+1 for both with hope for online privacy and anti-censorship support. On 8 September 2011 12:52, DeeDee Halleck <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I endorse these also. > DeeDee Halleck > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Konstantinos Komaitis < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> (apologies for resending the message – forgot to put the nominees’ names >> on the subject line)**** >> >> ** ** >> >> 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*<http://www.chillingeffects.org/>, >> 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 <https://www.torproject.org/>, 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 <http://www.icann.org/> 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**** >> >> ** ** >> > > > > -- > http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org > > -- Internet & Privacy Lawyer Keep the internet safe http://FlyAKite.org/