Nomcom nominations

[Norbert Klein]

On Monday, 25 August 2008 23:17:37 Milton L Mueller wrote:

> My understanding is that three people have been publicly nominated for
> the Nominating Committee positions:
>
> In order of receipt they are:
> 1.	Kim Heitman, EFF Australia
> 2.	Cheryl Preston, CP80 Foundation
> 3.	Norbert Klein, Open Institute of Cambodia

[snip]

> The Executive Committee makes the selection, we do not have a membership
> vote. However, over the next three days I would ask all nominees to
> provide a bio about themselves to the public list, and I would encourage
> all members who support specific nominees to express it on the list
> along with their reasons.

Thanks, Milton.

Here is my bio:

Norbert Klein
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)

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


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 Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia and in 2000 Yokohama/Japan

Regional Asia – participating in several Asia Pacific Networking Group
events – APNG - (2002 and 2005 also presenting) – and Asia Pacific Regional
Internet Conference on Operational Technologies - APRICOT – in some years 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 and 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, Tunesia, 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<//www.digital-review.org)


INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES:

German - native
English – fluent speaking, reading, and writing
French - working competence in speaking, reading, and writing
Japanese –  working competence in speaking, reading, and writing
Spanish – working competence in speaking, reading, and writing