On Monday, 25 August 2008 23:17:37 Milton L Mueller wrote: > My understanding is that three people have been publicly nominated for > the Nominating Committee positions: > > In order of receipt they are: > 1. Kim Heitman, EFF Australia > 2. Cheryl Preston, CP80 Foundation > 3. Norbert Klein, Open Institute of Cambodia [snip] > The Executive Committee makes the selection, we do not have a membership > vote. However, over the next three days I would ask all nominees to > provide a bio about themselves to the public list, and I would encourage > all members who support specific nominees to express it on the list > along with their reasons. Thanks, Milton. Here is my bio: Norbert Klein Current as of Aug 2008 INTERNET RELATED INVOLVEMENT CAMBODIA 1994 established first connection from Cambodia to the Internet ("Khmer Internet - Cambodia Case Study" - ITU January 2002 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/cambodia/index.html) 1996 established Internet Country Code address .kh for Cambodia and administered it until transferring responsibility to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications 1998. 1997 to 2002 working to establish UNICODE definition for the Khmer language (UNICODE Khmer mailing list, Advisor to the Committee Organizing the Standard Khmer Script for Computers, UNICODE consortium meetings, "in Witness of the Gratitude of the Royal Government and the Citizens of Cambodia awarded the Honor as a Knight of the Order of Monisaraphon") Also: 1997 to the present: Editor of a daily review of the Khmer press in English - http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com REGIONAL Asia 1996 ISOC Workshop on Networking Technology for Countries in the Early Stages of Internetworking, Montreal/Canada – further participating in ISOC in 1997 in Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia and in 2000 Yokohama/Japan Regional Asia – participating in several Asia Pacific Networking Group events – APNG - (2002 and 2005 also presenting) – and Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies - APRICOT – in some years as presenter GLOBAL In 1999 joining the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency, later the Non-Commerical Users Constituency, for two terms on the Executive Committee for the Asia region, then delegated into the ICANN Generic Names Support Organization's Council. Participated in the following ICANN meetings as member of the non-commercial constituency: 1999/08 Santiago de Chile 2000/07 Yokohama 2000/11 Marina del Rey 2001/03 Melbourne 2001/09 Montevideo 2001/11/ Marina del Rey 2002/03 Accra 2002/10 Shanghai 2003/06 Montreal 2004/07 Kuala Lumpur 2004/12 Cape Town 2005/04 Mar del Plata 2005/07 Luxembourg 2005/12 Vancouver 2006/03 Wellington 2006/06 Marrakech 2006/12 São Paulo 2007/03 Lisbon 2007/06 Puerto Rico 2007/10-11 Los Angeles 2008/02 New Delhi Beyond ICANN 2003 January - Asia-Pacific Regional Conference towards WSIS 2003 2003 – negotiated and achieved Cambodian NGO membership in the Association for Progressive Communication (Cartagena/Colombia), serving one term as second representative on the APC Council 2003 December First WSIS and ICT4D Platform (presenter) in Geneva 2004 March UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance, New York, contributing to the book "Internet Governance - Perspectives from Cambodia" 2004 May UN ICT Task Force Regional Meeting on Internet Governance - Shanghai 2004 June First Preparatory Committee for the 2nd UN World Summit for the Information Society - in Tunisia – 2005 in Geneva 2005 December Second WSIS in Tunis 2003 invited and continuing as Member of the Advisory Board of the "Institut francophone des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la formation," of the Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie; board meets normally twice per year – in Mauritius, Cameroon, Tunesia, Senegal, and several times in France. Author of the Cambodia chapters of the "Digital Review of Asia Pacific," 2003/2004 and 2005/2006, published by the Asia Pacific Development Information Program of UNDP, and the Pan Asia Networking of the International Development Research Program of Canada (http<//www.digital-review.org) INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES: German - native English – fluent speaking, reading, and writing French - working competence in speaking, reading, and writing Japanese – working competence in speaking, reading, and writing Spanish – working competence in speaking, reading, and writing