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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks George and it is a potentially interesting proposition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But I must say that I’m unclear as to precisely what role is being suggested here. If the role is to attempt to frame the diversity of voices being articulated in civil society (in my case including those of the community informatics community for example) in a manner in which it can be more readily understood/assimilated/responded to by the technical community I think that is very useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If it is, on the other hand, to act as a more or less “authoritative”/designated “filter” of communications/voices from Civil Society to the Technical Community then I can see quite considerable difficulty and controversy resulting, if nothing else, from a concern within certain CS elements of being “silenced/ignored”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(The same clarification would need to be made if the role is perceived as being more of an “honest broker”—i.e. the question being, particularly on the CS side, how inclusive of all CS interests/voices is the “brokerage” committed/able to be. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Perhaps some clarification is in order here either from yourself in how you perceive the role, or from Ian or Sala on how they presented the role (and perceive it from a CS perspective).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(I should also possibly add here that a significant number of those active in the Community Informatics community would, by their background, qualifications, experience and current activities qualify as being “techies” of one sort or another. Whether they would qualify as being members of the “Technical Community” (TC) under what I understand to be the criteria for inclusion within the TC as currently defined by the formal TC structures I’m not sure, as their orientation tends to be towards technical design and fabrication in support of social/digital inclusion and social justice.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best to all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>George Sadowsky<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 23, 2013 8:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ian Peter<br><b>Cc:</b> Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro; governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] Fadi Speech to ALAC, Brazil 2014 Meeting and need for IGC and civil society Liaisons<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, Ian,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sala and I talked while we were both in Buenos Aires. Perhaps I can clarify my sense of what she may have been proposing.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There is at the moment somewhat of a gulf between the technical community and the list(s) used by the proclaimed representatives of civil society. Sometimes such differences of opinion, as well as fact, can be resoled rather quickly if they are discussed directly by people on both sides of the issue, rather than being left to fester and feed growing suspicion and/or discontent. I think that Sala thought that having some announced or implied line of communication, clearly non-exclusive, might be helpful at times. I thought so, too.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Having seen little response from anyone on this list, perhaps the idea isn't welcome in the more formalized sense in which it has been presented, and I can understand that. I think that perhaps I could be more active from time to time in the discussions that occur, and that might help to bridge some differences between the communities. Although I consider myself more technical in the context of Internet governance discussions, I do have roots in development activities that are quite consistent with some of the expressions of opinion posted to this and similar lists.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>George<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Nov 18, 2013, at 1:12 AM, Ian Peter wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi Sala, <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>a matter of clarification please.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Are you suggesting that George be a point of liaison within the technical community for civil society, or that George be a civil society representative liaising with the technical community?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I am all in favour of the former, and admire George’s work, but I doubt whether George would be entirely comfortable with the latter role and even if he was I doubt that would be acceptable to many on this list. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Ian Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" title="salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Monday, November 18, 2013 4:20 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" title="governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Cc:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:george.sadowsky@gmail.com" title="george.sadowsky@gmail.com">George Sadowsky</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> [governance] Fadi Speech to ALAC, Brazil 2014 Meeting and need for IGC and civil society Liaisons<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear IGC,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>As you can imagine, since Bali and in light of the “multistakeholder” event that will be hosted by the Brazil on the future on Internet Governance called: <b><i>"Global Multistakeholder <br>Meeting on the Future on Internet Governance,"</i> </b>it becomes inherently critical that we start preparing to shape the Agenda. Many thanks to Carlos and Hartmut for keeping us informed of what is happening within Brazil and for taking the time to translate from Portuguese to English when the need demands. Unfortunately, there were no live transcripts although transcripts will be provided unlike the live stream available to the GAC community (tongue in cheek). To watch the vide of Fadi speaking: </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennmcknight/sets/72157637762195684" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennmcknight/sets/72157637762195684</a></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadi spoke about the manner in which ICANN is going to engage in what I thought was a very mature response symbolic of the desire to engage with communities.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> As you can imagine in the lead up to the preparations for 2014 we as global civil society need to consolidate to prepare. There have been discussions going on offlist amongst the various facilitators of some of the core civil society groups about how this is to take place where it has centered on the possibilities of a joint framework for engagement of civil society including Multistakeholder selection processes for some of the key positions. There was suggestion to experiment first with the combined NomCom for the MAG and I highlighted that this could be difficult in light of the pressing deadlines. There may be room however for joint endorsements but I will leave this to the NomCom Chair. At this point, I do not want to burden our NomCom as they are working against a very narrow and tight deadline. Whilst we are waiting for the other groups to comment on coordinated and shared framework for engagement, I would like to propose the following to the IGC.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Given that we do not have time nor the resources, it has been by way of an ad hoc nature common for people who are involved in foras or diverse communities to provide feedback on what is happening randomly. This to a large extent happens but my sense is that we need to be better coordinated and have different people watch the different spaces they are in and liaise back with the IGC. I suggested that this could be done with and through combined civil society but I think we need to pick up the pace and start anyway whilst waiting.