Ms. Minjung park

Seoul, South Korea - Senior Research Associate, Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)

 

Short Bio

Minjung Park is in charge of international relations at KRNIC(Korea Network Inf ormation Center ) of KISA(Korea Internet & Security Agency).

Minjung joined KISA in 2004 and since then has been involved in developing both domestic and international policy for  IDN ccTLD. Ms.Park has been participating in ICANN and APTLD meetings since 2004 and was involved in most of the IDN ccTLD related WGs. Ms.Park was also deeply involved in developing registration policy for second level ASCII.kr in Korea which was successfully launched in 2006 and was in charge of implementing Korean ccTLD ‘ .한국’, which was also successfully launched in 2011. She received a Master of International Studies(M.I.S) from the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University and holds a Bachelor of Arts in French Literature and a Bachelor of Business Administration, both from Ewha Womans University.

Seoul, South Korea – Professor, Ewha Womans University

I have been working for the Korean Internet Governance Forum for a year with a close connection to the Korean Internet and Security Agency. Also I have been teaching as a professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Public Policy, Seoul National University of Technology for seven years. Now I am a professor at the department of political science and international relations, Ewha Womans University, where I am teaching global governance and internet policies.

Seoul, South Korea - Division Vice President, Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)

He is currently a division vice president of KISA(Korea Internet & Security Agency) and a director of KRNIC, .kr domain registry.
He has more than 20 years' experience in Internet development of Korea. He began his career in Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion(KADO) and worked actively to resolve digital divide issues in Korea.
After joining KISA in 2001, he has devoted himself to Internet address management and promotion.
He has extensive expertise in local Internet policies and Internet industry.
Now he's responsible for .kr/Korean IDN management and IPv6 promotion in Korea.

Seoul, South Korea – Chair – Korea Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA)

He is currently a professor at Inha University. He is teaching Internet policies at Graduate School of IT & Telecommunications.

He was a board member of DACOM( currently LG U+). He earned a bachelor of Engineering at Seoul National University, master of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of Tech and a PhD in Economics at University of Hawaii.
Mr. Adam Peake

Tokyo, Japan - Executive Research Fellow/Associate, Professor, GLOCOM, International University of Japan

Based in Tokyo, Adam Peake works on telecommunications, Internet and broadband policy, and Internet governance. Active in policy-making activities for the deployment and development of the Internet since the mid-1990s, he currently contributes to ICANN and the IGF. Chair of the 2011 ICANN Nominating Committee. Member of the UN Secretary-General's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) 2006 - 2008, currently part-time Consultant to IGF secretariat.

Lahore, Pakistan - Public Policy Analyst, Researcher and Advisor, Internet Research Project (Pakistan) Member Cohort-2012-13 at the Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Lahore

Fouad Bajwa has been actively engaged in ICT and Internet Public Policy related issues and advocacy for over a decade. He has been an entrepreneur, a social enterprise manager, an academic and researcher. His civil society and advocacy group regularly engages with Internet policy makers through face-to-face and media interventions that has facilitated the evolution of pluralism and dissent online. He was a participant in the WSIS process and a Member of the MAG of the Internet Governance Forum from 2009-2012. As a Public Policy Expert, Fouad engages with various organizations and initiatives in Pakistan and other regions on policy areas related to ICT4D, innovation, multi-sectoral and cross-cutting research. From 2004-2007 Fouad led the Free and Open Source Software FOSS movement in Pakistan that helped establish an open and parallel industry ecosystem in the country also featured during WSIS 2005. From 2007 to 2009, Fouad managed a US$160 million dollar ICT4D international partnership portfolio for a global low-cost computing program. Fouad has worked with various multilateral organizations carrying out technical capacity transfer missions in the areas of ICT4D, ICT Policy, Open Innovation and more recently was engaged as an internationally recruited consultant with ITU, UNCTAD and UNESCWA. He has been serving as the Co-Vice Chair of APRALO At-Large at ICANN from 2010-2012 and now from 2012-2014. Fouad advocates for an open and multisktakeholder ICT and Internet public policy processes in Pakistan and empirically monitors the growth of the Internet and DNS market in Pakistan.

