<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Congratulations to Markus.<br>Full success in your new position.<br><br>Regards<br><div> </div>NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul<br>Burundi Youth Training Centre<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bytc.bi">www.bytc.bi</a></span><br>Tel : +257 79 981459<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De :</span></b> McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> governance@lists.cpsr.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Mer 19 janvier 2011, 16h 57min 41s<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> [governance]
Fwd: [ISOC] Global Internet Community Leader Joins Internet Society as VP for Public Policy<br></font><br>How about that! Congratulations Markus!<br><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<br>route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Greg Wood <<a ymailto="mailto:wood@isoc.org" href="mailto:wood@isoc.org">wood@isoc.org</a>><br>Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:40 PM<br>Subject: [ISOC] Global Internet Community Leader Joins Internet<br>Society as VP for Public Policy<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:isoc-members-announce@elists.isoc.org" href="mailto:isoc-members-announce@elists.isoc.org">isoc-members-announce@elists.isoc.org</a><br><br><br>GLOBAL INTERNET COMMUNITY LEADER JOINS INTERNET SOCIETY AS VP FOR PUBLIC POLICY<br><br>Markus Kummer takes on leadership role for global, regional and<br>national Internet
issues<br><br>GENEVA, SWITZERLAND and RESTON, VIRGINIA, USA - 19 January 2011 - An<br>internationally recognized leader in a broad range of Internet policy<br>issues will join the Internet Society as head of its public policy<br>department. As the Internet Society's Vice President of Public Policy,<br>Markus Kummer will advance key Internet Society policy positions on<br>issues such as privacy, cybersecurity, and network neutrality. Most<br>recently the Executive Coordinator of the Secretariat supporting the<br>United Nations' Internet Governance Forum, Kummer has extensive<br>experience with Internet policy at the global, regional, and national<br>levels.<br><br>"Markus' broad experience with and deep understanding of the key<br>policy issues facing the Internet will help ensure the Internet<br>Society has an even greater impact on issues critical to the<br>Internet's continued evolution as an open platform for innovation and<br>economic development,"
said Lynn St.Amour, the Internet Society's<br>President and CEO.<br><br>Before joining the United Nations in 2004, Kummer held the position of<br>eEnvoy for the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne. Mr. Kummer was a<br>member of the Swiss delegation during the first phase of the World<br>Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) where he chaired several<br>negotiating groups, including the group on Internet governance. He<br>went on to serve as the Executive Coordinator of the WSIS Working<br>Group on Internet Governance from 2004 to 2005. Before his involvement<br>with the WSIS, he served as a career diplomat in several functions in<br>the Swiss Foreign Ministry and was posted in Lisbon, Vienna, Oslo,<br>Geneva, and Ankara.<br><br>"In joining the Internet Society, I look forward to advancing the<br>multistakeholder approach to policy that has been so central to the<br>Internet's development and is even more critical to its future," said<br>Markus Kummer, who
will officially take up his position on 1 February<br>2011. "With its technical roots, the Internet Society is already<br>established as a uniquely credible leader on policy issues, and a key<br>contributor to policy discussions at the national, regional, and<br>global levels."<br><br>The Internet Society is the world's trusted independent source of<br>leadership on Internet issues. The Internet Society works with its<br>tens of thousands of Members and nearly 100 Chapters around the world<br>to promote the continued evolution and growth of the open global<br>Internet.<br><br>About the Internet Society<br>The Internet Society is a non-profit organisation founded in 1992 to<br>provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education, and<br>policy. It is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution<br>and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the<br><span>world. See: <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.internetsociety.org">www.internetsociety.org</a></span><br><br>Contact<br>Greg Wood<br><a ymailto="mailto:wood@isoc.org" href="mailto:wood@isoc.org">wood@isoc.org</a><br>+1-703-439-2145<br>_______________________________________________<br>To manage your ISOC subscriptions or unsubscribe,<br>please log into the ISOC Member Portal:<br><a href="https://portal.isoc.org/" target="_blank">https://portal.isoc.org/</a><br>Then choose Interests & Subscriptions from the My Account menu.<br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org" href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and
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