Ditto. Kim Please excuse my typos! This is sent from my iPhone. On 2011-09-07, at 9:41, Alex Gakuru <[log in to unmask]> 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 >> >>