Kathmandu, Nepal - Activist/Blogger, RayzNews 

An established writer, activist and blogger, Shreedeep Rayamajhi has been associated with online journalism for more than 10 years.  Starting his career as a main stream journalist from a national English daily and working his way towards travel writing he has brought issue of concerns by his hard lines and stories.

Pakistan - Director, (Head of Research and Project), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, GoP

Asif Kabani is an international governance expert he plays a key role in Internet governance policy debates and public policy development to Internet Governance and Development with particular focus on Sustainable Development with fostering relationships between Governments, businesses, civil society and academics. He has  more than 15 years of working experience with Government, donor, CSO and UN system including UN DESA, UN office Geneva at IGF, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNODC, and UNDP.  

Tokyo, Japan - Engineer

Rafik Dammak is young Tunisian working as computer engineer and living in Tokyo. He hold a degree in Computer Engineering from Engineering school in Tunisia  and Msc on applied computer science from the University of Tokyo. 

He is a DiploFoundation alumni after completion of the Internet Governance Capacity Building program. He is a former Creative Commons Tunisian license project  Public co-leader while he also followed an elearning program WIPO.  He has been involved in ICANN  community as NCUC (Non-commercial users constituency) individual user member , former elected GNSO Councillor for the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group and member of NCSG executive committee in addition to participation to several ICANN WGs like the new gTLD  applicant support or JAS WG where he is the co-chair. He is currently member of the ICANN nominating committee. He is involved on advocacy for Human Rights, privacy, freedom of expression. He become recently member of CSISAC steering committee, CSISAC is part of OECD ICCP.

Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR

Bangladesh - Chief Executive Officer, Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication &

 Member Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum
Short Bio

AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR is Chief Executive Officer and founder Secretary of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). BNNRC is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) of the United Nations.

Concerned with millions of people still deprived of basic needs and the benefits of Information and Communication Technology in Bangladesh, 2000 he founded Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) as a national networking body working for building a democratic society based on the principles of free flow of information, equitable & affordable access to Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) of remote & marginalized population. BNNRC is registered with NGO Affairs Bureau and Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of Bangladesh and established in 2000 as per Article 19 charter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

From 1998 - 2010, he headed an advocacy group on behalf of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) that pioneered the introduction of community radio in Bangladesh.

He graduated from University of Dhaka and Post graduated from Asian University of Bangladesh in the field of Social Science (MSS) in Government & Politics.

He currently member of Bangladesh Working Group on UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) headed by Bangladesh Government, Community Radio Monitoring Committee of Ministry of Information, People’s Republic of Bangladesh, founder member of Bangladesh UN Internet Governance Forum-headed by Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee   for Ministry of Post and Telecommunication and Research Fellow, Center for e-Parliament Research.

Taipei - Board Director, TWNIC

Dr. Kenny Huang is the leading figure of the Internet communities in Asia. Since the early years of Taiwan's Internet development, he contributed a great deal to build up a better Internet environment in Taiwan. Because of his tremendous knowledge and experience, he has been invited to take up leading roles in many Internet technology and policy organizations, including APNIC Executive Council member, APNIC Policy SIG Chair, Address Council member of ICANN ASO, Board Director of PIR (.org gTLD), Board Director of TWNIC (NIR & .tw ccTLD), Chair of TWNIC International Affair Committee, Board Director of MINC (Multilingual Internet Consortium), Advisory Council of dot Asia (.asia gTLD), New gTLD Review Group of ICANN, Founder of APAN TW, Board Director of ISOC Taipei and Executive Advisor of TWIA.

Singapore - Professor & Director, Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University

Professor Ang Peng Hwa is Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Ordering Chaos: Regulating the Internet (Thomson, 2005), which argues that the internet can be, is being and should be regulated.

He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and Oxford universities. In 2008, he spent his sabbatical in Ahmedabad, India, to help start a doctoral programme at the Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad.

He is interviewed regularly by the Singapore media and has also appeared in articles in the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, TIME magazine, and the Economist magazine’s Marketplace.


