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

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On behalf of myself and the Organization I represent
my hearty congratulations to ALL who made the Advisory
Group.
More grease to your elbows.
Pastor Peters OMORAGBON
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> Congratulations to all CS folks who made it!
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http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2006/sga1006.doc.htm
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> 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
> 
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   Pastor Peters OMORAGBON 
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