[gnso-whois-wg] Statement of Interest
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 1. Current occupation, employer and position I am employed as an adjunct professor at Luelå University of Technology. I also have a contract doing QoS R&D for a Swedish start- up and am occasionally employed as a consultant to the secretariat of the IGF. 2. Type of work performed in 1 above At the university I am responsible for the creation of a curriculum for a new program on Internet Governance and for supervision of MA and Ph.D. students. I am also active in several research efforts dealing with ubiquitous communications in remote communications challenged areas. As a technical consultant I do analysis on QoS in converging telecommunications systems, and as a consultant to the secretariat of the the IGF I provide a variety of services including creation of synthesis reports. 3. Financial ownership or management leadership of registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties in Whois I have no financial ownership or management leadership in any firm. I am currently involved with several non paying activities concerning indigenous peoples and other marginalized populations who desire access to TLDs. Some of these activities may someday result in registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties in whois. 4. Nature of your interest in Whois I am a nomcom appointee to the council, and believe that part of my responsibility as a volunteer to the council is to participate in as much of the work as possible. I am also interested and active in civil society efforts to limit the abuse of private information and do maintain membership, or contributor status, in several NGOs that have protecting privacy as part of their chartered goals. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGKTABzUL36xoPd70RAppLAKCTxdQYHs4XM5f+pencsU4zkAC1HwCgvYS/ ceFDRMAy6ArStH3hPc79Vyw= =pECP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |