Nomination / Norbert Klein

[karen banks]

dear all

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..

karen

At 14:53 24/08/2008, Robert Guerra wrote:

>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.
>
>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.
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>Robert Guerra
>CPSR, Director
>Toronto, Canada
>
>----
>
>Norbert Klein - Bio
>Current  as of Aug 2008
>---
>
>INTERNET RELATED INVOLVEMENT
>
>CAMBODIA
>
>1994 established first connection from Cambodia to the Internet
>("Khmer Internet - Cambodia Case Study" - ITU January 2002
><http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/cambodia/index.html>http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/cambodia/index.html)
>
>1996 established Internet Country Code address .kh for Cambodia and
>administered it until transferring responsibility to the Ministry of Post and
>Telecommunications 1998.
>
>1997 to 2002 working to establish UNICODE definition for the Khmer language
>(UNICODE Khmer mailing list, Advisor to the Committee Organizing the Standard
>Khmer Script for Computers, UNICODE consortium meetings, "in Witness of the
>Gratitude of the Royal Government and the Citizens of Cambodia awarded the
>Honor as a Knight of the Order of Monisaraphon")
>
>Also: 1997 to the present: Editor of a daily review of the Khmer press in
>English 
>-  <http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com>http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com
>
>
>REGIONAL Asia
>
>1996 ISOC Workshop on Networking Technology for Countries in the Early Stages
>of Internetworking, Montreal/Canada – further participating in ISOC in 1997
>in Kualaa Lumpur/Malaysia and in 2000 Yokohama/Japan
>
>Regional Asia – participating in several Asia Pacific Networkking Group
>events – APNG - (2002 and 2005 also preseenting) – and Asia Pacific Regional
>Internet Confereence on Operational Technologies 
>- APRICOT – in some yeaars as
>presenter
>
>
>GLOBAL
>
>In 1999 joining the Non-Commercial Domain Name 
>Holders Constituency, later the
>Non-Commerical Users Constituency, for two terms on the Executive Committee
>for the Asia region, then delegated into the ICANN  Generic Names Support
>Organization's Council.
>
>Participated in the following ICANN meetings as member of the non-commercial
>constituency:
>
>1999/08 Santiago de Chile
>2000/07 Yokohama
>2000/11 Marina del Rey
>2001/03 Melbourne
>2001/09 Montevideo
>2001/11/ Marina del Rey
>2002/03 Accra
>2002/10 Shanghai
>2003/06 Montreal
>2004/07 Kuala Lumpur
>2004/12 Cape Town
>2005/04 Mar del Plata
>2005/07 Luxembourg
>2005/12 Vancouver
>2006/03 Wellington
>2006/06 Marrakech
>2006/12 São Paulo
>2007/03 Lisbon
>2007/06 Puerto Rico
>2007/10-11 Los Angeles
>2008/02 New Delhi
>
>
>Beyond ICANN
>
>2003 January - Asia-Pacific Regional Conference towards WSIS 2003
>
>2003 – negotiated annd achieved Cambodian NGO membership in the  Association
>for Progressive Communication (Cartagena/Colombia), serving one term as
>second representative on the APC Council
>
>2003  December First WSIS and  ICT4D Platform (presenter) in Geneva
>2004 March UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force Global
>Forum on Internet Governance, New York, contributing to the book "Internet
>Governance - Perspectives from Cambodia"
>
>2004 May UN ICT Task Force Regional Meeting on Internet Governance - Shanghai
>
>2004 June First Preparatory Committee for the 2nd UN World Summit for the
>Information Society  -  in Tunisia – 2005 in Geneva
>
>2005  December Second WSIS in Tunis
>
>
>2003 invited and continuing as Member of the Advisory Board of the "Institut
>francophone des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la formation,"
>of the Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie;  board meets normally
>twice per year – in Mauritius,  Cameroon, 
>Tunessia, Senegal, and several times
>in France.
>
>Author of the Cambodia chapters of the "Digital Review of Asia Pacific,"
>2003/2004 and 2005/2006, published by the Asia Pacific Development
>Information Program of UNDP, and the Pan Asia Networking of the International
>Development Research Program of Canada 
>(http<//<http://www.digital-review.org>www.digital-review.org)
>
>
>INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES:
>
>German - native
>English – fluent speaking, reading,, and writing
>French - working competence in speaking, reading, and writing
>Japanese –  working compeetence in speaking, reading, and writing
>Spanish – woorking competence in speaking, reading, and writing
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