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Mr. NIMAAN Abdillahi
Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon / Institut des Sciences et des Nouvelles
Technologies de Djibouti |
Né le 20 Juin 1968, de nationalité djiboutienne, NIMAAN Abdillahi a effectué une Maîtrise
d'Electronique et d'Automatique en France à l'Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis et puis
un Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies en Robotique (Reconnaissance automatique des formes) à
l'INSA de Lyon en 1994. Directeur de l'Institut des Sciences et des Nouvelles Technologies
de Djibouti des 2002, il lance en collaboration avec le Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon,
un programme de traitement automatique des langues Africaines, dans le but de rendre plus
accessible le patrimoine culturel audio de ce continent. Mr. NIMAAN achève actuellement un
doctorat dans ce domaine.
Il a participé à plusieurs conférences internationales (Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole au
Maroc en 2004 ; Journées d'Analyse des Données Textuelles à Besançon en 2006) et a publié
plusieurs articles scientifiques (Boîtes à outils pour des langues peu informatisées : le
cas de la langue somalienne in JADT 2006 ; Towards Automatic transcription of Somali
language in LREC 2006 ; Reconnaissance automatique de la Parole en langue Somalienne in
JEP 2006).
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Mr. Andrzej Bartosiewicz
Head of DNS Division, NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network) |
Total 10+ years of professional experience in ICT sector. At present working as Head of DNS Division
(including national Registry for .PL, +48 ENUM Registry for Poland, Government Validation Point for .EU
and .EU Registrar) at NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network). Working as "Rapporteur" of ITU-T
Study Group 17 (Security, languages and telecommunication software) in the field of Internationalized
Domain Names. Author of several contributions to ITU. Member State (Poland) Representative to ITU-T
Study Group 17. Member of the Executive Committee of CENTR (Council of European National Top-Level
Domain Registries). For more, see www.bartosiewicz.pl
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Mr. Dawit Bekele
Assistant Professor, Addis Ababa University |
Dawit Bekele has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Paul Sabatier in France.
He has served as head of the department of Computer Science of Addis Ababa University,
Ethiopia, from 2002 to February 2006. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the same
University. In addition to his teaching and administration activities, he has been highly
involved in research and development. His area of interest include localization, especially
around Amharic, the Ethiopian national language. Dawit Bekele is also an advocate of Free
and Open Source Software; he is the coordinator of EFOSSNET, an association that promotes
Free and Open Source Software in Ethiopia.
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Mr. Koan Cho
CEO, Digital Names, Korea |
Mr. Koan Cho is the CEO and Founder of Digital Names, a leading Korean language Internet
Names company in Korea – promoting Keywords and Domains. He also is CEO of DMI Corp.
a company specializing in Computer Network Systems and Service. He is a graduate of New York
University’s Leonard Stern School. From high school days he has continued to split his
time between New York and Seoul, South Korea. He owns several issued patents in computing
with a Korean-language focus ranging from – various easy-to-use Korean Keyboard input
systems and Internet-based foreign exchange transaction methods – and some patents
without a computing focus like one for a Variable Ratio Steering System. In particular, he
is the inventor and holder of an issued Korean patent on Korean language Keywords, which has
been licensed, to his company as well as his competitors in Korea. As such he is the
“father” of non-English multilingual Internet Keywords. Some of his other
patents have been licensed to leading US and Korean hi-technology giants like AOL and
Seoul Mobile Telecom. Previously in his life, he ran for a number of years his family’s
substantial gas boiler business in Korea.
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Ms. Tina Dam
Director, IDN Programs & Chief gTLD Registry Liaison
ICANN |
Tina Dam is ICANN’s Director for IDN Programs. In this capacity Tina is responsible for all
IDN related program at ICANN, including the project for testing of internationalized top level
labels, the continued development of the IDN Guidelines, and maintenance of the IANA repository
for IDN TLD practices. Tina also serves on several IDN related working groups in the community
and is tasked with furthering the education of ICANN’s domain name internationalization efforts
in the Internet community.
Tina is also ICANN's gTLD Registry Liaison. The gTLD Registry Department is responsible for issues
concerning compliance with the requirements of agreements between ICANN and registry sponsors and
operators. This department is also in charge of evaluating requests for new services from registry
sponsors and operators, assisting in the launch phases of newly introduced registry sponsors and
operators, as well as building and maintaining relationships with those entities.
Tina has executive-- level experience at the ICANN-accredited registrar
Ascio Technologies (formerly known as SpeedNames). At Ascio,
Tina's principal responsibility was handling registry relations. Tina also oversaw Ascio's launches of
the .biz, .info, and .name top-level domains, and managed the development of all internal and external
products and product marketing materials.
Prior to Ascio, Tina was the Systems Architecture Engineer at Navision Software a/s,
establishing the architecture design of the company's next generation of products. Navision was acquired by
MicroSoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) in 2002.
Tina holds a Master of Science in Mathematics and Physics from the Aalborg University
in Denmark and a BBA in Marketing Management and International Trade from Copenhagen Business School.
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Mr. Tarcisio G. Della Senta
President UNDL Foundation |
Professor T. Della Senta has been with the United Nations University in Tokyo from 1988 to 2000,
at first as Director of Planning and Development, and then as a Vice-Rector. He is the founding
Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, in Tokyo (1995 - 2000),
where the UNL was born, and the founding president of the UNDL Foundation.
