<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>APC would like to nominate the following individuals.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Chad</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; ">Europe:</span></div><div><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>Karen Banks</b></font></font></font></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3">Karen is the manager of APC's strategic technologies and network development programme. She is a Director of GreenNet, a small non-profit ISP in London, and founding member of the Association for Progressive Communications. In 1993, she formed (along with other women colleagues from the APC) the APC Women's Networking Support Programme. In 1995, APC WNSP led an all women team of 40 to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, where they provided email and web access to over 10,000 delegates. With other women's rights groups, the APC WNSP also successfully lobbied for the inclusion of 'Media and Communications' as a new chapter in the Beijing Platform for Action – the first global intergovernmental policy reference the importance of women's rights to access new technologies. Karen coordinated the APC WNSP from 1996 to 2004. Since 2004, Karen has managed various national, regional and global ICT policy advocacy and capacity building projects and processes for APC. This included coordination of APC's participation in the WSIS (World Summit in the Information Society), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and OECD meetings. She is currently a trustee of Privacy International (an international privacy rights and civil liberties watchdog based in the UK), was a member of the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and was awarded the Anita Borg Social Impact Award with the APCWNSP in 2004.</font></font></font></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><b>Africa</b>: </span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><b>Fatimata Seye Sylla</b> </span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Fatimata Seye Sylla holds a Master of Science from the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a DUT in Computer Science from IUT du Havre in France, a Certificate of Business Administration from CESAG, Dakar, the regional management school for Africa.</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">After several years of experience in the field of ICT for development in Africa, she is now the National Coordinator of the USAID/EDB project, in charge of the integration of ICTs in teaching/learning practices in Middle Schools for quality education in Senegal.</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Madam Sylla is the author of several publications and studies in the fields of ICT, Education, gender and development, ICT and democracy and Internet Governance. She is a founder member of several associations (ISOC Senegal, OSIRIS, FOSSFA, ACSIS, REGENTIC, Bokk Jang). She was nominated member of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ICANN ALAC) on November 2007 and also elected President of the African Regional At-Large Organisation (AFRALO) in 2009.</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Fatimata participated actively in the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) since the first PrepCom of its first phase. She also participated in all the IGF editions at the national, regional and international levels.</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><b>Ben Akoh</b> </span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span class="cf_text">Ben Akoh works as a Project Manager with IISD’s Global Connectivity program. His duties include research, policy analysis, recommendations and capacity building on the development and deployment of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the Internet pertaining to their role in supporting sustainable development nationally and internationally. His recent positions have included Program Manager, ICT/Media, Open Society Initiative for West Africa (Soros Foundation) in Dakar, Senegal. </span></font></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><b>Asia</b>:</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>Parminder Jeet Singh</b> </font></font></font></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3">Parminder Jeet Singh is the Executive Director of IT for Change – a Bangalore based NGO (</font></font></font><a href="http://www.ITforChange.net/"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u>www.ITforChange.net</u></font></font></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3">), which works on information society issues from the stand point of equity and social justice. IT for Change is involved in research, advocacy and field projects, and works from global to national to local levels.</font></font></font></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3">Parminder Jeet Singh has worked for close to a decade with the government of India. This has helped him develop a good understand of Indian governance and political systems. He also designed and led some important e-governance projects during this stint. He was invited to INSEAD business school in France to work on a research project looking at the promise of the Internet for community driven governance reform. He co-authored a book </font></font></font><a href="mailto:%27Government@Net"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u>'Government@Net</u></font></font></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="3">: New Governance Opportunities for India' (Sage Publications 2002) .</font></font></font></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">He later worked in a consultancy capacity with NGOs on ICT for development and e-governance before becoming associated with IT for Change in 2003. At IT for Change, he leads its field activity done through the Centre for Community Informatics and Development. He is also the coordinator of the research and advocacy project 'Information Society for the South'. He has authored numerous papers on ICTs for development, e-governance and the political economy of information society.</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Parminder has been the Coordinator of Civil Society Internet Governance Forum. At present is a Special Advisor to the Chair of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum, and a member of the Strategy Council of the Global Alliance on ICTs and Development. He is also in advisory groups of a couple of global civil society initiatives in the area of information society.</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><b>LAC</b>:</span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><b>Katitza Rodríguez</b></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Peruvian based in San Francisco, Katitza is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's International Rights Director. In this capacity she concentrates on comparative policy and legal analysis of international privacy issues, with special emphasis on law enforcement, government surveillance, and cross border data flows. Her work in EFF's International Program also focuses on cybersecurity at the intersection of privacy, freedom of expression, and copyright enforcement. Before joining EFF, Katitza was Director of the international privacy program at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington D.C., where amongst other things, she served as the Research Director of The Privacy and Human Rights Report, an international survey of privacy law and developments in 78 countries, and she served as the civil society liaison while at EPIC from 2009 to March 2010. </span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><b>Valeria Betancourt</b></span></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Activist in the field of ICTs for development and social justice. Her work with the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has focused on ICT policies and internet rights in the context of development countries in Latin America. She has concentrated in facilitating engagement of civil society organizations in ICT policy processes. Her efforts are centered around regionalizing the IGF process by promoting a regional platform for policy dialogue among different stakeholders. Currently, Valeria is a member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group and has a seat as civil society observer in the eLAC coordination board. Valeria has a background in Sociology and Political Science and holds a Masters Degree in Cultural Studies and Communication.</span></p></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 23-Aug-10, at 6:46 PM, Ginger Paque wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="Verdana">As of now, I have the following list in order of nomination--please correct if there are any errors, and start thinking about narrowing the list to 4 suggestions that we will send to the Secretariat. I apologize for the previous error in omitting Fouad, who was our first nomination. <br> <br> If there are any other nominations, please do post as soon as possible. Thanks!<br> <br> Fouad Bajwa (confirmed)<br> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">Fatimata Seye Sylla (confirmed)</span><br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">Valeria Betancourt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"> (confirmed)</span><br> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;">Wolfgang Kleinwachter</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"> (confirmed)</span><br> Parminder (not yet confirmed)<br> <br> Best, Ginger<br> <font face="Verdana"><br> </font><br></div></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; ">----</p><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Chad Lubelsky - Global networking, policy and advocacy coordinator</div><div>Association for Progressive Communications<br>Montreal, Canada<br><a href="mailto:d@apc.org">chad@apc.org</a> - +1 514 603 3382</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br></div><div>APC 1990-2010 <a href="http://www.apc.org/">www.apc.org</a><br>Thank you for helping make APC what it is today!<br>¡Gracias por hacer de APC lo que es hoy!<br>Merci d'avoir contribué à faire d'APC ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui!</div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>