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<font face="Verdana">Dear all, I apologize for re-sending this
email, but I do not see it on the ICG archive list. </font>Please
review carefully (below) and send any corrections, additions or
comments. We should also start the process of discussion to decide
on final speaker suggestions (2) so the Secretariat can choose the
final two, one for opening, one for closing.<br>
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Best, Ginger<br>
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<td>Re: [governance] CS speaker suggestions for the opening
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<td>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:59:09 -0430</td>
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<td>Ginger Paque <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com"><gpaque@gmail.com></a></td>
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<td>Chad Lubelsky <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chad@apc.org"><chad@apc.org></a></td>
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<font face="Verdana">IGC nominations for CS speakers have now been
open for one week. I ask than any final nominations be made within
the next 24 hours. If your nomination must be delayed longer than
that, but you would like it to be included, please let me know by
private email during those same 24 hours. Thanks! Best, ginger<br>
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Current list of nominees.<br>
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Fouad Bajwa (confirmed)<br>
</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:
separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style:
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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 (confirmed)<br>
Co-coordinators (Jeremy/Ginger) (in discussion)<br>
Karen Banks (unconfirmed)<br>
Ben Akoh (unconfirmed)<br>
Katitza Rodriguez (unconfirmed)<br>
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On 8/24/2010 2:53 PM, Chad Lubelsky wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:90D5F0CC-9A40-4DB9-8AA0-8490FADD78A8@apc.org"
type="cite">Hi everyone,
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<div>APC would like to nominate the following individuals.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Chad</div>
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<div>--</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Europe:</span></div>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="3"><b>Karen Banks</b></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Africa</b>: </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Fatimata Seye Sylla</b> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Ben Akoh</b> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Asia</b>:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="3"><b>Parminder Jeet Singh</b> </font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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
moz-do-not-send="true" 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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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
moz-do-not-send="true" 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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif;"><b>LAC</b>:</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Katitza Rodríguez</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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 style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Arial,sans-serif;"><b>Valeria Betancourt</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="LEFT"><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>
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<div>On 23-Aug-10, at 6:46 PM, Ginger Paque wrote:</div>
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<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>
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If there are any other nominations, please do post as
soon as possible. Thanks!<br>
<br>
Fouad Bajwa (confirmed)<br>
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medium;">Fatimata Seye Sylla (confirmed)</span><br>
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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;
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font-size: medium;"> (confirmed)</span><br>
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font-size: medium;">Wolfgang Kleinwachter</span><span
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separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;
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font-size: medium;"> (confirmed)</span><br>
Parminder (not yet confirmed)<br>
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<div>Chad Lubelsky - Global networking, policy and
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Montreal, Canada<br>
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