[WSIS CS-Plenary] Kofi Annan nominates IFG Advisory Group

[Ralf Bendrath]

Congratulations to all CS folks who made it!
And don't forget to keep us others involved. ;-)
Ralf

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2006/sga1006.doc.htm

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

      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

      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.