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

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Norbert Klein - Bio
Current  as of Aug 2008
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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 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<// 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