Council Nominations: Joy Liddicoat and Wolfgang Kleinwachter

[nhklein]

I support these two nominations - the background descriptions say what 
has to be said to justify the nominations.


Norbert Klein

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On 09/07/2011 07:47 PM, William Drake wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am please to nominate for the open Council seats two outstanding 
> civil society scholar/activists, Joy Liddicoat and Wolfgang Kleinwachter.
>
> Joy is the Project Co-ordinator for Internet Rights are Human Rights 
> for the Association for Progressive Communication, a NCUC 
> organizational member.  Joy is lawyer who's been a long-time activist 
> on human rights on the Internet and beyond, and she's also involved in 
> DNS issues and well attuned to the ICANNsphere.  At present she also 
> serves Director of the Domain Name Commission, InternetNZ, the 
> non-profit multistakeholder body responsible for managing .nz and 
> related Internet issues in New Zealand, so she brings to the table an 
> understanding of public interest aspects of the ccTLD space as well. 
>  A strong human rights orientation has generally been lacking in ICANN 
> and the GNSO, so she'd be filling an important gap.  At the same time, 
> it would be good to further engage in NCSG the APC, which as probably 
> everyone knows is the probably the largest NGO, a multinational 
> network, doing civil society activism around Internet and ICT issues. 
>  More about Joy here 
> http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/joy-liddicoat/11/233/745 and APC here 
> http://www.apc.org.
>
> Wolfgang is probably known to most members, as he's an individual NCUC 
> member who's attended I believe all but one or two ICANN meetings 
> since its founding and has served most recently as the chair of 
> Nomcom.  He's a leading scholar on global Internet governance and 
> ICANN who's been very involved with not only ICANN but the civil 
> society coalitions involved in the WSIS and IGF.  He is a professor at 
> the University of Aarhus, the organizer of the annual ICANN 
> Studienkreis conference, the organizer of the European Summer School 
> on Internet Governance, a founder along with Milton myself and others 
> of the Global Internet Governance Academic Networks, and so on.  Like 
> Joy, he has the background and disposition to be a great Councilor for 
> the NCSG.  More about Wolfgang here http://www.intgov.net/persons/52
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
>
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> William J. Drake
> International Fellow
> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
> University of Zurich, Switzerland
> william.drake at uzh.ch <mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch>
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