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IP Justice's Robin
Gross Named to United Nations Internet Governance
Forum (IGF) Advisory Group
19 May
2006 IP Justice participated at the United Nations
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) "Open Consultations" on 19 May 2006 in
Geneva, Switzerland to advocate for protecting civil liberties in
cyberspace and encouraging access to knowledge via the Internet. The UN sponsored IGF is the main outcome of the
2003-2005 UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and is
charged with discussing the main public policy issues related to
Internet governance,
in order to foster the Internet’s sustainability, robustness, security,
stability and development. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
selected a group of 47 experts from governments, business, and civil
society to prepare a substantive agenda and program for the inaugural
meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, which is to take place in
Athens, Greece from 30 October - 2 November 2006. IP Justice Executive Director Robin Gross was
named as one of the 7 members representing civil society on the IGF
Advisory Group. The IGF also includes 20 representatives from
government, 10 from the business sector, and 9 from the ICANN system.
Unfortunately, most of the names put forward by civil society were not
selected by the UN; and those public-interest-oriented members who were
named to the IGF's Advisory Group may face an uphill battle against
those who view the Internet as more of a threat than an opportunity for
human development. The first meeting of the UN IGF Advisory Group
takes place on 22 and 23 May 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland. The
forum is chaired by Nitin Desai, the Special Advisor to Kofi Annan on
WSIS and Markus Kummer serves as the Secretariat's Executive Director. Members of the UN IGF Advisory Group: 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 Kārkliņš, Jānis 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 Yahaya, Issah Accra - Head of Policy Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation/Telecoms, Ministry of Communications Zangl, Peter Brussels - Deputy Director-General, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission More Info: IP Justice Recommendations regarding Substantive Agenda for UN Internet Governance Forum
UN
Press Release Announcing Internet Governance Forum Advisory Group IP Justice
Statement at UN IGF "Open Consultations" - 19 May 2006 IP Justice Webpage on Tunis Summit of UN World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) webpage Webcast of Open
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