[bestbits] NETmundial co-chairs

[Antonio Medina Gómez]

+1 Excellent news
Antonio Medina Gómez
Asociación Colombiana de Usuarios de Internet



2014-02-11 6:17 GMT-05:00 Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>:

> Congratulations to Jeanette in particular :-)
>
>
> <http://netmundial.br/blog/2014/02/10/netmundial-welcome-board-members/>
>
> Sao Paulo, February 10, 2014 - In alignment with the multistakeholder
> spirit of the meeting, the Chairman of the NETmundial, Professor Virgílio
> Fernandes Almeida, has invited distinguished names to co-chair and lead the
> NETmundial organization.
>
> From the academia, Jeanette Hofmann: an expert on internet governance,
> senior researcher at Social Science Research Center Berlin for Social
> Research (WZB), Research Officer at London School of Economics and
> Political Science, and also professor at Humboldt - University of Berlin.
>
> As part of the civil society, Subi Chaturvedi is an activist-academician,
> from Delhi University, and also an active research scholar at the Indian
> Institute of technology (IIT-D). As a media critic she writes extensively
> on best practices on Internet governance and the way forward through a
> bottoms up, inclusive, multistakeholder, approach to preserve core internet
> values.
>
> Representing the private sector, Andile Ngcaba is chairman, founder and
> majority shareholder of investment group Convergence Partners.
>
> Complementing the group and representing the technical community is Fadi
> Chehade, President and CEO of ICANN, that holds more than 25 years of
> experience in building and leading progressive Internet enterprises.
>
> Together, the multistakeholder chairmanship will ensure coordination among
> all the committees and the success of the conference. They will have their
> first meeting this Friday, February 14th, where they will discuss further
> coordination mechanisms, document drafting process, among other internal
> details.
>
> END
>
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