His entire professional life has been associated with the world of knowledge. With a Doctor degree from Harvard
University, and a Master’s from the Institute Catholique de Paris he crosses various intellectual disciplines
and cultural environments. He worked as university professor and served in high-level functions, both within
the Ministry of Education and at the National Council of Science and Technology in his home country, Brazil.
Prof. Della Senta is the author of number scholarly and technical papers, as well as institutional, regional
and national development plans in Brazil, and at United Nations University. He is also co-editor of four books:
UNL, a Gift for a Millennium, UNU/IAS, 1999; Access to Knowledge, the Emergence of the
Virtual University, Oxford University Press, 2000. No Matter, Never Mind: Proceedings of Toward a Science
of Consciousness Fundamental Approaches Paperback /389 Pages/John Benjamins Pub Co/March 2002; UNL The
Universal Networking Language, UNDL Foundation, Geneva April 2006.
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Mr. Marcel Diki-Kidiri
LLACAN-CNRS |
As a linguist and Senior Researcher at the Centre national de la Recherche linguistique (CNRS) in France ,
he leads a program of the laboratory “Language, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique noire” on the development
and standardization of African languages. He is specialized on the study of the Sango language, one of
the two official languages of the Central African Republic where he was born on November 9th 1944.
With special application to Sango and African languages, he studied issues of general interest for
language development and standardization such as writing systems, orthography devising, cultural
terminology for emerging languages, computer processing of natural languages and African language
policies for multilingual education and nation-building.
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Ms. Sabine Dolderer
Director, DENIC |
Sabine Dolderer is a Director and member of the Executive Board at DENIC eG, where she is responsible for
the business and technical services for the Top Level Domain (TLD) .de registry in Frankfurt, Germany.
Ms. Dolderer has been with DENIC since its inception – beginning in 1994 when it was managed by the
University of Karlsruhe computing center, and through its founding as a cooperative in 1997. She was
General Manager of DENIC from 1997-2001, and has served in the position of Director since then.
Ms. Dolderer worked from 1990-1997 as a scientific assistant at the University of Karlsruhe computer
center, where she was responsible for central communication services such as e-mail, news, and Internet
access. In 1994, she took on the additional responsibility of the “DENIC” project, for which the
University of Karlsruhe performed the technical engineering responsibilities on behalf of the top German
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) until 1999.
In her career, Ms. Dolderer has made significant contributions to the design and further development of
the domain administration system for the TLD .de. Her expertise on domain administration is recognized
not only in Germany but also abroad. She is a member of various international organizations, having served
on the board of many of them during her career. Ms. Dolderer has been Acting Treasurer of CENTR
(Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries) for the period 2000-2004.
Ms. Dolderer received her education at the University of Karlsruhe, where she obtained her degree in
informatics/computer science. She was born in Stuttgart in 1962. She is married and has two sons.
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Mr. Michael Everson
Evertype |
Michael Everson, based in Westport, Co. Mayo, is an expert in the writing systems of the world. He
is active in supporting minority-language communities, especially in the fields of character
standardization and internationalization. He is one of the co-authors of the Unicode Standard,
and is a Contributing Editor and Irish National Representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2, the
committee responsible for the development and maintenance of the Universal Character Set. He
is a linguist, typesetter, and font designer who has contributed to the encoding in of many
scripts and characters. In 2005 and 2006 his work to encode the Balinese and N’Ko scripts was
supported by UNESCO’s Initiative B@bel programme. Michael was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania
in 1963, and moved to Tucson, Arizona at the age of 12. He studied German, Spanish, and French
for his B.A. at the University of Arizona (1985), and the History of Religions and Indo-European
Linguistics for his M.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles (1988). He moved to Ireland
in 1989, and was a Fulbright Scholar in the Faculty of Celtic Studies, University College Dublin (1991).
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Mr. Khaled Fattal
MINC |
Mr Fattal is chairman and CEO of MINC, and has served as chairman since November 2002 and as
CEO since early 2003. He has led MINC’s reform and restructuring since December 2002. He is
an Arab American born in Syria and raised in Beirut, Lebanon and has been residing in the
west for the last 30 years. Mr Fattal brings vast experience from across many business
sectors and industries at international levels ranging from the financial sector, where he
worked with major banking institutions in the US to top fortune 500 multinationals
specializing in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), legal, and IT industries. He is an
expert in International Market development with specialized expertise across the Middle
East, Africa, Europe, North America and the Far East. He is also CEO of International
Business Enterprises Limited and a founding member of the Arabic Internet Names Consortium
(AINC) and is its acting Executive Director. He also serves on ICANN President’s Advisory
Committee for IDNs and has served as President of an Arbitration centre in India for a
number of years. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, with a BS in
Business Administration, International Finance and Marketing in 1984, and an MBA in
International Business, from California State University at Los Angles in 1987. Mr Fattal
was Instrumental in causing many internal policy changes by some large Multinationals
headquartered in the US regarding their internal policies and procedures on racism and
prejudice after the September 11th attacks.
