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

Sun Aug 30 10:31:22 CDT 2009

Hello James Seng, Carlton Samuels and Dave Kissoondoyal,

Congratulations.  Welcome to the At Large Advisory Committee.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
http://isocmadras.blogspot.com

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Fatimata Seye Sylla <fsylla at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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