Council nomination-Wendy Seltzer and Rafik Dammak

[Konstantinos Komaitis]

(apologies for resending the message - forgot to put the nominees' names on the subject line)

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.


Wendy is a Fellow with Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, previously Fellow with the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado and with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Wendy founded and developed the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse<http://www.chillingeffects.org/>, 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 The Tor Project<https://www.torproject.org/>, supporting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology, and the World Wide Web Foundation, dedicated to empowering people through Web technology. She served on the ICANN<http://www.icann.org/> 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: http://wendy.seltzer.org/

Rafik is a 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: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rafikdammak

Thank you



KK


Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,

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University of Strathclyde,
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