dear all I second this nomination - and, when i get a moment, will write up some thoughts on the nomcom process - i've been the appointee for NCUC to the nomcom this past two years - a really interesting and worthwhile experience.. karen At 14:53 24/08/2008, Robert Guerra wrote: >I would like to nominate Norbert Klein, an >Associate of the Cambodian NGO Open Institute >from Phnom Penh/Cambodia to represent NCUC on the nomcom. > >I checked with him earlier today, and he's >interested and willing to serve. Below is a Bio >so that those of you not familiar with him, can know more him. > >Sincerely yours, > >Robert Guerra >CPSR, Director >Toronto, Canada > >---- > >Norbert Klein - Bio >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>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>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 Kualaa Lumpur/Malaysia and in 2000 Yokohama/Japan > >Regional Asia – participating in several Asia Pacific Networkking Group >events – APNG - (2002 and 2005 also preseenting) – and Asia Pacific Regional >Internet Confereence on Operational Technologies >- APRICOT – in some yeaars 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 annd 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, >Tunessia, 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<//<http://www.digital-review.org>www.digital-review.org) > > >INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES: > >German - native >English – fluent speaking, reading,, and writing >French - working competence in speaking, reading, and writing >Japanese – working compeetence in speaking, reading, and writing >Spanish – woorking competence in speaking, reading, and writing