</st1:address></st1:Street>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p dir=LTR><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>She practices tenor sax and classical piano, and plays with metalworking
and cooking in her free time as well. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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