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Dr. Christian GALINSKI
Dir. Dr. Infoterm |
After pursuing Japanese and Chinese studies as well as communication studies (at that time
comprising information and documentation studies as well as applied linguistics) at the
University of Bonn (1967-1971), he spent two years in Japan for further studies and research
on the history of Japanese education (1971-1973). Being a registered court translator for
Japanese since 1976 he founded and ran a private language and consultancy service (1977-1980).
In 1979 he joined the International Information Centre for Terminology (Infoterm) as a scientific
staff member and in 1986 succeeded Prof. Felber as Director of Infoterm and also as Secretary of
the Technical Committee ISO/TC 37 “Terminology and other language resources” of the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO). Since 1986 he has been a driving force behind the
foundation of several institutions, networks and organizations in the field of terminology, such
as the “International Network for Terminology” (TermNet), “Association for Terminology and
Knowledge Transfer” (GTW), “International Institute for Terminology Research” (IITF), “East Asia
Forum on Terminology” (EAFTerm) etc. at international, regional and national levels.
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Mr. Iván Guzmán de Rojas
(IGRAL) |
Born on March 30,1934 in La Paz (Bolivia), Iván Guzmán de Rojas graduated from La Paz University (UMSA)
as Industrial Engineer in 1959. Between 1959 and 1961 he was granted the Research Scholarship of the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for postgraduate work at the Strahlungsphysik Institute, Bonn (Germany).
From 1962-66, he was project engineer of Consultant Engineers Lahmayer EAG and at the Technological
Center of Siemens AG in Erlangen, responsible for design of automatic control and protection systems.
From 1967-70 he founded the Instituto de Ciencias Básicas, organized as a BID–UMSA project; professor
of applied mathematics at the Institute and professor of Energy Systems at the Industrial Engineering
Faculty; technical advisor of the University Planning Committee. From 1970-72 he organized the
Centro Nacional de Cómputo, a data processing service for the Bolivian government. From 1972-80
he worked as independent Informatics Consultant for international organizations.
During 1980-88 he became privately engaged in Language Engineering R&D; he designed and developed the
multilingual translator ATAMIRI; the first prototype was presented in March 1985, in Washington at the
Organization of American States headquarters. He implemented ATAMIRI at the Translation Center of the
Panama Canal Commission for massive document translation from English into Spanish. He also conducted
language implementations at Wang’s translation centers in France, Germany and Holland.
From 1991 to 2001 he was elected by the Bolivian National Congress as Vocal of the Corte Nacional
Electoral. He was President of the Informatics Commission of the CNE and conducted the Electoral
System Informatics Project.
From 2001-02 under the auspices of Unión Latina, Paris, and Neotec, La Paz, he implemented Romanian in
ATAMIRI; the prototype was presented operating on-line in Internet before the Unión Latina and before
the General Delegation of the French language; he also launched in Internet the multilingual messenger
QOPUCHAWI and the virtual forum AYNISIWI using the translator engine ATAMIRI. He is now working on the
implemention of Catalán for Atlas de la Diversidad, Barcelona, and continues as independent consultant.
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Mr. Hiro Hotta
Director, Japan Registry Services |
He was Chairman of Asia & Pacific Internet Association during 2000-2001. From 1999, he was a member
of Names Council of ICANN Domain Name Supporting Organization for 2 years as one of the representatives
from ISP Constituency. When JPRS was established as a .JP ccTLD registry in 2001, he joined JPRS as a
Director and has been responsible for business planning and development including IDN deployment.
He has been involved in IDN development and deployment for more than five yeas since then. He was a
primary author of ITU Briefing Paper in Joint ITU / WIPO Symposium on Multilingual Domain Names held
in December 2001. He was a member of Japanese Domain Names Association, ICANN IDN registry implementation
committee, ICANN President's Advisory Committee for IDNs, and other IDN related organizations.
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Ms. Fay Howard with Marcel Schneider
General Manager
CENTR
Council of National Top-level domain Registries
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Born in 1957. Fay is a legal liabilities insurance underwriter by professional training. She has worked
in the internet community since 1995.She was the first General Manager of CENTR from 1999 to 2001 and
has recently returned.
In the intervening period she worked at Nominet, the.uk registry on a 12 month feasibility study into
improving standards in the domain name registration industry. She was subsequently elected to the board
where she continues to serve as a non-executive director.
As a consultant Fay has worked with other registries on best practice and worked on a number of bids
for new top-level domain registries. She was engaged by EURid to write the successful .eu bid and
returned as Project Manager liaising with ICANN and the European Commission on contractual issues
and drafting rules procedures for the new .eu registry.
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Marcel Schneider
Mgr. Special Operations and International Relations
SWITCH
The Swiss Education and Research Network
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Born in 1949, dipl. El. Ing. FH/STV/EUR-ING. Worked for the
Swiss Broadcasting Corporation in Bern and Willi Studer AG,
Regensdorf, as development engineer and project leader for
professional digital audio equipment and assistant to the CTO before
joining SWITCH, The Swiss Education and Research Network, Zurich, in
1991. Held several assignments at SWITCH – from management of
various early e-mail services to the operation of an NNTP Network –
until late 1995, when tasked with starting Internet domain name
registration services at SWITCH. Since then in the management of
Internet domain name registration services, the latest appointments
being manager for special projects (ENUM, new Top Level Domains
etc.) and International Relations.
