<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi all ,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm absolutely agree with Alejandro comments . <br>We (ISOC Chapters ) need to know the candidate statement specially who have got the nomination on behalf of chapter also their future initiative for chapter development . Besides Nomination committee can organize a remote session  with all candidate for further discussion  .<br><br><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards /<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Jahangir Hossain<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Alejandro Pisanty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apisanty@gmail.com" target="_blank">apisanty@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dave,<div><br></div><div>in case anyone wonders what we need to know from candidates' background, probably the distllate is this: how free and independent are they to speak, act and vote on ISOC issues? What are their constraints from employers or cllients? What does their track record say about this? </div><div><br></div><div>There are degrees of compromise, of course. A person representing a government officially in related decisions or policy guidance is very heavily compromised; a public servant so-so and to be determined in more detail. An employee of a company; an official of the company, severe restraints. Any other thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Better clear this soon.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Alejandro Pisanty</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Dave Burstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com" target="_blank">daveb@dslprime.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Kevin and candidates</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I hope that biographical information will include details of income received from companies, organizations and governments affected by Internet issues. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The medical people have shown quite decisively that funding has affected results and publication bias. All major journals have disclosures at the bottom of most articles of such funding. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Taking money does not mean you are biased. Vint works for Google and Jason for Comcast, but both have proven to me they put the public interest first.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">But transparency is important. Currently, I'm pretty sure that one ICANN board member has close business ties to a entity funded by ICANN, undisclosed. One key actor in IGF refuses to disclose sources of income, which I believe is predominantly a large company. One active ISOC person I believe has been funded directly or indirectly by the U.S. government and taken position nearly always in line with the U.S. Gov. (I'm being obscure because things like this require strong proof before being detailed publicly.) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Meanwhile, here are a few basics from my quick web search. I note that several have close ties to the UN, which some of us believe is trying to take over the Internet. (Not me.)  Several have ties to what most of us consider authoritarian governments. Several are consultants in our field and I don't know who their clients are. Are they risking their income if they support Net Neutrality?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Others receive substantial income, directly or indirectly, from ICANN. The role of ICANN is clearly a top policy question and there are important financial ties between ISOC and ICANN. ISOC strongly supported ICANN against the U.N./ITU. We already receive 80+% of our income as the ICANN-designated .org outfit. We have to be very careful here. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">None of which disqualifies anyone. I know Narelle well enough to believe she considered these issues.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:10.2857px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;width:960px;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-image:url("");background-repeat:no-repeat"><div style="margin:0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline;float:left;width:700px"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><h1 style="margin:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-family:DroidSerifRegular,Georgia,sans-serif;font-size:2.33em;color:rgb(101,119,130);font-style:inherit;padding:30px 0px 25px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.3;vertical-align:baseline">CAVALLI Olga</h1></div></div><div style="margin:0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline;float:left;width:220px"></div><div style="margin:0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline;float:left;width:220px;text-align:right"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word;display:inline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12px;line-height:10.2857px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;width:960px;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><div style="margin:0px 10px;padding:15px 0px;border-width:1px 0px 0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(213,213,213);font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline;float:left;width:940px"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:10px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline;float:left;width:700px;margin-left:0px!important"><p style="font-family:inherit;font-size:0.9166em;margin:0px;line-height:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(101,119,130)"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:10.9992px;vertical-align:baseline">YOU ARE HERE</em> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/gsw/201512/Pages/CAVALLI-Olga.aspx#ctl00_SiteMapPath1_SkipLink" style="color:rgb(55,137,189);text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit;margin:0px 15px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><img alt="Skip Navigation Links" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" height="0" width="0"></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx" style="color:rgb(55,137,189);text-decoration:none;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 the Special Commission appointed by the Government of Argentina for the Cybercrime Law and a leading member of the commission that developed the National Digital Agenda of Argentina.<br>Since 2007 she is co-founder and Academic Director of the South School on Internet Governance, pioneering program that grants fellowships to students in Latin America and the Caribbean to receive an intensive face to face training in Internet Governance. (<a href="http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/%29Since" style="color:rgb(55,137,189);text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">http://www.gobernanzainternet.org/)Since</a> 2012 Dr. Cavalli is the Academic Director of CCAT-LAT and Dominios Latinoamerica, <a href="http://www.dominios/" style="color:rgb(55,137,189);text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">www.dominios</a> <a href="http://latinoamerica.co" target="_blank">latinoamerica.co</a><br><br>Ms. Cavalli is a PHD in Business Direction, MBA, Master in Telecommunication Regulation and Electronic and Electric Engineer. She is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese and German.<br>She lives in Buenos Aires and is the mother of Juana and Federico.</p><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;font-weight:inherit;line-height:normal;margin-bottom:30px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(231,231,231);border-bottom-style:solid"><div style="float:left;margin-left:20px"><h1 style="font-size:1.31rem;margin:0.5rem 0px;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;text-transform:capitalize;float:left;padding-top:0px;font-weight:500!important">Mohamed El Bashir, Msc., MBA</h1><div style="float:left;padding-left:15px"></div><h2 style="padding-top:0px;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;clear:both;margin:0.5rem 0px;text-transform:capitalize;font-weight:500!important">Internet Policy, Governance And Technology</h2><h2 style="padding-top:20px;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;clear:both;margin:0.5rem 0px;text-transform:capitalize;font-weight:500!important"><span style="display:inline-block;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit;margin-right:5px"></span>Qatar</h2><h2 style="padding-top:20px;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1rem;clear:both;margin:0.5rem 0px;text-transform:capitalize;font-weight:500!important"></h2><ul style="padding:0px;list-style-type:none;width:314.518px;margin-bottom:40px"><li style="display:inline;text-align:center;margin-right:8px"><a href="http://twitter.com/https://twitter.com/hope4alll" style="color:rgb(0,152,213);text-decoration:none;width:30px;min-height:30px;border-radius:30px;display:inline-block;padding:4px 0px 0px 1px;background:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank"><span style="display:inline-block;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit;color:white;margin-top:0.2rem"></span></a></li><li style="display:inline;text-align:center;margin-right:8px"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/hope4all" style="color:rgb(0,152,213);text-decoration:none;width:30px;min-height:30px;border-radius:30px;display:inline-block;padding:4px 0px 0px 1px;background:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank"><span style="display:inline-block;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit;color:white;margin-top:0.2rem"></span></a></li><li style="display:inline;text-align:center;margin-right:8px"><a href="http://about.me/mohamedelbashir" style="color:rgb(0,152,213);text-decoration:none;width:30px;min-height:30px;border-radius:30px;display:inline-block;padding:4px 0px 0px 1px;background:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank"><span style="display:inline-block;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:inherit;color:white;margin-top:0.2rem"></span></a></li><li style="display:inline;text-align:center;margin-right:8px"><a href="http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Mohamed_El_Bashir" style="color:rgb(0,152,213);text-decoration:none;width:30px;min-height:30px;border-radius:30px;display:inline-block;padding:4px 0px 0px 1px;background:rgb(4,123,193)" target="_blank"><span style="display:inline-block;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;font-size:15px;color:white;margin-top:0.2rem"></span></a></li></ul></div></div><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;font-weight:inherit;line-height:normal;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;width:614.384px;padding-bottom:40px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(229,229,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t:1.4rem;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit">The Emir of Qatar issued an Emiri Decree (27) in February 2014 establishing an independent Communications Regulatory Authority "CRA", CRA was part of The Supreme Council of Information & Communications Technology "ictQATAR" ( Same position as since 2012 but a change of organization structure ). Managing the Technical Affairs Department and Reporting to Regulatory Authority President, responsible for all technical matters/regulations related to the Telecom sector and licensed service providers in the State of Qatar. Managing the following functional units : - Internet Section ( Qatar Domains Registry, IPv6 Migration, Internet Technologies, ..etc) - Numbering Management Section ( Numbers Allocations, Mobile/Fixed Numbering Portability ) - Interconnection and Access Section ( Infrastructure </span>Roll-out<span style="line-height:1.4rem;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit">, Mobile Sites, ..etc ) - Next Generation Technologies Section ( IXP, NGN, ..etc ) - Quality of Service Section ( Establishing a new Monitoring/Compliance function of the QoS Framework )</span></p></div><ul style="padding:0px;list-style-type:none"><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;line-height:normal;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(231,231,231);border-radius:1px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:10px 0px"><p style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(153,153,153)">2014-02-01 - Present</p></li><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;line-height:normal;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(231,231,231);border-radius:1px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:10px 0px"><img alt="0ef6563" style="border:0px;padding-bottom:15px"><h4 style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.31rem;margin:0px 0px 2px;font-weight:500!important">dotAfrica <abbr title="Top Level Domain" style="font-weight:inherit;direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">TLD</abbr> Project</h4><p style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 16px">Chairman, The Steering Committee - <span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Internet</span></p><p style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 2px;padding-bottom:10px">Chairing the Steering Committee of dotAfrica <abbr title="Top Level Domain" style="font-weight:inherit;direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">TLD</abbr> project, the steering committee consist of Internet Experts and Pioneers from Africa representing all the African Internet Community stakeholders ( Private Sector, Government, Academia, Technical, ..etc ) . The dotAfrica <abbr title="Top Level Domain" style="font-weight:inherit;direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">TLD</abbr> is proposed as a new <abbr title="generic Top Level Domain" style="font-weight:inherit;direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">gTLD</abbr> (Generic Top Level Domain) for the promotion of African business, people and culture on the Internet. The Project is endorsed by The African Union "AU", AU strongly believes that the introduction of the dotAfrica <abbr title="generic Top Level Domain" style="font-weight:inherit;direction:ltr;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(153,153,153)">gTLD</abbr> will create an attractive regional home for the Pan-African Internet community. As the first sponsored registry to be operating from Africa and, therefore, serving the specific needs of its communities, dotAfrica will echo ongoing operation and the successes of other community TLDs such as dotEU (dotEuropa) and dotAsia that have created a new Internet identity for their users and businesses which seek more regional presence without being confined within the limits of one country.</p><p style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(153,153,153)">2012-01-01 - Present</p></li><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:16px;line-height:normal;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(231,231,231);border-radius:1px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:10px 0px"><img alt="3774a0d" style="border:0px;padding-bottom:15px"><h4 style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.31rem;margin:0px 0px 2px;font-weight:500!important">Regulatory Authority - Qatar's Supreme Council for Information & Communications Technology</h4><p style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 16px">Manager, Technical Affairs Department - <span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Information Technology and Services</span></p><p style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 2px;padding-bottom:10px">Managing all the technical affairs related to licened service providers in the state of Qatar and the telecom sector in General in the Communications Regulatory Authority. Responsibilities include : - Fixed/Broadband Infrastructure Roll-out - Numbering Allocations Management - Qatar Domains Registry ( <a href="http://www.domains.qa" target="_blank">www.domains.qa</a> ) - Mobile and Fixed Numbering Portability Implementation - Internet Infrastructure/Technologies ( e.g VoIP, Broadband, ..etc ) - Interconnection Management - Next Generation Technologies - Mobile Sites Construction and sharing</p></li><li style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:normal;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(231,231,231);border-radius:1px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:10px 0px"><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 2px;padding-bottom:10px"><span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:17.92px;text-align:right"><font size="4">Andrei Kolesnikov</font></span></p></li><li style="border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(231,231,231);border-radius:1px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:10px 0px"><div style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;border:0px;text-align:right;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">As a telecommunications engineer in the joint venture of All-Union Research Institute of Applied Automatic Systems (AUIAAS) and "San-Francisco-Moscow Teleport" (SFMT), in 1991, he introduced an e-mail system with direct terminal access and internet channel connecting computers of AUIAAS and research networks in the USA. In 1992, this system became the part of national e-mail system that united Demos, Relcom, Glasnet and other internet service providers.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"> </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">In 1993, Andrei Kolesnikov was among the 8 representatives of the internet service providers who signed an agreement, which led to the delegation of country code top level domain .RU.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"> </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">In 1994, Andrei Kolesnikov participated in development of the first license for telematics, and in 1995, he led the launch of the first Russian mass internet service "Russia-On-Line". ROL was the largest internet dial-up access service provider in Russia with access services deployed in more than 80 cities nationwide.</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"> </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">In 2000, Andrei Kolesnikov represented Russia in ECOSOC where he participated in development of the first international concept on information and communications technologies subsequently adopted by the leaders of G8 countries in Okinawa as "Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society.”