Ala'a Al-Din J. Kadhem Al-Radhi, Independent Consultant (Jordan) [+/-]
Ala'a Al-Din J. Kadhem Al-Radhi is a senior consultant engineer in IT telecommunications systems with a special focus on IT social engineering and security development. Currently residing in Jordan, he has worked and trained in several countries. His 25 years of experience span various governmental, intergovernmental and private enterprises in Iraq, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and France. He has served in several capacities including information systems manager with CIPE (Center for International Private Enterprise); IT/system administrator with Shaw Group Environment USA/Iraq Projects; senior observer/engineer with UN - ITU (International Telecommunications Union)/Iraq program; engineering/marketing manager with Capri Wood Computers, Dubai UAE; and IT/computer work with Bechtel, the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and various private/business firms.
Al-Radhi believes in strengthening the Internet, especially for noncommercial uses. He is fully committed to best practices that advocate Internet stability and security to ensure a strong and secure environment for the global .ORG community.
Angela Siefer, Grassroots.org (USA - Ohio) [+/-]
Angela Siefer is the Executive Director of
Grassroots.org, a national nonprofit dedicated to initiating social change by providing free services to nonprofit organizations. Grassroots.org provides nonprofits with access to online applications, Web site hosting, domain registration, legal incorporation assistance and business best practices to help them achieve their goals effectively and efficiently. Grassroots also utilizes more than 50 high-profile domain names to encourage individual social action.
Siefer served as Executive Director of the Ohio Community Computing Network (OCCN) for six years. OCCN is a member-driven organization supporting community technology to promote full participation in a digital world. OCCN is committed to ensuring that every Ohioan can make full use of modern computing and networking technology for personal and community empowerment and enrichment. OCCN has distributed more than $5 million to community technology programs in Ohio. The organization grew in size, reach and influence under Siefer's guidance. Siefer's dedication and vision have helped OCCN gain local and national media attention for its advocacy and programming successes.
She began her work in the field of community technology as a graduate student at the University of Toledo. While there she worked as the project coordinator for CATNeT, Ohio's first citywide network of community technology centers.
Siefer has received a number of honors for her visionary work in the field of community technology. In 2004, the John Glenn Institute named her one of its first Social Capital Scholars. In 2005, Stuber received the inaugural Midwest Community Networking Award. In 2006, she provided testimony to the U.S. Senate regarding the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Siefer has served on numerous voluntary boards. She is currently the board president for
CTCNet, a national network of community technology centers. She also serves on the Advisory Council for the Public Interest Registry for the .org domain.
On the personal side, Ms. Siefer has two children. She is a Black Belt in TaeKwonDo and a Yellow Belt in Krav Maga.
Dave Kissoondoyal, Teleforma Mauritius, Ltd (Mauritius) [+/-]
Dave Kissoondoyal is an associate of the Chartered Management Institute of the United Kingdom. Although he is employed as the information technology director at Teleforma Mauritius Ltd (a U.S. offshore company in Mauritius), Kissoondoyal is very much involved with the affairs of the Internet Society Chapter of Mauritius. In fact, he is the founder, president and chairman of the
Internet Society of Mauritius. His primary objective as president is to promote the Internet. Under his chairmanship, the Internet Society Chapter of Mauritius was nominated as one of the three finalists in 2002 and 2004 for the e-Achievers Award on the African continent. This award goes to an African institution or company that promotes e-enablement within Africa.
Kissoondoyal has always been involved in noncommercial and volunteer activities. He is a member of Save the Children Mauritius and has held the positions of secretary, treasurer and president (CEO). He also was nominated for his work in a noncommercial environment as one of the three finalists for Most Outstanding Young Person of the year in 1996 and in 2003 for the Republic of Mauritius (by the Jeune Chambre Economique de L'ile Maurice, an affiliate of Junior Chamber International). Kissoondoyal has been one of the ambassadors of the Internet Society for the World Summit on the Information Society.
Dr. Milton Mueller, Syracuse University, NCUC Representative (USA - New York) [+/-]
Dr. Milton Mueller teaches and does research on the political economy of communication and information. He uses the theoretical tools of property rights analysis, institutional economics and both historical and quantitative social science methods. He has a longstanding interest in the history of communication technologies and global governance institutions. Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.
Mueller's most recent research projects explore the efforts of citizens and activists to shape communication and information policy, both globally and nationally. His acclaimed book Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2002) was the first scholarly account of the Internet governance debates. His book, Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System (MIT Press, 1997) set out a dramatic revision of our understanding of the origins of universal telephone service and the role of interconnection in industry development.
