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Subject: [ianatransition] ICANN Accountability & Governance
Public
Experts Group Members Announced
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:08:05 +0000
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Please see original announcement
at
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-19-en
ICANN Accountability & Governance Public Experts Group Members
Announced
As described in the 14 August 2014 posting of
the Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps
<
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-08-14-en
>, four
respected individuals with backgrounds in academia, governmental
relations, global insight, and the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC),
will form the Accountability & Governance Public Experts Group.
Selected by ICANN's President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé, members of
the
Public Experts Group will be responsible for the *selection of up to
seven Advisors to sit on the Coordination Group* to assure that best
practices are brought from the larger global community. Once selected by
the Public Experts Group, these Advisors will contribute research and
advice, as well as bring perspectives on global best practices to enrich
the discussion, all while engaging with a broader network of
accountability experts from around the world.
The members of the Public Experts Group are:
* *Brian Cute*
CEO of The Public Interest Registry and Chair of ICANN's
first and
second Accountability and Transparency Review Teams
<
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/accountability-2012-02-25-en
>
(ATRT).^1
<
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-19-en#foot1>
* *Jeanette Hofmann*
Director, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and
Society,
in Berlin, Germany. She also conducts research at the Social
Science
Research Center Berlin. She represented the academic community
as
one of four co-chairs of the NETmundial Global
Multistakeholder
Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance in São
Paulo, Brazil,
in April 2014.
* *Ambassador Janis Karklins*
Latvian Ambassador. Chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory
Group
(MAG); former Chairman of the Governmental Advisory
Committee, GAC Liaison to the ICANN Board and co-selector of
the ATRT1.
* *Lawrence E. Strickling*
NTIA Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Communication
and
Information of the U.S. Department of Commerce; and member of
both
ATRT1 and ATRT2.
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^1 <
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-19-en#note1>
Mandated by the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC), the ATRT is a team
of
community representatives responsible for reviewing ICANN's
accountability, transparency and pursuit of the interests of global
Internet users on a recurring basis.