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Mr. Patrick Kane
Director of Business Operations and Policy
VeriSign Naming Services |
Mr. Kane is the Director of Business Operations and Policy within VeriSign's Naming Services business
unit which includes responsibility for the IDN programs within the com, net, tv and cc registries.
Mr. Kane has beem responsible for the IDN program at VeriSign since the com and net launch in November
of 2000. Previous to VeriSign, Mr. Kane was a Senior Principal with American Management Systems (AMS)
for three years serving as an Engagement Manager deploying tax fraud identification systems for state
and local governments.
Prior to AMS, Mr. Kane spent fifteen years with Electronic Data Systems (EDS) as an Account Manager,
Systems Engineering Manager and Systems Engineer managing outsourced IT engagements in the Oil and
Chemical industries, Healthcare Services and Federal, State and Local Governments.
Mr. Kane holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin
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Dr. Cary Karp
President and CEO, MuseDoma |
Cary Karp is the President and CEO of the Museum Domain Management Association, the
sponsoring organization for the dotMuseum top-level domain. He is the Director of Internet
Strategy and Technology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History and serves in the same
capacity for the International Council of Museums. He holds a PhD in musicology from Uppsala
University where he is Associate Professor of Organology.
Dr. Karp is involved in action toward establishing further TLDs equivalent to dotMuseum for
other segments of the heritage management sector, furthering collaborative action within
that community onto the Internet. When IDNA was released, dotMuseum was among the first
generic TLDs to provide the corresponding service. Karp is active in developing the
potential of IDN for designating cultural activity that spans geopolitical boundaries,
with particular regard to the intangible heritage of indigenous populations.
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Mr. Désiré KARYABWITE
IP Coordinator, E-Strategy Unit,
ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) |
Mr. Désiré KARYABWITE is the IP (Internet Protocol) Coordinator of the E-Strategy Unit at the ITU
Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT). Since 1989, he has played a leading role in the field of
technology transfer and in the Introduction of Internet/Intranet in High Technologies Enterprises in
Switzerland and in several African countries. In 1997, he started to work with the ITU as Expert in
Telecommunication Management Information Systems and IP-based Networks.
Now, he is managing IP activities and assisting developing countries in setting up their IP-based
networks and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology, policies and strategies. He has published
several handbooks and documents on strategies relating to communication systems and access technologies,
has participated in international panels and organized IP Telephony, e-services - applications and related
events worldwide.
Before joining ITU, he was a member and President of IDM (Ingénieurs du Monde, Sector member of ITU in
Switzerland), Internet Coordinator at Synergies Africa in Geneva, Switzerland. He also worked with
Northrop Grumman, Maryland, USA, as Coordinator of “Air Traffic Management System and Radio Access
project” for Rwanda, and after that as Chief Executive Officer a.i. for RITA (Rwanda Information
Technology Authority) and Permanent Representative of Rwanda in ITU.
He was born in Rwanda in December 1963. He graduated from EPFL- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne (Switzerland Federal Institute of Technology) as Electrical and Communication Engineer and he
is also qualified in “Management of High Technologies” from EPFL.
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Mr. Yoav Keren
CEO, Domain The Net Technologies Ltd. |
Yoav Keren, is the CEO and Co-founder of Domain The Net Technologies Ltd., the leading domain name
registrar in Israel (ICANN accredited), that provides services to most of the Israeli ISPs and
Israel's leading companies. Domain The Net also provides other Internet services such as Brand
Security services and anti-Pharming solutions, and has a subsidiary that provides web development
and Search Engine Optimization services. Yoav is a former Senior Advisor to Minister Haim Ramon,
of the Israeli government. He was the Minister’s parliamentary, economics and media advisor for
more than 4 years. Among other public offices, Yoav was the President of the Tel-Aviv University
Student Council. Yoav was the Head of the Technology branch of the Israeli military's Information
Security Department. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)
& the Recanati School of Business Administration (Tel-Aviv University), and a B.A. in Economics and
Physics from the Tel-Aviv University, with additional studies in Computer Science.
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Mr. Kyung Il Kim
Senior Manager, Strategic Alliance, Netpia.com |
Kyung-il Kim is in charge of strategic alliance team as well as standardization activities for
Netpia.com, one of the pioneers and leading service providers of multilingual Internet keyword.
Before he joined Netpia.com in 2005, he received MBA degree from McCombs School of Business of the
University of Texas at Austin, where he concentrated in IT marketing.
He started his career in 1994 with Locus Corp., a Mobile Internet and enterprise communication
solution provider in Korea, where he was responsible for the business development and strategic
planning. In addition, he played various roles from technical support to product management.
He received B.S. in electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (1993).
