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

Izumi AIZU iza at anr.org
Sat Aug 29 04:12:24 CDT 2009


Conguratulations to all new ALAC members, and especially
to James Seng who has been selected for Asia/Pacific!

izumi


2009/8/29 At-Large Staff <staff at atlarge.icann.org>:
> We'll be happy to Cheryl :)
>
> Cheryl Langdon-Orr 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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          Institute for InfoSocionomics, Tama University, Tokyo

           Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
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