His research has been cited and utilized by policymakers in the US, Europe, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. He is on the international editorial boards of the journals Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, and Info: the journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunication, information and media.
Mueller helped to found ICANN's Noncommercial Users Constituency and has been the elected Chair of the constituency since 2006. In January 2008 Mueller became XS4All Professor at the Technology University of Delft.
Dr. Shian-Shyong Tseng, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) [+/-]
Frans Gerbosch, Rack 66 (Belgium) [+/-]
In January 1995, Frans Gerbosch made his first steps on the Internet and got involved with one of the first Belgian ISP's, HookOn. He structured the organization and took care of the daily management.
In January 1997 he was one of the founders of the Belgian XS4ALL Internet NV, an ISP with a focus on small and medium sized enterprises, where he has been the CEO for 3.5 years. Meanwhile, in December 1998, XS4ALL became a subsidiary of the Dutch Telecom operator KPN.
Beginning 2001 he supported CBel with the launch of the housing and co-location project Rack66. In 2003 he co-founded EUSIP bvba that continued the housing & hosting project Rack66 as an independent company. EUSIP bvba is an official Registrar of RIPE, the Belgian TLD dns.be, the European TLD EURid.eu the Dutch TLD SIDN.nl. In February 2005 he joined the Belgian ISOC Chapter and became the vice-chair of the board. As a result of this engagement and experience he was asked as a member of the jury of the Belgian selection of the World Summit Award (WSA) of 2005 and also in 2007. In May 2007, he co-founded Oxopia NV an on-line database project built around the software as a service concept. And later he was one of the initiative takers of Belgian ICT Arbitration & Mediation (BICTAM) Organization that wants to offer arbitration and mediation services in ICT.
As a result of his different positions, he has a wide network of contacts within the European ISP market, but also within the Belgian Government. He combines a solid technical IP knowledge with very good interpersonal skills.
Hans Peter Dittler, BRAINTEC Netzwerk-Consulting (Germany) [+/-]
Hans Peter Dittler, originally from and currently living in Germany, is the CEO of BRAINTEC Netzwerk-Consulting, a company focused on Internet and network related consultancy.
Dittler began his business career in the late 1970s at the University of Karlsruhe as a research fellow on communication protocols. In 1980, he was one of the founders of a startup company that focused on developing communication and networking equipment.
In 1987, he was active in the standardization of networking protocols in the IEEE 902.3 LAN/MAN committee and became a voting member in 1989. After 1993 he changed his focus to protocols such as PPP, IPv6 and other Internet-protocols and has since participated in several IETF working groups. His main focus is bringing back new technology from the IETF to companies and users in Germany.
In 1991, he was one of the founding members of DIGI which later became ISOC.DE. DIGI was founded to implement DENIC as a not-for-profit organization owned and supervised by the local community and open for all ISPs that were interested in local domain names. Hans Peter Dittler was the representative of ISOC.DE in the DENIC steering group until 1997.
Since being involved in founding the ISOC.DE, he has remained a member of the board of ISOC.DE. He is one of the German delegates from ISOC.DE to ISOC-ECC, the European Chapters Coordinating Council of ISOC. Based on his long experience with IPv6, he was invited in 2001 to join the German IPv6-taskforce to promote the use of IPv6 throughout Germany and Europe.
Dittler has written books about IPv6 and VoIP and papers on Internet Security and many other aspects of Internet use. He has done several studies on security and network abuse. By conducting workshops, seminars and tutorials, he helps to educate people in the many aspects of network use.
Jaechul Sir, KRNIC (Korea) [+/-]
Jaechul Sir is currently the executive director of NIDA, a nonprofit statutory organization, and is in charge of Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC). At KRNIC he is repsonsible for the policy development and technical management of the .kr ccTLD and IP address. In addition, Sir works on the development of domain name related technologies such as DNSSEC and IPSEC. He also has an active role in drafting the Internet Resource Administration Act for the .kr ccTLD.
In addition, Sir has actively participated in Joint Engineering Team (JET), which was established to develop and implement IDN technology. Sir, along with other JET members, recently sent a joint letter to Microsoft urging them to implement IDN standards in Microsoft products to ensure a more convenient use of the Internet for the Internet users in Asia. Moreover, Sir has been contributing to the creation of .ASIA sTLD as a board member of the DotAsia organization.
