Council Nominations: Joy Liddicoat and Wolfgang Kleinwachter

[Adam Peake]

Agree. Great suggestions.

Adam


>Wow, these are really excellent nominations! I 
>am really enthusiastic that both of these 
>accomplished individuals are willing to 
>represent NCSG in the GNSO Council. Thanks, Joy 
>and Wolfgang.
>
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>Liddicoat and Wolfgang Kleinwachter
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>Hi everyone,
>
>I am please to nominate for the open Council 
>seats two outstanding civil society 
>scholar/activists, Joy Liddicoat and Wolfgang 
>Kleinwachter.
>
>Joy is the Project Co-ordinator for Internet 
>Rights are Human Rights for the Association for 
>Progressive Communication, a NCUC organizational 
>member.  Joy is lawyer who's been a long-time 
>activist on human rights on the Internet and 
>beyond, and she's also involved in DNS issues 
>and well attuned to the ICANNsphere.  At present 
>she also serves Director of the Domain Name 
>Commission, InternetNZ, the non-profit 
>multistakeholder body responsible for managing 
>.nz and related Internet issues in New Zealand, 
>so she brings to the table an understanding of 
>public interest aspects of the ccTLD space as 
>well.  A strong human rights orientation has 
>generally been lacking in ICANN and the GNSO, so 
>she'd be filling an important gap.  At the same 
>time, it would be good to further engage in NCSG 
>the APC, which as probably everyone knows is the 
>probably the largest NGO, a multinational 
>network, doing civil society activism around 
>Internet and ICT issues.  More about Joy 
>here <http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/joy-liddicoat/11/233/745>http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/joy-liddicoat/11/233/745 and 
>APC here <http://www.apc.org>http://www.apc.org.
>
>Wolfgang is probably known to most members, as 
>he's an individual NCUC member who's attended I 
>believe all but one or two ICANN meetings since 
>its founding and has served most recently as the 
>chair of Nomcom.  He's a leading scholar on 
>global Internet governance and ICANN who's been 
>very involved with not only ICANN but the civil 
>society coalitions involved in the WSIS and IGF. 
> He is a professor at the University of Aarhus, 
>the organizer of the annual ICANN Studienkreis 
>conference, the organizer of the European Summer 
>School on Internet Governance, a founder along 
>with Milton myself and others of the Global 
>Internet Governance Academic Networks, and so 
>on.  Like Joy, he has the background and 
>disposition to be a great Councilor for the 
>NCSG.  More about Wolfgang 
>here <http://www.intgov.net/persons/52>http://www.intgov.net/persons/52
>
>Best,
>
>Bill
>
>
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