[governance] CS speaker suggestions for the opening and closing

Wed Aug 25 07:54:27 EDT 2010

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2010/8/24 Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com>

>  IGC nominations for CS speakers have now been open for one week. I ask
> than any final nominations be made within the next 24 hours. If your
> nomination must be delayed longer than that, but you would like it to be
> included, please let me know by private email during those same 24 hours.
> Thanks! Best, ginger
>
> Current list of nominees.
>
> Fouad Bajwa (confirmed)
> Fatimata Seye Sylla (confirmed)
> Valeria Betancourt (confirmed)
> Wolfgang Kleinwachter (confirmed)
>  Parminder (confirmed)
> Co-coordinators (Jeremy/Ginger) (in discussion)
> Karen Banks (unconfirmed)
> Ben Akoh (unconfirmed)
> Katitza Rodriguez (unconfirmed)
>
>
>
>
> On 8/24/2010 2:53 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 IISD’s 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* <http://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* <%27Government 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 <d at apc.org> - +1 514 603 3382
>
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