EPIC also supports both nominations.

Marc.

On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Alex Gakuru wrote:

> I support both of these nominations. Their stellar perfomance at
> Council and hosts of Working Groups speaks for itself. Are great most
> dedicated public interest volunteers.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 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, 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, 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 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,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Senior Lecturer,
>> 
>> Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses
>> 
>> Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law
>> 
>> University of Strathclyde,
>> 
>> The Law School,
>> 
>> Graham Hills building,
>> 
>> 50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA
>> 
>> UK
>> 
>> tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306
>> 
>> http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765
>> 
>> Selected publications:
>> http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038
>> 
>> Website: www.komaitis.org
>> 
>>