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Mr. John C. KLENSIN
Internet Society (ISOC) |
John C. KLENSIN is an independent consultant, focusing primarily on Internet standards, application
protocols, and their implementations and deployment. Formerly, he was Internet Architecture Vice
President at AT&T Labs and Distinguished Engineering Fellow at MCI. He served as a member and then
Chair of the Internet Architecture Board from 1996 to 2002 and, before that, as Area Director for
Applications of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), chair of its working group on electronic
mail transport extensions, and in several other capacities. He has had significant responsibility
for the present generation of Internet applications standards, as well as standards work in other
areas. He served as a member of ANSI's Information Systems Standards Board from 1986 to 2000, and
was its Vice Chair for two years. His involvement with the Internet began about 1970, when he
participated in the effort that created the file transfer protocol (FTP) and that made the decision
to include electronic mail capability in the network's design. Klensin was on the permanent research
staff at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for about 25 years, participating in or directing
a wide variety of projects, many of them involving the application or development of computer networking
or related technologies to applied problems including measurement of mass media use and impact, taxation
policy, automatic indexing of natural language texts, management of statistical databases, statistical
computing, and urban development planning. Dr. Klensin has also been involved with international
development work with a United Nations University project on food composition data, archives of images
in Islamic architecture, assistance to UNDP on Latin American networking in the 1980s, and as co-founder
of the Network Startup Resource Center. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT in computer applications and use in
the social and policy sciences.
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Mr. Koray Kocagöncü
CEO, Netpia Turkey |
Born and raised in Turkey, studied Electrical Engineering and has an MSc degree in Computer Science
from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Worked in Unisys Canada for six years
in various technical positions. Back to Turkey, work for the Koc Group' technology and system
integration company, KocSistem. In KocSistem, for fifteen years took on numerous management positions
first in support groups and then moved on to sales management. Following KocSistem, after a short
period with another system integration company Oyak Teknoloji, started working on the NLIA project
in Turkey. Has been a board member and CEO of Netpia Turkey since the company’s establishment in
April 2005. Board member of the NLI Consortium since November 2005.
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Ms. Viola KREBS
Secretary-General, ICVolunteers |
Viola Krebs is the Founder and Secretary-General of ICVolunteers an international
non-governmental organization that recruits, trains and coordinates volunteers for
non-profit projects in the field of communications (conferences, cybervolunteerism
and language services).
Socio-linguist by training, Viola Krebs has experience with the conception, launch and
evaluation of projects in the field of communications and media, including in a development
context (Africa and Latin America). She is also the Vice-President of Informaticiens Sans
Frontières (ISF) and was the focal point of the Civil Society Bureau "Volunteer Family" of
the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in Geneva in 2003 and Tunis 2005.
In the past, she worked in the public and private sector, including for People Living with
HIV/AIDS (PWA), the World Economic Forum and Merrill Lynch.
Viola Krebs is a Swiss national and holds a Masters in Communications and Media, a
Bachelor in Socio-Linguistics, Spanish and English of the University of Geneva. She is now
working on a Ph.D. focusing on the impact of the Internet on volunteers and volunteerism.
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Ms. Elizabeth Longworth
UNESCO |
Elizabeth Longworth was born in New Zealand and holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand (1977). Working with UNESCO since 2003, she currently is Director
Information Society Division , Secretary of the IFAP Council.
In 1979, she was called to the bar of the High Court of New Zealand as a Barrister and Solicitor.
She also holds a Master of Laws degree (LLM) awarded by Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada.
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Mr. S. Maniam
IDN Working Group INFITT |
Mr. S. Maniam has been active internationally in Tamil computing initiatives since the early 90’s.
He was originally involved with developing the first Tamil Keyboard in Singapore and subsequently was
a co-founder of INFITT – the International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil, an organization
dedicated to keep the 4000+ year old Tamil language computationally relevant as well as enable the 70M+
Tamil speakers to use the Internet. Within INFITT, after a multi-year coordination between Tamils from
several countries where the Tamil Diaspora have settled, he has championed the introduction of the Tamil
language into Microsoft Windows platform recently. In addition, as the INFITT Working Group chairman for
Tamil IDNs he has been instrumental in coordinating the selection and launching of such TLDs in the
Tamil-speaking countries. Over the years he has worked in the Tamil computing industry in Singapore,
Malaysia and India both for other companies and now as an entrepreneur running his own firm. He has
also been a very active volunteer in promoting the use of Tamil computing amongst less-privileged
school children from the Indian community in Singapore and Malaysia.
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Mr. Cláudio Menezes
UNESCO |
Cláudio Menezes has a MSc in Computer Sciences by the Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro
(COPPE/UFRJ) and B. Sc in Mechanical Engineer by the Universidad Federal de Ceará (UFC),
both in Brazil. With UNESCO since 1987, where he presently is a Senior Programme Specialist
in charge of multilingualism in the digital world, promotion of ICT and persons with disabilities,
access to scientific digital information, e-governance at local level, and implementation of
extra-budgetary projects. His long IT career includes academic activities; planning activities
in the Brazilian Government; and international cooperation activities in UNESCO. Before joining
UNESCO, he was a professor with the Department of Computer Sciences of the Universidad Federal
de Ceará, Head of the Computer Centre of the same University, officer of the Ministry of Science
and Technology (Informatics Policies) and Chief of Division of a regional development bank
(Department of Information Technology) in Brazil.
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Mr. Jean-François Morfin
President, Intlnet |
Jean-François C. Morfin was born in 1944. He firstly entered into a naval career in communications.
Thereafter, he acquired international business experience in the high-tch and commerce domains.
He joined Tymnet in 1978 to pioneer the international packet switch system. He created Intlnet,
he still chairs, to support its sharing, under various technologies, by public operators and
private networks. Until 1986, his responsibilities included sales and engineering, international
agreements, naming and numbering plans, and the Internet public interconnect. From 1984 onwards,
he grouped Tymnet's international relations, network embedded intelligent services, as well as the
related R&D under the concept of Extended Services.
