<div dir="ltr">I would like to nominate Norbert Klein, an Associate of the Cambodian NGO Open Institute from Phnom Penh/Cambodia to represent NCUC on the nomcom. <br><br>I checked with him earlier today, and he's interested and willing to serve. Below is a Bio so that those of you not familiar with him, can know more him.<br>
<br>Sincerely yours,<br><br>Robert Guerra<br>CPSR, Director<br>Toronto, Canada<br><br>----<br><br>Norbert Klein - Bio<br>Current as of Aug 2008<br>---<br><br>INTERNET RELATED INVOLVEMENT <br><br>CAMBODIA<br><br>1994 established first connection from Cambodia to the Internet<br>
("Khmer Internet - Cambodia Case Study" - ITU January 2002<br><a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/cambodia/index.html">http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/cambodia/index.html</a>)<br><br>1996 established Internet Country Code address .kh for Cambodia and <br>
administered it until transferring responsibility to the Ministry of Post and <br>Telecommunications 1998. <br><br>1997 to 2002 working to establish UNICODE definition for the Khmer language <br>(UNICODE Khmer mailing list, Advisor to the Committee Organizing the Standard <br>
Khmer Script for Computers, UNICODE consortium meetings, "in Witness of the <br>Gratitude of the Royal Government and the Citizens of Cambodia awarded the <br>Honor as a Knight of the Order of Monisaraphon")<br><br>Also: 1997 to the present: Editor of a daily review of the Khmer press in <br>
English - <a href="http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com">http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com</a><br><br><br>REGIONAL Asia<br><br>1996 ISOC Workshop on Networking Technology for Countries in the Early Stages <br>of Internetworking, Montreal/Canada – further participating in ISOC in 1997 <br>
in Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia and in 2000 Yokohama/Japan<br><br>Regional Asia – participating in several Asia Pacific Networking Group <br>events – APNG - (2002 and 2005 also presenting) – and Asia Pacific Regional <br>Internet Conference on Operational Technologies - APRICOT – in some years as <br>
presenter<br><br><br>GLOBAL<br><br>In 1999 joining the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency, later the <br>Non-Commerical Users Constituency, for two terms on the Executive Committee <br>for the Asia region, then delegated into the ICANN Generic Names Support <br>
Organization's Council.<br><br>Participated in the following ICANN meetings as member of the non-commercial <br>constituency:<br><br>1999/08 Santiago de Chile<br>2000/07 Yokohama<br>2000/11 Marina del Rey<br>2001/03 Melbourne<br>
2001/09 Montevideo<br>2001/11/ Marina del Rey<br>2002/03 Accra<br>2002/10 Shanghai<br>2003/06 Montreal<br>2004/07 Kuala Lumpur<br>2004/12 Cape Town<br>2005/04 Mar del Plata<br>2005/07 Luxembourg<br>2005/12 Vancouver<br>2006/03 Wellington<br>
2006/06 Marrakech <br>2006/12 São Paulo<br>2007/03 Lisbon<br>2007/06 Puerto Rico<br>2007/10-11 Los Angeles<br>2008/02 New Delhi<br><br><br>Beyond ICANN<br><br>2003 January - Asia-Pacific Regional Conference towards WSIS 2003 <br>
<br>2003 – negotiated and achieved Cambodian NGO membership in the Association <br>for Progressive Communication (Cartagena/Colombia), serving one term as <br>second representative on the APC Council<br><br>2003 December First WSIS and ICT4D Platform (presenter) in Geneva<br>
2004 March UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force Global <br>Forum on Internet Governance, New York, contributing to the book "Internet <br>Governance - Perspectives from Cambodia" <br><br>2004 May UN ICT Task Force Regional Meeting on Internet Governance - Shanghai <br>
<br>2004 June First Preparatory Committee for the 2nd UN World Summit for the <br>Information Society - in Tunisia – 2005 in Geneva<br><br>2005 December Second WSIS in Tunis<br><br><br>2003 invited and continuing as Member of the Advisory Board of the "Institut <br>
francophone des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la formation," <br>of the Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; board meets normally <br>twice per year – in Mauritius, Cameroon, Tunesia, Senegal, and several times <br>
in France.<br><br>Author of the Cambodia chapters of the "Digital Review of Asia Pacific," <br>2003/2004 and 2005/2006, published by the Asia Pacific Development <br>Information Program of UNDP, and the Pan Asia Networking of the International <br>
Development Research Program of Canada (http<//<a href="http://www.digital-review.org">www.digital-review.org</a>) <br><br><br>INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES:<br><br>German - native<br>English – fluent speaking, reading, and writing<br>
French - working competence in speaking, reading, and writing<br>Japanese – working competence in speaking, reading, and writing<br>Spanish – working competence in speaking, reading, and writing<br><br></div>