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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am very happy to nominate two great individuals for the GNSO Open Council seats in the forthcoming elections – Wendy Seltzer and Rafik Dammak. Most of you know these individuals their outstanding contributions to non-commercial interests, but for the new members here is a brief outline of their work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Wendy <span style='color:black'>is a Fellow with Princeton University's<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Center for Information Technology Policy, previously Fellow with the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>at the University of Colorado</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and with the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School</b>. Wendy founded and developed the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/"><b>Chilling Effects Clearinghouse</b></a>, a project to study and combat the ungrounded legal threats that chill activity on the Internet. Wendy also serves on the Board of Directors of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.torproject.org/">The Tor Project</a>, supporting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology, and the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span>World Wide Web Foundation, dedicated to empowering people through Web technology. She served on the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.icann.org/">ICANN</a><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Board as at-large advisory committee liaison, and is currently terminating her first term as GNSO Councillor. More information about Wendy can be found at:</span></span> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://wendy.seltzer.org/">http://wendy.seltzer.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Rafik is a <span class=apple-style-span>PhD student at University of Tokyo in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies and member of Sakamura lab. He holds an Msc on Applied Computer Science from university of Tokyo and also former computer engineer. He is working on Ubiquitous Computing with focus on wireless sensor network with Interests on Internet and Web of Things (moslty on Smart energy and Smart Grid, doing my research on Home/Building Energy Management System). He is interested also by freeculture, Access to Knowledge, Open content and Creative Commons, I was Public Co-leader for Tunisian CC License (ceased project). Rafik is currently terminating his first term as an NCSG Councillor appointed by the Board. Rafik has been very active in advocating about non-commercial interests and human rights on the Internet. More information about Rafik can be found at: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/rafikdammak">http://www.linkedin.com/in/rafikdammak</a></span></span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>KK</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Constantia","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Senior Lecturer,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Strathclyde,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The Law School,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Graham Hills building, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Selected publications: <a href="http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038"><span style='color:blue'>http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT Condensed","serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Website: <a href="http://www.komaitis.org"><span style='color:blue'>www.komaitis.org</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>