For the last twenty years, through applied R&D, project management, reference information services,
governance assistance, and intergovernance actions he validated a user-centric, intelligent network
model. He is focussed on experimenting and lobbying in order to see it applied.
He is a graduate from the French Naval Academy. He has degrees in Electronic engineering and Literature,
and trained in Public and Business Administration.
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Mr. Krzysztof Olesik
NASK Poland |
Krzysztof Olesik was born in 1972 in Warsaw, Poland. In 1999 acquired a Master of Science degree at
Warsaw University Of Technology. Since 2000 has been working for NASK (Research and Academic Computer
Network) as a DNS Administrator. From 2002 he is in charge of IDN project at NASK.
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Mr. Daniel Pimienta
Networks and Development Foundation- FUNREDES |
Daniel Pimienta was born in Morocco, read Applied Mathematics in Nice and hold a Ph.D. in Computer
Sciences.
After creating a Software House specialized in APL, he joined IBM France, (La Gaude Laboratory) and
worked 12 years as Telecommunication System Architect and Planner, participating in voice/data
integration products, videotex and OSI protocol testing.
In 1988, he joined Union Latina, in Santo Domingo, as Scientific Advisor and Head of REDALC project,
focusing ICT for development. With the support of European Union and Unesco, his team designed the
first PC based multilingual interface to networks (MULBRI 1989) and built (and operated) Research
and NGO networks in various LA&C countries: Peru (1991), Dominican Republic (1992) and Haiti (1993).
En 1993, he launched the Foundation Networks & Development (FUNREDES). Managing virtual communities,
sensitizing and educating users, elaborating multi-stakeholders strategies, experimenting appropriate
methodologies for sustainable development.
Daniel Pimienta is an international speaker and writer on ICT4D and is an active civil society actor
in the World Summit of Information Society (wsis.funredes.org)
as well as an obstinate promoter of institutional and professional collaboration in LA&C (redistic.org).
A coordinating expert of the Alliance of the “Three Linguistic Spaces”, he is member, for the Caribbean,
of the expert committee for the Francophone Virtual University and of the steering committee of GCNP and
EUROLATIS. Member of Argentina Academy of Arts & Communication Science, he has been nominated for the 2003
World Technology Award for Ethics and Innovation in Technology.
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Mr. LOUIS POUZIN
NATIVE LANGUAGE CONSORTIUM - NLIC |
Louis POUZIN is one of the pioneers in computer communications. He designed and directed the development
of the Cyclades network in France, the first to use datagrams and matching end-to-end protocols, later
adopted by internet. He is now retired and contributes to several associations and working groups related
to internet development. He received the IFIP Silver Core, the ACM SIGCOMM and the IEEE Internet awards.
He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and has published 82 articles and a book on computer
networks.
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Mr. Daniel Prado
Directeur de la Terminologie et les Industries de la langue |
Daniel Prado est le Directeur du Département terminologie et industries de la langue de l’Union latine,
Organisation intergouvernementale composée de 35 États et qui a pour mission de diffuser et de faire la
promotion des langues et cultures latines. Daniel Prado est chargé d’encourager la modernisation des
langues parlées dans les pays latins par le biais d’actions de promotion des langues romanes dans la
Société de la connaissance, en soutenant l’enrichissement des vocabulaires spécialisés en langues
néolatines et en faisant la promotion des industries de la langue susceptibles de favoriser l’essor
des langues parlées dans les pays latins.
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Mr. Imad Al-SABOUNI
Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Technology, Syria
Vice Chairman, Syrian Computer Society |
Born in 1964 in Damascus, Syria, Imad Sabouni obtained his Engineering degree from the École Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (ENST-Br), France in 1987, and his PhD from the Institut
National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INP-G), France in 1992. From 1993 to 2003, he worked as researcher
and professor at the Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology (HIAST), Damascus, Syria, and
became HIAST Deputy Dean in 2001. In 2003, he moved to the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE)
as General Manager where he started an ambitious restructuring program. From 2002 to 2004, he was an
active member of the Syrian ICT Strategy Taskforce and participated in the formulation of the National
ICT Strategy for Syria, in collaboration with the UNDP and the European Commission. After his term at
STE in 2006, he moved back to Damascus University and became advisor to the Minister of Communications
and Technology, Syria.
Imad Sabouni is also a member of the Syrian Computer Society (SCS) where he became Deputy Chairman in
2003. His major domains of interest include ICT policies and Strategies, multilinguism, and Arabic
content creation.
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Mr. Alireza Saleh
Technical Manager, IRNIC .ir ccTLD |
Born on 11 August 1976 in Tehran (Iran), Graduated from Iran University of Science and Technology
(IUST) in 2000, From 1995 – 1998, Working as a technical assistant of university’s computer center.
From 1998 till now I have been working for Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics
(IPM) as a member of routing and DNS team and head of security team. I have been working as technical
manager of IRNIC .ir ccTLD since 2003. I have also been working as IP-Network and VOIP infrastructure
consultant of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Ministry of Energy of Iran. IDN,
ENUM, DNSsec and Internet Telephony are my current projects.