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>To this extent, I would propose that in the spirit of enhanced cooperation that we use our own people within civil society who happen to wear multiple hats to act as liaisons, even if temporary at this point until such time where we can coordinate more permanent representation. I feel that the IGC should have liaisons in the following circles:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-left:.5in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Technical Community <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-left:.5in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Business Community<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Symbol;color:black'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Governments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The liaisons role would be to be a bridge into these communities to channel developments of what is happening within these communities that are of relevance to civil society and also from time to time raise the issues of civil society or broker and facilitate the process through which these views can be heard. If there are people who feel they can function in these roles, we need volunteers. This is to ensure that we know what is happening at all times.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The IGC has two options, we can utilize a formal process and invite calls for nominations and have a NomCom make the selection. On another note, we can maintain the informal ad hoc liaison process that is currently in place. My personal preference is for the latter to allow for volunteers who are consistent and command the respect of the diverse communities.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Given the current deadlines and politics surrounding the 2014 Meeting in Brazil, I propose that we have <b>George Sadowski </b>to act as liaison for us to the technical community. I am of the view that we can have at least two to three liaisons as the Technical Community is diverse and spread out between the ETSI, W3C, ITU-T, IETF, ICANN, IAB, RIR etc. For now the liaison function can be limited to the developments of the Rio engagement with room to evolve into identifying issues affecting global public interest that civil society might want to monitor in a consistent and cohesive manner. Whilst George is also a member of the ICANN Board, I am not asking him as an ICANN Board member but as a member of the IGC.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> If there are those that wish to join George in this role, there is nothing stopping a list of volunteers from being part of a team that condenses the issues in diverse stratas and feeds it back into the IGC in a consolidated manner.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>As we engage in coming to the table to set the Agenda, we need to do so intelligently and cohesively and in a coordinated manner. This was one of the things raised in the meeting in Bali-</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>In the future as the IGC evolves, there is space to develop a working group to focus on technical and policy stratas that we may wish to organize our advocacies in. For a long while, advocacy has been happening via individuals or groups that have pet topics and issues. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Sala<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>(In my personal capacity)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>George Sadowski Profile and Biography<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>GEORGE SADOWSKY: BIOGRAPHY<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>George Sadowsky is currently a member of the Board of Directors of ICANN (Internet <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and a consultant to, inter alia, the World Wide <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Web Foundation and NATO.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>He received an A.B. degree with honors in Mathematics from Harvard College and M.A. and <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Yale University. After spending 1958-1962 as an applied <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>mathematician and programmer, his career concentrated on applying computers to economic <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>and social policy, leading academic computing and networking organizations, and making <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>information and communication technologies (ICTs) useful throughout the world. In 1963-64 he <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>introduced the use of microsimulation for tax analysis purposes in the U.S. Treasury Department. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>During 1966-1970 he founded and directed the Computer Center at the Brookings Institution in <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Washington; from 1970-73 he did economic research at the Urban Institute leading to his Ph.D, <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>dissertation on the subject of micro-analytic simulation of the household sector.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>During 1973-86 at the United Nations, he supported the transfer of information technology to <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>developing countries. He has done work in more than 50 developing countries and continues to <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>do so. Among other things, he introduced the use of microcomputers for census data processing <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>in Africa in 1979, and he worked in China during 1982-1986 supporting the computing activities <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>of their 1982 Census of Population and Housing.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From 1986 to 2001, he directed academic computing and networking activities, first at <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Northwestern University and then at New York University. He has been a consultant to the U.S. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Treasury Department, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, UNDP, the Swiss Government, <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>and a number of foundations. He was a Board member of AppliedTheory Corporation and was a <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Trustee of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN) and the New York <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>State Educational and Research Network (NYSERNet). He was actively involved in World <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Bank activities during 1996-2002 as a member and Coordinator of the Technical Advisory <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Panel for the infoDev program, as well as in UNDP and USAID activities. In 1994, he and Larry <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Landweber formulated USAID's Leland Initiative for providing initial Internet connectivity <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>for 20 African countries. He was a member of the Internet Society Board of Trustees during<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>1996-1999 and 2000-2004 and served as Vice President for Conferences (1996-1998) and Vice-<br>President for Education (1998-2001). He headed a group of ISOC volunteers who defined and<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>conducted the ISOC Developing Country Network Training Workshops during 1993 -2001.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>More recently, he was the Executive Director of the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>from 2001-2006, which had active ongoing Internet policy reform projects in 17 countries. He <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>also served as Senior Technical Adviser within USAID's dot-GOV program for the Internews <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Consortium, providing ICT policy assistance to the developing world. He has served as an <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>expert witness for litigation in the United Kingdom and the United States. He was a special <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>adviser to Nitin Desai, the Chair of the UN Secretary-General's Internet Governance Forum <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>as well as to the Chair of UN G@ID. He has served as a member of the PIR (Public Internet <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Registry) Advisory Board, and he is currently a member of the ICANN (Internet Corporation for <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Assigned Names and Numbers) Board of Directors He has written and lectured extensively on <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Please refer to his web site, <a href="http://www.georgesadowsky.org/">http://www.georgesadowsky.org/</a> as well as the GIPI web site, http://<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.internetpolicy.net/">www.internetpolicy.net</a>, for additional information.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a><br><br>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>