</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"> </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">From 2005 to 2009 Andrei Kolesnikov was a Council member of Coordination Center for TLD RU, Russian national registry. He served as deputy media director of VympelCom, the Russian telecom giant. Since March 2009, Andrei Kolesnikov has become CEO of Coordination Center for TLD RU. </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"> </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">Andrei Kolesnikov is a recognized expert and internet activist, and a "Runet veteran.” He is a member of program and expert committees of major Russian internet forums and conferences. In 2010, he became one of initiators of launching Euro-Asian Network Operators Group (ENOG). </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial"> </p><p style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-align:left;color:rgb(46,46,46);font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1.1em;vertical-align:top;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">At the international level, Andrei Kolesnikov advocates Russia’s more active engagement in governance and development of the Internet, represents interests of Russian internet community and regularly contributes to international conferences and global forums, such as IGF, ICANN, RIPE, CENTR, APTLD, ITU meetings, and others. In 2009, Andrey Kolesnikov was elected to gNSO Board and became the first Russian expert who joined ICANN’s governing bodies.</p><h3 style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(67,70,73);line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 23px;padding:10px 0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;text-align:start;background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:normal;background-color:transparent"><font size="4">John Laprise </font></span></h3><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;text-align:start;background-color:transparent"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit"><h5 style="padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:16px;color:rgb(67,70,73);float:right;width:100px;text-align:center"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/3738519?trk=prof-exp-company-name" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(67,70,73);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit" target="_blank"><img alt="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:in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the national 2015 meeting by analyzing social media trends, identifying key actors and hashtags, sharing relevant content, and creating new content for targeted audiences resulting in a successful strongly attended conference with significant follower and interaction growth. Working with the Good Judgement Project and TechCast Global, I conducted rigorous open source research to forecast social, political and technological trends. My accurate insights led to continued participation in both groups along with invited blogs. As a columnist and OpEd writer for InsideSources, I have written cogent essays on pressing technological and political issues which have been picked up in wider syndication. Quantitatively, I conducted statistical analysis of a large data set to a research client measuring global Internet readiness. This analysis revealed unseen relationships within the data set resulting in a significant revision of the final research before its publication and a strengthening of its findings. As a contributor to the hi:project, I have identified new start-up funding sources through online research and brought a global user perspective to discussions of UX, influencing project messaging.</p><dl style="margin:5px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:14px;clear:both;overflow:hidden"><dt style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px 6px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:13px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;float:none;clear:left"><span style="padding:0px;border-width:4px 0px 4px 4px;border-style:dashed dashed dashed solid;border-color:transparent transparent transparent rgb(83,83,83);font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:middle;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;min-height:0px;width:0px;display:inline-block;zoom:1;white-space:nowrap;overflow:hidden">(Open)</span>1 project</dt></dl></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;line-height:17px;margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-stretch:inherit;text-align:start;background-color:transparent"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><h5 style="padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:16px;color:rgb(67,70,73);float:right;width:100px;text-align:center"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/1860?trk=prof-exp-company-name" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(67,70,73);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit" target="_blank"><img alt="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"></a></h5><h4 style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:middle;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:18px;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline;zoom:1"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/title/internet-governance-forum-secretariat-best-practices-consultant?trk=mprofile_title" title="Learn more about this title" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit" target="_blank">Internet Governance Forum Secretariat Best Practices Consultant</a></h4><h5 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:16px;color:rgb(67,70,73)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/1860?trk=prof-exp-company-name" dir="auto" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(67,70,73);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit" target="_blank">United Nations</a></span></span></h5><span style="margin:3px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inher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t-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(67,70,73);font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit" target="_blank">ictQATAR</a></span></span></h5><span style="margin:3px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;display:block;color:rgb(102,105,106)">June 2012 – July 2014 (2 years 2 months)<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">Doha, Qatar</span></span><p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit">As a Consulting Scholar for ictQATAR, the information technology and telecommunications regulator and policy maker of the State of Qatar, I provided a range of expertise and capacity building to the organization and nationally. As a member of the National Broadband Plan steering committee, my efforts and contributions led to the adoption of a low income tariff. Advising on intellectual property, I produced policy guidance that incorporated local cultural norms into national policy and law. As an internal expert, I managed quantitative projects and insured product quality and applicability for ictQATAR resulting in improved reporting of key national metrics. As a facilitator, I ran multiple internal seminars and classes for staff members on policy analysis and policy making processes as well as commenting on existing processes. This work resulted in improved efficiency and effectiveness of policy making processes.