[ALAC] [At-Large] Welcome to our New ALAC Nom Com appointees!!

[Fatimata Seye Sylla]

Congratulations to the new appointees and welcome to ALAC !

Best wishes,
Fatimata


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Cheryl Langdon-Orr <langdonorr at gmail.com>wrote:

> we have our new NomCom appointees from the Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin
> american & Caribbean regions see
> http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-28aug09-en.htm   a Huge
> Welcome aboard to all of you I look forward to working with all of you in
> the ALAC and I'm sure I speak for everyone else in the Regional, ALS, and
> wider At-Large when I say we look forward to incorporating your expertise,
> views and energy into our policy development work and discussions over the
> next 2 years...
> Staff can we ensure they are joined to our lists and that an Announce
> message goes out ASAP
>
> --
> Cheryl Langdon-Orr
> (CLO)
>
>
> announcement text for ALAC  NomCom appointments 2009-2011 is copied
> below...
>
>
> *<snip> ALAC*
>
> *James Seng* has been appointed as an At Large Advisory Committee member
> from Asia/Australia/Pacific. James will bring his significant expertise on
> IDN (internationalized domain names) to bear on At Large discussions, and
> can also share his experience of Internet issues in several Asian
> countries;
> including Malaysia, Singapore and China where he now resides.
>
> James is the CEO of Zodiac Holdings, a company focused on IDN gTLDs in
> Asia.
> James is also Chief Technology Officer of the Shanghai Synacast Media Tech.
> Co, a member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Advance Research
> and Education Network, and a committee member of the Internet and New Media
> Committee of Media Development Authority of Singapore.
>
> Previously, James has been a partner in Thymos Capital LLP 2007-2008, and
> worked as Assistant Director, Next Generation Network, Infocomm Development
> Authority of Singapore from 2003-2006. James is or has been involved in
> numerous Internet-related groups and committees including the Asia Pacific
> IPv6 Task Force, Internet Engineering Task Force, ICANN's IDN Registry
> Implementation Committee, Domain Name Technical Committeeof the Singapore
> Network Information Center, Asia Pacific Internet Association. He also
> served as Co-chair of the IDN Working Group, Internet Engineering Task
> Force, 1999-2003 and Chair of the iDNS Working Group, Asia Pacific
> Networking Group, 1998-2000.
>
> James' educational background includes a Bachelor of Information
> Technology,
> Software Engineering, Australian National University, 1996-1999
>
>
> *Carlton Samuels* has been appointed as an At Large Advisory Committee
> member from Latin America / Caribbean. Carlton brings significant Caribbean
> experience and knowledge, and also an ability to facilitate
> consensus-building with the Latin American Internet community from his work
> as LACRALO secretariat.
>
> Carlton works as a consultant and an adjunct lecturer at the Information
> Science Faculty of Humanities & Education in the University of the West
> Indies at Mona Kingston, Jamaica. He is a Jamaican and US national.
>
> Previously, Carlton has worked as CIO & University Director of IT,
> University of the West Indies, Managing Director, Mona Informatix, as a
> registrar for the .jm ccTLD and VP, Network Systems, Neal & Massy
> Corporation as a senior executive with responsibility for regional network
> and telecommunications business segment for the largest Caribbean-based
> multinational.
>
> Carlton's current and previous volunteer positions include being a
> foundation member of and the current secretariat for the Latin America and
> Caribbean Regional At-Large Advisory Organization (LACRALO), member of the
> advisory boards of Microsoft Partners in Learning and the Project Advisory
> Board of the Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance
> Education (CUPIDE). Carlton has also been a member of the CARICOM ICT Task
> Force, a regional ICT leadership position charged with developing a
> cohesive
> ICT policy framework for Caribbean governments.
>
> Carlton's educational background includes a degree in Natural Sciences from
> The University of the West Indies, a postgraduate degree in management
> information systems from George Mason University, US, and a postgraduate
> diploma in corporate strategy from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
>
>
> *Dave Kissoondoyal* has been appointed as an At Large Advisory Committee
> member from Africa. Dave will be an invaluable asset to the ALAC given his
> experience in Internet governance and the Internet Society, whose Mauritius
> chapter he founded. Dave is Director of Information Technology at Teleforma
> (Mauritius), Ltd - A US Upstream Company.
>
> Previously, Dave was Group Technical Director and Chief Technology Officer
> for the Bowman Group of Companies. Dave is a member of the Public Interest
> Registry .ORG Advisory Council, a member of the African Stakeholders
> Network
> (ASN) of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task
> Force and has been an Ambassador of the Internet Society to the World
> Summit
> on the Information Society (WSIS).
>
> Dave's other volunteer work includes acting at different times as
> Secretary,
> Treasurer and President (CEO) of Save the Children Mauritius. He also
> founded the Internet Society of Mauritius and is its president.
>
> Dave's education background includes a qualification in electronics from
> the
> University of Mauritius, in information systems management from the
> Mauritius Institute of Management / University of Surrey, United Kingdom,
> and in electronics from the City and Guilds of London Institute. He speaks
> English, French and Hindi. <end snip>
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Fatimata Seye Sylla