John Zoltner, Consultant (Chile) [+/-]
John Zoltner is a Santiago, Chile, based consultant working with public, nongovernmental and private entities to design strategies, projects and methodologies that take advantage of the power of information and communication technologies to empower individuals, organizations and communities. Zoltner is currently working as an adviser for Peñalolén, a politically important municipality of Santiago, Chile, embarking on an ambitious project to transform the relationship between government and citizens by combining the democratizing power of ICTs with a thorough re-engineering of government services. Zoltner also raises funds for and manages innovative development projects involving ICTs on the national and regional levels in the Americas.
Prior to his Santiago-based work, John served as the founding chair of the steering committee for the Telecenters of the Americas Partnership (TAP), the largest network of telecenters in the world, and as director of strategy and development for the Community Technology Centers' Network, a national network of more than 1,000 telecenters across the United States (CTCNet). At CTCNet, Zoltner developed organizational strategy and secured resources to ensure that the organization would reach its full potential to serve its members. John joined CTCNet after serving as the director of strategic alliances and communications for Technology Works for Good (TWFG -- now NPower of the Greater DC Region), a technology service provider for nonprofit organizations. Prior to his work at TWFG, John held a variety of senior nonprofit management positions. Among them was community technology manager for the Community Preservation and Development Corporation's model "Electronic Village" project at the Edgewood Terrace affordable housing complex.
John holds both a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and a Bachelor of Arts in English literature with a minor in philosophy from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he taught Innovative Information and Communications Technology Strategies as an adjunct faculty member for the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership.
Khaled Koubaa, ICT Independent Consultant (Tunisia) [+/-]
Khaled Koubaa is an ICT independent consultant working for the nonprofit sector in Tunisia and Arab and African region: Arab Institute for Human Rights, Tunisian Nutrition Specialist Organization, ENDA Inter Arab, Tunisian Accountants Society and FAMEX (export facilitation program). He provides training and one-on-one coaching for organizations and corporate executives on how to choose and implement new information systems and strategies. He was involved with many ICT pioneer projects in Tunisia.
Koubaa entered the Internet landscape in 1997. He has been involved with Internet Society since 2005, and he participates actively within the WSIS. He founded the Internet Society chapter in Tunisia and serves as president. He is assisting in the creation of the Arab Internet Societies. He is regularly at the ICANN meeting as the Tunisian At-Large Structure and many other events related to the Internet.
Koubaa earned his bachelor's degree in management from High School of Commerce, Tunisia. He obtained a master's degree in electronic commerce from the High School of Electronic Commerce, and he completed an Internet Governance Capacity Building Program with Diplo Foundation.
Oscar Robles Garay, NIC Mexico .MX (Mexico) [+/-]
Oscar Robles Garay is general director for NIC México, the organization that manages the administration of the .MX country code top-level domain (ccTLD) and IP space allocation for Mexican Internet service providers. He is one of the founders of the Latin American and Caribbean Country Code Top-Level Domains and is president of the board. In addition, since 2003, Robles Garay has been on the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry board of directors. In 2005, he was appointed to the PIR Advisory Council.
He has participated in diverse forums in Mexico and Latin America on topics such as Internet governance, domain names and intellectual property, and Internet growth in Mexico and Latin America.
Robles Garay holds a degree in computer systems engineering and has a master's degree in information technologies management from the Monterrey Institute of Technology. He co-teaches a course on the e-commerce legal framework at the Virtual University of the Monterrey Technology.
Sebastian Ricciardi, Jáuregui & Associates (Argentina) [+/-]
Sebastian Ricciardi holds a bachelor's degree in law from the Buenos Aires University and a master's degree in business administration from the Universidad del CEMA. He has almost 10 years working in the consumer industry, covering different sales and marketing positions.
In 1999, he founded a technology company, working in wireless applications and marketing of new services. He is currently affiliated with Jauregui & Associates, a specialized law firm based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ricciardi is a member of the Internet Society Argentinean chapter. Recently, he was selected to participate in the WSIS Ambassador program, working with ISOC chapter members from around the world in the prepcom and the Tunis phase of WSIS.
Ricciardi has been working with ICANN´s At-Large Advisory Committee since 2002, when he was appointed by the ICANN board. His responsibilities over the past years have included outreach activities among the Latin America communities and policy work. The ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee appointed him to the WIPO2 Assistance Group and the Transfers Assistance Group.
Shahram Soboutipour, Karmania Technology Inc. (Iran) [+/-]
Dr. Shian-Shyong Tseng, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
Advisory Council Charter (PDF doc, 76 KB).
