[governance] Izumi Aizu Bio - for CS-IGC

[Izumi AIZU]

Here follows my Bio for your consideratoin.

Many thanks!

izumi

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Izumi Aizu is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute
for InfoSocinomics, Kumon Center, Tama University in Tokyo and Deputy
Director at the Institute for HyperNetwork Society in Oita, Japan.

Izumi promoted the use of PC based network in the 1980s and the
Internet in the ’90s. In 1997, he founded Asia Network Research in
Malaysia, focusing on societal aspects of the Internet, global
governance and digital divide. In April 2000, he moved back to Tokyo.
He represented Japanese NPO under the government’s requests at the
Digital Opportunity Task Force (DOT Force, 2000-2002).

He has been participating in the ICANN, WSIS, WGIG and IGF activities
as a member of civil society. Until today, he has been trying to bring
the voices of users and citizens at ICANN process: at the Membership
Advisory Committee (MAC, 1999-2000); AtLarge Advisory Committee (ALAC,
2003-2008). In 2001, he organized to support Asian civil society
members to participate in the preparatory process of World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS) at Tokyo Regional preparatory meeting
in 2003 and other occasions.

In 2004 he co-found Internet Governance Task Force (IGTF) of Japan to
engage in the debate on Internet Governance at the WSIS Working Group
on Internet Governance. In 2009, he co-founded Japan Internet Domain
Name Council to promote Internationalized Country Code Top Level
Domain, dot Nippon, to bring fair and open selection and governance
process for ccTLD management in multi-stakeholder manner in Japan.

His recent papers include “Beyond Network Neutrality”
(Telecommunication Journal of Australia, 2009) and Japan Chapter at
Global Information Society Watch (APC, 2009, 2010).
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