[WSIS CS-Plenary] RE: IGC's nominations for speakers for Rio

[Parminder]

Dear Sir

 

Te following are the speakers recommended by the IG Caucus for the ‘Way
Forward’ session at IGF, Rio.

 

 

Best

 

Parminder 

 

 


 

Session

Name

Brief Bio 


 

The Way Forward

Milton Mueller 

*        Milton Mueller is a Professor at the School of Information Studies,
Syracuse University. He directs the School's Graduate Program in
Telecommunications and Network Management. Mueller received the Ph.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School, in 1989. He co-directs the
Convergence Center, which focuses on the technical, management and policy
problems of converging media. He is a member of the Internet Governance
Project. 

*        Dr. Mueller's research focuses on property rights, institutions and
regulation in telecommunication and information industries. His book Ruling
the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace was published by
MIT Press in May 2002. He is one of the founding members of ICANN's
Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) within the Generic Names Supporting
Organization, was elected to serve on the ICANN's GNSO Council in 2001 and
2002. 

 


 

 

Sisule Musungu

*        Mr. Musungu is a lawyer and he is currently in charge of the South
Centre's project on intellectual property under the Centre's Programme on
International Trade and Development. He is an advocate of the High Court of
Kenya and a member of the Law Society of Kenya and has previously worked as
a legal intern and an associate in the law firm Hamilton Harrison and
Mathews in Nairobi. 

*        He is also a researcher in human rights (with a special interest in
socio-economic and cultural rights), economic development and
democratization in Africa and has worked as a consultant to Medecins Sans
Frontieres (MSF) Access to Essential Medicines Campaign in Kenya and to
Health Action International - Africa (HAI Africa), the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Foundation for
International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) as well as for the
Kenyan Government.

 

 

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Parminder Jeet Singh

IT for Change, Bangalore

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 

Tel: (+91-80) 2665 4134, 2653 6890

Fax: (+91-80) 4146 1055

 <http://www.itforchange.net/> www.ITforChange.net 

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From: Parminder [mailto:parminder at itforchange.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:55 PM
To: 'IGF'
Cc: 'governance at lists.cpsr.org'; 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'
Subject: IGC's nominations for speakers for Rio

 

Dear Sir

 

Please find enclosed a list of nominations from the Civil Society Internet
Governance Caucus for the main sessions at Rio. Nominations for the ‘Way
Forward’ session will be forwarded by tomorrow. 

 

Please let us know if any more information about the recommended speakers is
required by you. 

 

Thanks, and best regards. 

 

Parminder

 

Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus’s Recommendations for Speakers for
the Main Sessions at IGF, Rio 

 

 


Sr. No

Session

Name

Organisational Affiliation

Designation

Country


1

Critical Internet Resources

 Paul Wilson 

 

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)

Director General

Australia


 

 

 Carlos Afonso

 

RITS (Information Network for the Third Sector)

Planning Director

Brazil


2

Diversity

Monthian Buntan

 

Thai Blind People's Foundation (TBPF)

Executive Director

Thailand


 

 

Nnenna Nwakanma

 

 

Independent Consultant

Ivory Coast


 

 

Daniel Pimienta

 

FUNREDES

Head

Dominican Republic 


3

Access

 Daniel Stern

 

U-Connect

Programs Director

Uganda


 

 

John Dada

 

Fantsuam Foundation

Programs Director,

Nigeria


 

 

Anita Gurumurthy

 

IT for Change

Executive Director

India


4. 

Openness

 William Drake

Graduate Institute of International Studies

Director -Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance

Geneva- Switzerland


 

 

Ang Peng Hwa

 

Nanyang Technological University

Associate professor & Chair-SCI

Singapore


5

Security

Mr. Izumi Aizu

 

The Japanese Institute of Global Communications (GLOCOM)

Executive Research Fellow

Japan


 

 

Ralf Bendrath

 

University of Bremen

Research Fellow

Germany


 

 

. Katitza Rodríguez Pereda

 <http://www.cpsr-peru.org> CPSR-Peru

Vice President

Peru


6

Emerging Issues

Vittorio Bertola

Dynamic Fun

 Founding partner; President & Chief Technical Office

Italy


 

 

 Roberto Bissio

 

Third World Institute

Executive Director

Uruguay 


7. 

Opening Session 

 Anriette Esterhuysen

 

Association for Progressive Communications

Executive Director

South Africa


 

 

 Adama Samassékou

 

Peoples' Movement for Human Rights Education 

Founder

Mali

 

 

 

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