</p></div></div><br>Experience</div></div></div></li></ul><div style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-family:inherit;text-align:right"><font color="#2e2e2e"><span style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.92px"><b><br></b></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><h1 style="margin:9px 0px 1em;padding:10px 0px 10px 20px;font-size:2.2rem;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:1.1;clear:both;background:rgb(0,159,223)">Mr. Harish Pillay</h1><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr"><h4 style="font-size:23px;margin:14px 0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.1;clear:both">Global head of Community Architecture and Leadership</h4><div style="font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr"><a href="http://www.redhat.com/en" style="color:rgb(0,159,223);text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit" target="_blank">Red Hat Inc.</a></div><div style="font-size:14px;margin:0px 1.25em 0.75em 0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;float:left"><img alt="" style="min-height:auto;max-width:100%" height="213" width="312"></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;direction:ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;direction:ltr;line-height:1.35em;font-stretch:normal;color:rgb(99,102,106)">Harish has been in the IT industry for over 25 years. He is currently with Red Hat heading up a team that engages with the global open source community. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering both from Oregon State University. He is a pioneer of Internet related activities in Singapore since 1991 and is also the founder of the Linux Users’ Group (Singapore) setup in 1993. Harish is a Fellow of the Singapore Computer Society and a Distinguished Partner awardee from SPRING Singapore. Presently, he is also serving as president of Internet Society Singapore Chapter. </p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">----------------------</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Kevin Craemer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craemer@isoc.org" target="_blank">craemer@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Raúl,<br>
Biographical information on all the candidates will be available here soon:<br>
<a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/2016-board-trustees-nominees" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/2016-board-trustees-nominees</a><br>
<br>
The Elections Committee will also again hold a Candidate Forum for Chapters on Connect, enabling you to ask questions of the candidates.  Watch for information on the Forum once the petition period ends.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Kevin Craemer<br>
<a href="mailto:craemer@isoc.org" target="_blank">craemer@isoc.org</a><br>
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> On Feb 22, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. <<a href="mailto:crg@isoc-cr.org" target="_blank">crg@isoc-cr.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Thank you Narelle!<br>
><br>
> for the benefit of our local chapters Board, would you be so kind as to offer the links of each candidates Statements of Interest, endorsements and related affiliation please?<br>
><br>
> thank you very much<br>
><br>
> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez<br>
> ISOC Costa Rica<br>
> <a href="tel:%2B506%208837%207176" value="+50688377176" target="_blank">+506 8837 7176</a><br>
> Skype: carlos.raulg<br>
> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)<br>
> On 22 Feb 2016, at 13:22, Narelle Clark wrote:<br>
><br>
>> [Reposting]<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> After careful deliberation by the Nominations Committee, I am pleased to<br>
>> announce the following candidates for election.<br>
>><br>
>> Chapters Election<br>
>> Olga Cavalli<br>
>> Mohamed El Bashir<br>
>> Andrey Kolesnikov<br>
>><br>
>> Organizations Election<br>
>> John Laprise<br>
>> Desiree Miloshevic<br>
>> Harish Pillay<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Best regards<br>
>><br>
>> Narelle Clark<br>
>> Chair Nominations Committee<br>
>> ISOC Board of Trustees<br>
>> _______________________________________________<br>
>> As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>
>> to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society<br>
>> Chapter Portal (AMS): <a href="https://portal.isoc.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://portal.isoc.org</a><br>
> _______________________________________________<br>
> As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>
> to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society<br>
> Chapter Portal (AMS): <a href="https://portal.isoc.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://portal.isoc.org</a><br>
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_______________________________________________<br>
As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>
to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society<br>
Chapter Portal (AMS): <a href="https://portal.isoc.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://portal.isoc.org</a></div></div></blockquote></div><span><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Editor, Fast Net News, Net Policy News and DSL Prime<br>Author with Jennie Bourne  DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)</div></div>
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As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>
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As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed<br>
to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society<br>
Chapter Portal (AMS): <a href="https://portal.isoc.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://portal.isoc.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards / Jahangir</span></i><br></div></div><br><div><div><div>     <br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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