[governance] CS speaker suggestions for the opening and closing

Wed Aug 25 06:44:24 EDT 2010

Hi All,

I'd like to confirm acceptance.

Best,
Ben

On Tue, August 24, 2010 2:23 pm, Chad Lubelsky wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> APC would like to nominate the following individuals.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chad
>
> --
>
> Europe:
> Karen Banks
> 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.
> Africa:
> Fatimata Seye Sylla
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> Ben Akoh
> Ben Akoh works as a Project Manager with IISDs 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.
> Asia:
> Parminder Jeet Singh
> Parminder Jeet Singh is the Executive Director of IT for Change  a
> Bangalore based NGO (www.ITforChange.net), 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.
> 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 'Government at Net: New Governance Opportunities
> for India' (Sage Publications 2002) .
> 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.
> 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.
> LAC:
> Katitza Rodríguez
> 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.
> Valeria Betancourt
> 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.
>
>
>
> On 23-Aug-10, at 6:46 PM, Ginger Paque wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> If there are any other nominations, please do post as soon as
>> possible. Thanks!
>>
>> Fouad Bajwa (confirmed)
>> Fatimata Seye Sylla (confirmed)
>> Valeria Betancourt (confirmed)
>> Wolfgang Kleinwachter (confirmed)
>> Parminder (not yet confirmed)
>>
>> Best, Ginger
>>
>>
>
> ----
>
> Chad Lubelsky - Global networking, policy and advocacy coordinator
> Association for Progressive Communications
> Montreal, Canada
> chad at apc.org - +1 514 603 3382
>
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