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

Ezendu Ariwa e.ariwa at londonmet.ac.uk
Thu May 18 18:46:28 BST 2006 

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> On behalf of myself and the Organization I represent
> my hearty congratulations to ALL who made the Advisory
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> More grease to your elbows.
> Pastor Peters OMORAGBON
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>> Congratulations to all CS folks who made it!
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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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