[governance] Second Candidate for co-coordinator Fouad Bajwa

[Eric Dierker]

Please tell us Ginger, where all this open and transparent process for the "we have a" taking place?  I am sorry but it sounds like a runner up in a beauty contest or the picking of a Pope.

--- On Sat, 11/7/09, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com>
Subject: [governance] Second Candidate for co-coordinator Fouad Bajwa
To: "'governance at lists.cpsr.org'" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009, 11:23 PM


We have a second candidate for co-coordinator of the IGC caucus, Fouad Bajwa:

Fouad Bajwa is an active member of the Civil Society from Pakistan,
South Asia. Fouad is an active member of the IGC and was nominated by
the IGC and elected by the UN as a member advisor of the IGF
Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) in May 2008. He has been part of
various ICT, FOSS and Philanthropic (Technology for Human Development)
initiatives regionally and around the world. As a social innovator, he
has been involved with various social enterprises and communities that
help promote Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the
Government, Private Sector and Civil Society with great relevance to
the developing world. He is also widely recognized for his
contributions as a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Evangelist and
renowned in Pakistan and globally for his contributions towards
promoting the Freedoms of use of Technology for Human Development.

Fouad has advised and participated various regional and global
Technology Access and Digital Inclusion campaigns for example one such
involving the manufacturing of over one billion low-cost ultra mobile
laptop computers running Free Software and their provision to one
billion underprivileged people on planet that have yet to use or
access computers and the Internet. This program was being carried out
by the Gerry Morgan Foundation Canada where Fouad (Co-Founder) has
been responsible for identifying and developing strategic global ICT4D
partnerships to meet this goal and works mainly with the ICT community
to identify programs.

He was the Co-founder of the Free and Open Source Software Foundation
and Community in Pakistan and initiated various programs for promoting
FOSS in the country. In 2005, his programs trained over 7000 people
and most notably women in use of Linux and respecting human intellect.
4800 Linux users were certified during this activity. Over half a
million of Free Software CDs have been distributed all over Pakistan
since then. In Pakistan, he currently leads the Linux Professional
Institute LPI-Pakistan office and is a Team Lead for the Ubuntu Linux
LoCo Team Pakistan and is a member of the Champions Network of the
prestigious ICT Challenge & Award, the Stockholm Challenge.

Fouad is a graduate in Computer Science and Information Technology and
also carries a scholarship in Internet Governance from DiploFoundation
and numerous fellowships in ICT4D & FOSS related policy, strategy,
research and development activities. He also trains and consults
organizations in other parts of world to design and implement ICT4D
inclusion and access programs. His online profile can be accessed at:
http://www.satc.pk/?q=node/14. Fouad is passionate about the
participation of the developing world in Internet Governance issues
and the multistakeholder dialogue between the IGF and ICANN.

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