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<font size=3>dear all<br><br>
I second this nomination - and, when i get a moment, will write up some
thoughts on the nomcom process - i've been the appointee for NCUC to the
nomcom this past two years - a really interesting and worthwhile
experience..<br><br>
karen<br><br>
At 14:53 24/08/2008, Robert Guerra wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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>
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Norbert Klein - Bio<br>
Current as of Aug 2008<br>
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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 Kualaa Lumpur/Malaysia and in 2000 Yokohama/Japan<br><br>
Regional Asia – participating in several Asia Pacific Networkking Group
<br>
events – APNG - (2002 and 2005 also preseenting) – and Asia Pacific
Regional <br>
Internet Confereence on Operational Technologies - APRICOT – in some
yeaars 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 annd 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, Tunessia, 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 compeetence in speaking, reading, and
writing<br>
Spanish – woorking competence in speaking, reading, and writing<br>
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