Mr. Izumi Aizu 

Tokyo, Japan -  Senior Research Fellow & Professor ,   Institute for InfoSocinomics, Tama University

Izumi Aizu is Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Institute for InfoSocinomics, Kumon Center, Tama University in Tokyo and Deputy Director at the Institute for HyperNetwork Society in Oita, Japan. He is also Co-Chairperson of Information Support pro bono Platform (iSPP), a coordination body for disaster relief works using ICT.

In 2004 he co-founded Internet Governance Task Force (IGTF) of Japan to engage in the debate on Internet Governance in the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance.

Tokyo, Japan – Director,  JPRS

Director of JPRS, a .JP ccTLD Registry, since 2001.  He is responsible for corporate planning and administration of JPRS.  He has actively

participated and lead discussions in ICANN as a ccNSO Councilor.  He is also known as his speciality in IDN and has been active in various Working Groups and Committees of ICANN.

Mr. SINGH, Rajnesh

Singapore - Regional Director, Asia-Pacific, Internet Society (ISOC)

Rajnesh Singh is Regional Director of the Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau at the Internet Society where he oversees projects, initiatives and activities across the Internet Society's functional and programmatic areas in the Asia and Pacific region, including Public Policy, Capacity Building and Internet Standards and Technology.

Rajnesh has worked extensively with the Asia-Pacific Internet community, and has held several leadership roles, including Founding Chair of ICANN's Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO) and Chair of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society. He has worked extensively on ICT policy, training and capacity building in the region, including delivering programmes for UN agencies.

Taipei, Taiwan - Co-founder, Fertta Communications

Social entrepreneur, #OpenGov #OpenData #ICT in Taiwan, TH Schee has kicked off 3 startups, 2 NPOs in the besieged yet vibrant and democratic island, and survived a solo motorcycle ride across Australia at 15. He has pioneered several social/mobile web projects and his works directly inspired several web campaigns in domestic elections since 2001.

Brisbane, Australia - Community Grants and Awards Specialist, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)

Brisbane, Australia - Director General, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)

Paul Wilson has over twenty years’ involvement with the Internet, including 12 years’ service as Director General of APNIC, one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), responsible for the distribution and management of IP addresses and related critical Internet resources for the Asia-Pacific region.

In his current role, Paul represents the activities and interests of the Asia Pacific Internet community in local and global forums related to the technical development and management of the Internet. As a non-profit body within the Internet technical community, the role and importance of APNIC is well-known.

Prior to joining APNIC, Paul accumulated over ten years experience in the Internet industry, including work with business, civil society and technical sector organisations.

From 1989, Paul helped establish the first independent ISP in Australia, serving from 1992 to 1997 as CEO. During this time, he helped establish the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and served as an APC Council and Executive Board member.

Also during the 1990s Paul undertook work on ICT projects for UN and other international agencies. In 1992, he joined the APC technical team providing Internet services to the Rio Earth Summit.  From 1994, he helped establish IDRC’s Pan Asia Networking (PAN) Program, which introduced and developed Internet services in many developing Asian economies. He continued work on PAN projects in countries including Mongolia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, PNG, and China; and on similar activities in several countries of Latin America.

Paul is today a highly experienced and respected member of the global Internet community, with a record of service on boards and committees of groups including: Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA), Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG), Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF), Number Resource Organization (NRO), Internet Society (ISOC) Advisory Committee, DotAsia Organisation (.Asia) Advisory Committee, and Association for Progressive Communications (APC).

Australia – Chair Elect of the 2013 Nominating Comittee at ICANN

Cheryl has recently been appointed as a consumer advocate representative to the Australian Communications Compliance (CommCom) Advisory Committee a new independent code monitoring (and reporting) body, that is to ensure that Carriage Service Providers (CSPs)  in Australia are compliant with the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) Code.