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Mr. Adama Samassékou
Président, Académie Africaine des Langues (ACALAN) |
Adama Samassékou est né en 1946 au Mali. Il est actuellement, avec rang de Ministre,
Président de l’Académie Africaine des Langues (ACALAN). Entre juillet 2002 et décembre
2003, il a occupé le poste de Président du Comité Préparatoire (PrepCom) du Sommet Mondial
sur la Société de l’Information (SMSI) pour la phase de Genève. Auparavant, il a été
Ministre de l’Education du Mali (1993-2000) et Porte-Parole du Gouvernement (1997-2000).
Depuis 2003, il est membre du Haut Conseil de la Francophonie.
Très engagé dans la vie associative, il est Président-fondateur du Mouvement des Peuples
pour l’Education aux Droits Humains, en association avec PDHRE International, et depuis le
21 octobre 2005, Président de la Fédération Internationale d’ICVolontaires. Monsieur
Samassékou a été, sur le plan politique, le Président-fondateur de l’Association
ADEMA-France.
Titulaire d’un Master en philologie et linguistique de l’Université d’Etat Lomonossov de
Moscou, d’un DEA en linguistique africaine de la Sorbonne et d’un DESS de consultation et
formation dans les organisations de Paris-IX (Dauphine), il a été Chef du Département de
linguistique de l’Institut des Sciences Humaines du Mali, puis Directeur de la Bibliothèque
nationale et Conseiller du Ministre chargé de la Culture.
Il parle et écrit bamanan (bambara), songay (songhay), fulfulde (peul), français, russe et
anglais.
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Dr. Gautam Sengupta
University of Hyderabad, India. |
Gautam Sengupta received his Ph.D. in linguistics in 1990 from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst and joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University in the same year as Assistant Professor of
Linguistics. He was appointed Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in 1993 and Professor
of Applied Linguistics in 2001 at the University of Hyderabad. His areas of research and publication
include syntax, semantics, computational linguistics and philosophy of language. In 2003 Dr. Sengupta
founded the School of Linguistics & Language Technology at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and was
appointed its first Director.
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Mr. Sergey Sharikov
CEO of Regtime.net Ltd / MINC |
Sergey Sharikov is CEO and founder of Regtime.net Ltd.
Regtime.net Ltd is lead dotRU registrar and first Russian registrar of Cyrillic Language domain names.
He and his friends founded this company on 2000 and they initiated Russian language domains registry
and first top level domains on Cyrillic.
Also Sergey Sharikov is founder and co-chair of Russian Language Network Information Center – registry
of full Cyrillic ccTLD domains.
Prior to his current business, Sergey spent over 10 years working in large Russian regional ISP
Samarainternet Co.
Sergey is 54.
Sergey was elected to Board of MINC in 2004, now he is a Founding Member of The Native Cultures,
Languages an Linguistic Advisory Council of MINC.
He is Member of Registrar Committee of dotRU Registry.
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Mr. Ayman El-Sherbiny
UN ESCWA |
Ayman El-Sherbiny is an international development strategist and management executive in the
Telecommunications and Information Technology field, with diverse experiences within the United Nations,
private sector and multinational corporations, in countries of West Asia and the gulf region. A
co-founder/CEO of several renowned ICT companies in the Middle East, his current responsibilities
involve advising Telecom and Information Technology public/private sectors in 13 member states in
Western Asia on issues related to Internet Governance, multilingualization of the Internet and ICT
industries, in addition to developing and promoting major initiatives aiming at regional integration.
A holder of B.Sc. in Telecommunications with honors from Ain-Shams University, Cairo and an MBA in
International Business from ESLSCA, Paris. Founding member of the ABIF “Arab Broadband Internet Forum”,
the “Arab Domain Names Task Force”, as well as EIEF “Egypt’s International Economic Forum”.
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Mr. Subramanian Subbiah
Chairman, i-DNS.net |
S. Subbiah is the Chairman of i-DNS.net, the venture capital -funded spin-off from National University of
Singapore (NUS) that championed IDN. A pioneer on IDN, he coined the term “IDN” while being part of the team
from NUS that in 1997/8 invented/developed the original IDN technology.
Dr. Subbiah has a degree in Mathematical Physics from England and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard.
A published author of peer-reviewed articles primarily in the area of computational biology and bioinformatics,
a book, distributed research software and some CDs and contributed to scientific TV programs, he has also
founded or co-founded several venture-backed start-ups located in Silicon Valley or Singapore and centered on
either Internet/computing technology or biotechnology.
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Mr. Wang Feng
Engineer, CNNIC, China |
Born on 9 May, 1977 in Shandong (China), Wang Feng graduated from Shandong University in 1999.
He obtained his Master of Engineering degree in Computer Software and Theory at Computer Network
Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CNIC, CAS) in 2003, and received his Ph.D degree
in Computer Architecture at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT, CAS)
in 2005.
Mr. Wang joined China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in 2005, in charge of new technology
R&D, including CDN, IMA, ENUM, Handle, DNS, RFID and etc.
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Mr. Tan Tin Wee
Professor, National University of Singapore
Board Member, Multilingual Internet Names Consortium |
Born 1 January 1962 in Singapore, TAN Tin Wee graduated from Trinity College University of Cambridge
in 1985 in the Natural Sciences Tripos, took a Masters in Applied Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
in University College London (1986) before obtaining a PhD (Recombinant Chlamydial Vaccines) (1989).
