Fwd: [council] New ICANN Board member - starting 30 April 2010- Mr Kuo-Wei Wu

[William Drake]

A pity to see Raimundo Beca go,  he was a friendly and inter alia helpful to us with NCSG formation;  a number of us wrote endorsements for his reelection.  At the same time, Kuo-Wei Wu's a good guy with whom I'd expect we also will be able to work well. 

I wonder how this will play in China...

Bill

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>
> Date: March 23, 2010 1:02:42 AM GMT-03:00
> To: "GNSO Council " <council at gnso.icann.org>
> Subject: [council] New ICANN Board member - starting 30 April 2010- Mr Kuo-Wei Wu 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> The ASO has announced that that Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has been elected by the
> Address Council to fill Seat Number 10 on the ICANN Board.
> 
> (see
> http://aso.icann.org/news/kuo-wei-wu-elected-to-seat-10-on-the-icann-boa
> rd/ ).
> 
> 
> I see that Mr Kuo-Wei Wu - has experience across ccTLDs (board member of
> .tw), gTLDs (Board member of .org), and IP addresses (member of
> Executive Council of APNIC).  He has the full set :-)
> 
> Below is a short biography.
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
> 
> 
> From:
> 
> http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2010-election/kuo-wei-
> wu/
> 
> 
> Short biography
> 
> Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has technical, management and policy experience in
> Internet-related industry.
> 
> He is the co-founders of TWNIC (.tw operator), APTLD, CDNC (Chinese
> Domain Name Consortium). He is currently board member of TWNIC (2000 ~
> now), APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association, 2008~2010) and PIR (.org
> operator, 2009~2011), and EC of APNIC (1999~now), TWIA (Taiwan Internet
> Association, 2008~2010), and COSA (Chinese Open System Association,
> 1995~now). He has experience in supervision, financial, and governance.
> 
> In regard to Internet-related management, Mr. Wu was the deputy director
> of NCHC (National Center for High-Performance Computing) from 1990~1998,
> where he was responsible for TANET (Taiwan Academic Network) backbone
> operation to serve all the universities, research institutions in Taiwan
> and a staff of over 120 people. He is the co-founder of Asia Pacific
> Supercomputer Center Consortium (HPC Asia) to lead the experience
> sharing over ten Asia Pacific Supercomputer Centers.
> 
> He started Internet-related works since he worked for Cray Research,
> Inc. (1984~1990), and a vice-president of Yam Digital, Inc. (One of the
> leading Internet Portal in Taiwan). When he was a vice-president of
> Acer, Inc.. he lead the Internet service business for Acer, Inc.
> (2000~2004). He actively involved in ICANN activities (GAC, ALS, ccNSO,
> ASO) since 1999 til now. He also actively participated UN/WSIS
> (2004~2005), and UN/IGF (2006~2009).
> 
> He is the CEO of NIIEPA (2004~now) - a non-profit organization in
> Taiwan. NIIEPA provide research and consultant services in Internet
> policy and Information security for government, research institutions,
> universities, and industry. 
> 
> Mr. Wu holds a mathematics BSc degree from Tunghai University (Taiwan,
> 1975), a MSc degree in Mathematics from University of Cincinnati (Ohio,
> USA, 1980), and MSc degree in Computer Science from Columbia University
> (NYC, 1982).
> 

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William J. Drake  
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
  Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
william.drake at graduateinstitute.ch
www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
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