Late in 2012 she was appointed as the Chair Elect of the 2013 Nominating Committee by the ICANN Board  "Resolved (2012.10.03.06), the Board adopts the recommendation of the BGC and hereby appoints Yrjö Juhani Länsipuro as the 2013 NomCom Chair and Cheryl Langdon-Orr as the 2013 NomCom Chair-Elect."  and is currently the ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO (2010 -2012) http://ccnso.icann.org/ ccNSO Liaison Reporting page ALAC ccNSO Liaison Wiki .  Having served as a Vice Chair of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) 2010-2011), after three terms (2007-10) as  ALAC Chair. Within At-Large she represents ISOC-AU as an ICANN accredited At-Large Structure (ALS) in ICANN's Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO) and APRALO in the ALAC, has been reappointed to serve a second two year term (2009 - 2011) for APRALO in the ALAC. As Chair of the ALAC she was appointed to serve on the 1st Affirmation of Commitments Review Team for ICANN looking at Accountability and Transparency. http://icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/review-1-en.htm;  Within the ICANN Community Cheryl has served on a number of  Working Groups, Work Teams and Task Forces (listed and linked below.   My ALAC / At-Large Statement of Interest (SOI) is found here Cheryl Langdon-Orr SOI  and my GNSO Statement of Interest (SOI) found  here  Cheryl Langdon-Orr GNSO - SOI
Ms. Hong XUE

Beijing, China - Director of Institute for the Internet Policy & Law; Professor, Beijing Normal University

Dr. Hong Xue is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Institute for the Internet Policy & Law at Beijing Normal University (BNU). Prof. Xue is an elected Top Ten Nationally Distinguished Young Jurists by the China Law Society. She is an invited professor to teach at Torino Law School-WIPO Master of Laws in Intellectual Property and works with the World Intellectual Property Academy to provide training for Intellectual Property officers from developing countries. Prof. Xue was the Residential Fellow of Yale Information Society Project and is the Chinese Lead for Global Academy on Access to Knowledge. She is the Faculty Chair of Asia Pacific Internet Leadership Project (APILP). She is on the Editorial Board of World Intellectual Property Journal, the Advisory Panel of the Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, the Expert Advisory Board of Diplo Foundation. She is in the United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific (UNNExT). She is an arbitrator at CIETAC, UDRP neutral at WIPO and ADNDRC. She is WIPO-appointed panelists for Legal Rights Objection (LRO) procedure in ICANN new gTLD program. She is an ICANN ccNSO councilor and the Chair of Council of Chinese Domain Name Users Alliance. She is on the Board of China Copyright Society and Advisor to the Ministry of Commerce on Electronic Commerce. Her latest book is "International Intellectual Property Law @ Crossroad" published by China Law Press in 2012.

Daejeon, South Korea – Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST)

Dr. Dong-Man Lee is the Dean of School of Culture Technology in KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) since Apr. 2011.

He organized a workshop on multicast technology twice every year from 2001 to 2006 whose outcomes were proposed to IETF and ITU-T as standards. He served as a program committee member for KRNET, the largest conference on the Internet in Korea from 2000. Since 2004, he has also served as a board member of OSIA (Open Standard and Internet Association) and the chair of its Multicast WG.

He has been very active in Internet governance and research collaboration locally and internationally. From 1998 to 2001, he was a member and the chair for the committee in charge of .kr domain names. From Dec. 2002 to Jul. 2004, he was the chair for the Internet name and address committee, and from Dec. 2005 to Jan. 2007 and Dec. 2009 to 2012 he has been appointed as Chair of Korea Internet policy forum, which worked on developing a framework for personal domains, regional domains, and Korean-language domains. He is also serving as Chair of Internet Address Review Committee of MSIP(Ministry of Science and ICT and Future Planning) in Korea. He has participated as the Korean representative to ICANN multiple times.

Hong Kong, China – CEO, DotAsia Organisation

Edmon Chung is serving as the CEO for DotAsia Organisation and as Vice Chair for Internet Society HK Chapter. Edmon is also an elected member of the Elections Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, an elected member of the ICANN ALAC (Atl-Large Advisory Committee) and a former councillor of the ICANN GNSO Council. Edmon currently Co-Chairs the ICANN Joint ccNSO/GNOS IDN Working Group (JIG) and the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group (IRD-WG).

Songdo, Korea – Professor, SUNY Korea

Ms. Youn Jung Park holds a Ph.D in Information, Science and Technology. She works at Department of Technology and Society, SUNY Korea, in Songdo, Korea, as professor. Her main research is Internet Governance related institutions including ICANN, ITU, WSIS, IGF and participation of different stakeholders in such institutions.