Since 1990, he has been with the National University of Singapore in various posts from Lecturer to
Associate Professor at the Dept of Biochemistry, Head of Technet Unit, Singapore’s first ISP (1994),
Head of Internet Research and Development Unit (IRDU)(1995), Director of Bioinformatics Centre, National
University of Singapore (1996), Principal Investigator of the Singapore Advanced Research and Education
Network (SINGAREN) (1997), Master, Eusoff Hall (2003), as well as spun off several companies for the
university, including i-DNS.net International, Bioinformatrix Pte Ltd, Bioinformatics Technology Group
Pte Ltd, Kris Tech, KOOPrime Pte Ltd. He has published widely in Internet technology and Bioinformatics,
and pioneered a number of Internet technologies including multilingual Internet and Internationalized
Domain Names (IDN) in the 1990s. For his achievements, he has received numerous awards such as MEDINFO’92
Gold Medal, Singapore Youth Award (1994), Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Education Award (1997),
ASEAN Business Forum Achievement Award in Research and Development (1997), Life Insurance Association
Award for contributions to disabled people (1997), Supercomputing’03 High Performance Computing award.
He has co-founded and steered a number of international organisations and conferences including Asia
Pacific Advanced Network (APAN), Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG), Asia Pacific Bioinformatics
Network (APBioNet), International Conference on Bioinformatics, S* Life Science Informatics Alliance,
ASEAN Science and Technology Research and Education Network Alliance (ASTRENA) and serves on the boards
of the Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC), listed company Keppel Telecommunications and
Transportation, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the International Centre
for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI) and the editorial board of several scientific journals.
It is in the context of his invention of IDN in 1998 and his continued association with the global IDN
movement to multilingualise the Internet for the benefit of the disenfranchised masses that do not use
the default Internet language as their native tongue that he will be presenting at this conference.
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Mr. Johannes Christian Wichard
Deputy Director, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center |
Johannes Christian Wichard, a national of Germany, is Deputy Director of the WIPO Arbitration and
Mediation Center and Head of its Legal Development Section. He holds a masters degree from Harvard
Law School, a PhD in law from Tübingen University, Germany, and is admitted to the New York Bar.
Before joining WIPO in 1998, he was responsible for trademark and unfair competition law in the
German Federal Ministry of Justice, and, before that, taught private law and private international
law at the Universities of Tübingen and Berlin.
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Mr. Ahmad Zaki Abu Bakar
Professor, Multilingual Knowledge Management System,
Language Observatory, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |
Ahmad Zaki bin Abu Bakar from the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems,
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), is one of the founding member of the Language
Observatory Project based at Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. He holds a Ph.D.
in Artificial Intelligency from UTM (1989), a MSc in Computer Engineering from the
California Polytechnic State University, U.S.A (1984), a BSc on Electronic Engineering
from Essex University. U.K. (1981); and a Diploma in Electrical Engineering (1977). He is
also the Dean of International Affairs at UTM and Chairman of the Multilingual Information
Technology National Standards Committee as well as the E-Commerce National Standards
Committee. He has been an academic since 1977 and has been involved in Multilingual
Information Technology since 1982 with emphasis on Machine Translation. He held various
related positions such as Director of the Malaysian Division of the Joint Research in
Multilingual Computer Translation Project between Japan, Malaysia, China, Thailand and
Indonesia (1989 -1996), founding Managing Director of the Malaysian National Institute of
Translation (1993 - 1996) and the Malaysian Official Representative to the Global
Information Infrastructure for Equal Language Opportunity Forum (1992 - 2000). He is also
a Malaysian Cyber Novelist, with two novels published in 1997 and 2000, which won him the
National Literature Award (2000); and Holder of the Malaysian Book of Records for First
Malaysian Cyber Novel (2001)
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Mr. Houlin ZHAO
Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
of the INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION (ITU), Geneva |
Born on 7 March 1950 in Jiangsu (China), Houlin ZHAO graduated from Nanjing University of Posts
and Telecommunications (NUPT) in 1975. Between 1979 and 1980, he studied as a visiting scholar in
Switzerland. He joined the University of Essex (United Kingdom) in 1984, where he obtained a Master
of Science degree in Telematics in 1985.
From 1975 to 1986, he worked as an engineer in the Designing Institute of the Chinese Ministry of Posts
and Telecommunications (now known as “Ministry of Information Industry” (MII)), responsible for projects
in the areas of telex, data communication, non-voice transmission, telephone switching and mobile networks.
He took an active part in his country’s experts meetings on national telecommunication standards. He
received a second prize in 1985 for his science and technology achievements in the Ministry of Posts
and Telecommunications. In addition, his work in the Departments of Planning, Capital Construction and
Network Maintenance in the Ministry earned him an engineering project prize for his outstanding
performance and contributions in the planning, designing and construction of a number of major national
network projects. Between 1982 and 1983, he participated in CCITT Study Group meetings.
Mr. Zhao joined the CCITT Secretariat (now TSB) in 1986.
Mr. Zhao was elected Director of TSB at the 1998 Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis (USA),
and took office on 1 February 1999. Mr. Zhao was re-elected for a second term (2003-2006) as Director
of TSB at the 2002 Plenipotentiary Conference in Marrakesh (Morocco).
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