Here is my self introduction, combined with some of the concerns which I have been working on over the years. <> I am in Cambodia since 1990, established in 1994 the first connection to the Internet from Cambodia (UUCP/store-and-forward, and were for three years the only providers), registered the country domain .kh in 1996 and administered it free of charge until 1998, when the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications took it over and started to charge US$200 for the first two years... I work as the only foreigner in a Cambodian NGO – the Open Forum of Cambodia – which had been created to facilitate and foster communication with consultations, publications, and electronic communication in a post war-torn society which had also been internationally isolated for almost three decades. The technological, economic, and administrative obstacles against our goals were, and in some ways are still, enormous. Only after having overcome the initial connectivity problems, we were faced with the problem of the Cambodian language – and script – in communication. UNICODE had already coded the Khmer script – but without any Cambodian participation, and it was only after about three more years of difficult and expensive negotiations that we came to a “compromise” – basically the Cambodian side had to accept that whatever had been published by UNICODE could not be changed, even if it was considered to be inappropriate by Khmer linguists and programmers. At present the Open Forum of Cambodia is involved in creating a wide range of UNICODE based Open Source software localized in the Khmer language. Non of our developments would have been possible without having others on the Internet assisting with advice. We do participate also regularly - where possible - with a number of the Asia-Pacific networks lumped together as the "AP*" ("AP STAR") groups. Further involvement in the WSIS process pleased us with the assurance that the Information Society would be one “where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life.” But the international cooperation, the commitment of competently trained human resources, and of financial means to move towards these goals seems to be almost as far in the distance as before. My participation in ICANN – in the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency since 1999, and then in the Non Commercial Users Constituency – was probably never focused narrowly on the core concerns of ICANN only, though the interpretation of what the ICANN mandate comprises was always contested and changing. But living and continuing to work for a small ISP with civil society commitments beyond the technicalities allowed me to share some of our concerns regularly with others – finding out that some non-commercials in other small countries are facing similar problems of domain name administration, resource allocation, and governance problems. If elected, I will continue to try to reflect the concerns of those at the lower end of the Non Commercial User Community in the context of the Internet getting more and more high-speed, high-bandwidth – and (in our administrative context) high price. Norbert Klein Open Forum of Cambodia Advisor to the Director Phnom Penh/Cambodia