[Kictanet] SECRETARY-GENERAL ESTABLISHES INTERNET GOVERNANCE ADVISORY GROUP TO ASSIST HIM
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Secretary-General
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Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
SECRETARY-GENERAL ESTABLISHES ADVISORY GROUP TO ASSIST HIM
IN CONVENING INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today established an Advisory
Group to assist him in convening the Internet Governance Forum, a new forum
for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance. The Group includes
46 members from Government, the private sector and civil society, including
the academic and technical communities, who represent all regions of the
world (see list below). It is chaired by Nitin Desai, the Secretary-General’s
Special Adviser for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), who
may also select special advisers to assist him.
The Advisory Group will meet on 22 and 23 May in Geneva, following an open
consultation on 19 May, also in Geneva. Its main task is to prepare the
substantive agenda and programme for the first meeting of the Internet
Governance Forum, which is to be held in Athens from 30 October to 2
November. Decisions on how to prepare subsequent meetings and on any future
structure and working methods of the Forum will be taken in light of the
experiences gained during the preparatory process for the Athens meeting.
The Internet Governance Forum is an outcome of the Tunis phase of the
WSIS, which took place in November 2005. In the Tunis Agenda for the
Information Society, Governments asked the Secretary-General to convene the
Forum, giving it the mandate to discuss the main public policy issues
related to Internet governance, in order to foster the Internet’s
sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development.
Governments called for the Forum to be convened in an “open and inclusive
process”. Accordingly, the Advisory Group will carry out its work in an
open, inclusive and transparent manner, and will seek to make the best
possible use of electronic working methods, including online consultations.
List of members
Chairman
Desai, Nitin
Delhi/Mumbai - Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Members
Agrawala, Pankaj
Delhi - Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology,
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Akinsanmi, Titilayo
Johannesburg - Programme Manager, SchoolNet Africa; Global
Facilitator of the WSIS Youth Caucus
Akplogan, Adiel
Port Louis - Chief Executive Officer, Regional Internet Registry
(RIR) for Africa - AfriNIC
Al-Shatti, Qusai
Kuwait City - Deputy Chairman of Kuwait Information Technology
Society (KITS)
Bayramov, Ayaz
Baku - Head of Department for International Relations and Cooperation
with NGOs, Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies
Bicalho, José
Brasilia - Member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee;
Advisor to the Board of Directors of the National Telecommunications Agency
(Anatel)
Clarke, Trevor
Geneva - Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations
Office at Geneva
Daftardar, Abdullah M.
Riyadh - Senior Executive, Communications and Information Technology
Commission
Dardailler, Daniel
Nice - Associate Chair for Europe, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C);
Member, Board of Directors, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN)
D’Costa, Valerie
Singapore - International Director, Info-Communication Development
Authority, Singapore
Diop Diagne, Ndeye Maimouna
Dakar - Directrice des NTIC, Ministère des Postes, Télécommunications
et Nouvelles Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (NTIC)
Disspain, Chris
Carlton - Victoria, Chair, Country Code Names Supporting Organization
(ccNSO) Council; Chief Executive Officer, .au Registry
Echeberría, Raúl
Montevideo - Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, Latin
America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC)
El-Nawawy, Mohamed
Cairo - Chairman and Managing Director, TE Data
Fältström, Patrik
Stockholm - Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems; Member, Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF); Member, Swedish Government Information
Technology Policy and Strategy Group
Gallagher, Michael D.
Washington D.C. - Chairman of the Communications Group, Perkins Coie
LLC
Graham, Bill
Ottawa - Director, International Telecommunication Policy and
Coordination, Industry Canada
Gross, Robin D.
San Francisco, California - Executive Director, IP Justice
Hassan, Ayesha
Paris - Senior Policy Manager, e-Business, Information Technology,
and Telecoms, Executive in charge of Information and Communication
Technology Policy, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Hellmonds, Peter
Munich - Vice President, Public and International Affairs, Siemens AG
Hofmann, Jeanette
Berlin - Researcher, Social Science Research Center
Iriarte, Erick
Lima - Executive Director, Alfa-Redi
Kafi, Abdullah
Dacca - Managing Director, J A N Associates Limited; former
President, Bangladesh Computer Society
Karklinš, Janis
Geneva - Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations
Office at Geneva
Katoh, Masanobu
Tokyo - Corporate Vice President; President, Law and Intellectual
Property Unit and Security Export Control Headquarters, Fujitsu Limited
Katundu, Michael
Nairobi - Principal Officer, Information Technology Communications
Commission
Khan, Masood
Geneva - Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
Office at Geneva
Kovács, Kálmán
Budapest - Minister of Informatics and Communications
Lohento, Gemma Brice (Ken)
Dakar - Panos Institute West Africa, Coordinator, Center for
International information and communication technology Policies for Central
and West Africa (CIPACO)
Markovski, Veni
Sofia - Chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory
Committee; Member, Board of Directors, ICANN
Oliver, Colin
Canberra - General Manager, International Communications, Department
of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Papadatos, George
Athens – Minister Plenipotentiary, Department of International
Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Peake, Adam
Tokyo - Executive Research Fellow/Associate Professor, Center for
Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan
Pisanty, Alejandro
Mexico City - Director of Computing Academic Services, Universidad
Autónoma de México; Director ISOC Mexico; Vice Chair, Board of Directors,
ICANN
Quaynor, Nii
Accra - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Network Computer
Systems; President, Internet Society of Ghana
Sha'ban, Charles
Amman - Executive Director, Regional Office, Abu-Ghazaleh
Intellectual Property (AGIP)
Shears, Matthew
Copenhagen - Director of Public Policy, Internet Society (ISOC)
Sierra, Colombo
Buenos Aires - Chief of Cabinet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Singer, Christian
Vienna - Head of Division, Federal Ministry of Transportation
Slizen, Vitaliy
Moscow - Head of Department, Information and Communication Ministry
Swinehart, Theresa
Marina del Rey, California - Vice President, Global and Strategic
Partnerships, ICANN
Taylor, Emily
Oxford - Nominet (.uk), Director of Legal and Policy
Wessberg, Arne
Helsinki - President, European Broadcasting Union (EBU); President,
International Institute of Communication
Xiaokun, Yang
Geneva - First Secretary, Permanent Mission of China to the United
Nations Office at Geneva
Zangl, Peter
Brussels - Deputy Director-General, Directorate General for
Information Society and Media, European Commission
For further information, please visit www.intgovforum.org or contact
Markus Kummer, Executive Coordinator, Secretariat of the Internet Governance
Forum, tel.: +41 0 22 917 54 88, e-mail: mkummer at unog.ch.
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