Ms. Minjung PARK
Seoul, South Korea - Senior Research Associate, KoreaInternet & Security Agency (KISA)
Short Bio
Minjung Park is in charge of international relations at KRNIC(Korea Network Inf ormation Center ) of KISA(Korea Internet & Security Agency).
Minjung joined KISA in 2004 and since then has been involved in developing both domestic and international policy for IDN ccTLD. Ms.Park has been participating in ICANN and APTLD meetings since 2004 and was involved in most of the IDN ccTLD related WGs. Ms.Park was also deeply involved in developing registration policy for second level ASCII.kr in Korea which was successfully launched in 2006 and was in charge of implementing Korean ccTLD ‘ .한국’, which was also successfully launched in 2011. She received a Master of International Studies(M.I.S) from the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University and holds a Bachelor of Arts in French Literature and a Bachelor of Business Administration, both from Ewha Womans University.
Ms. Min, Byoung Won
Seoul, South Korea – Professor, Ewha Womans University
Short Bio
I have been working for the Korean Internet Governance Forum for a year with a close connection to the Korean Internet and Security Agency. Also I have been teaching as a professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Public Policy, Seoul National University of Technology for seven years. Now I am a professor at the department of political science and international relations, Ewha Womans University, where I am teaching global governance and internet policies.
Mr. Kye-Nam Lee
Seoul, South Korea - Division Vice President, KoreaInternet & Security Agency (KISA)
Short Bio
He is currently a division vice president of KISA(Korea Internet & Security Agency) and a director of KRNIC, .kr domain registry. He has more than 20 years' experience in Internet development of Korea. He began his career in Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion(KADO) and worked actively to resolve digital divide issues in Korea. After joining KISA in 2001, he has devoted himself to Internet address management and promotion. He has extensive expertise in local Internet policies and Internet industry. Now he's responsible for .kr/Korean IDN management and IPv6 promotion in Korea.
Mr. Jaechon Park
Seoul, South Korea – Chair – Korea Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA)
Short Bio
He is currently a professor at Inha University. He is teaching Internet policies at Graduate School of IT & Telecommunications.
He was a board member of DACOM( currently LG U+). He earned a bachelor of Engineering at Seoul National University, master of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of Tech and a PhD in Economics at University of Hawaii.
Mr. Adam Peake
Tokyo, Japan - Executive Research Fellow/Associate, Professor, GLOCOM, International University of Japan
Short Bio
Based in Tokyo, Adam Peake works on telecommunications, Internet and broadband policy, and Internet governance. Active in policy-making activities for the deployment and development of the Internet since the mid-1990s, he currently contributes to ICANN and the IGF. Chair of the 2011 ICANN Nominating Committee. Member of the UN Secretary-General's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) 2006 - 2008, currently part-time Consultant to IGF secretariat.
Mr. Fouad Bajwa
Lahore, Pakistan - Public Policy Analyst, Researcher and Advisor, Internet Research Project (Pakistan) Member Cohort-2012-13 at the Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Lahore
Short Bio
Fouad Bajwa has been actively engaged in ICT and Internet Public Policy related issues and advocacy for over a decade. He has been an entrepreneur, a social enterprise manager, an academic and researcher. His civil society and advocacy group regularly engages with Internet policy makers through face-to-face and media interventions that has facilitated the evolution of pluralism and dissent online. He was a participant in the WSIS process and a Member of the MAG of the Internet Governance Forum from 2009-2012. As a Public Policy Expert, Fouad engages with various organizations and initiatives in Pakistan and other regions on policy areas related to ICT4D, innovation, multi-sectoral and cross-cutting research. From 2004-2007 Fouad led the Free and Open Source Software FOSS movement in Pakistan that helped establish an open and parallel industry ecosystem in the country also featured during WSIS 2005. From 2007 to 2009, Fouad managed a US$160 million dollar ICT4Dinternationalpartnership portfolio for a global low-cost computing program. Fouad has worked with various multilateral organizations carrying out technical capacity transfer missions in the areas of ICT4D, ICT Policy, Open Innovation and more recently was engaged as an internationally recruited consultant with ITU, UNCTAD and UNESCWA. He has been serving as the Co-Vice Chair of APRALO At-Large at ICANN from 2010-2012 and now from 2012-2014. Fouad advocates for an open and multisktakeholder ICT and Internet public policy processes in Pakistan andempiricallymonitors the growth of the Internet and DNS market in Pakistan.
Mr. Shreedeep Rayamajhi
Kathmandu, Nepal- Activist/Blogger, RayzNews
Short Bio
An established writer, activist and blogger, Shreedeep Rayamajhi has beenassociatedwith onlinejournalism for more than 10 years.Starting his career as a main stream journalist from a national English daily and working his way towards travel writing he hasbroughtissue ofconcerns byhis hard lines and stories.
Recognizing the importance of blogging and news making, currently he practices to be a news and blogging consultant for various local organizations. Founding member of the ISOC Nepal Chapter currently he holds the position of aLife Member.Though a Management post graduates, heinterests and blogs about various issues of technology, activism andclimatechange. Giving importanceto blogging and news, Rayznews is one of his current projects. With high flair and motive of understanding the concept of internet as a tool of development for change, he has been working towards raising awareness about various aspect of internet standardization in Nepal.
Mr. Asif Kabani
Pakistan - Director, (Head of Research and Project), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, GoP
Short Bio
Asif Kabani is an international governance expert he plays a key role in Internet governance policy debates and public policy development to Internet Governance and Development with particular focus on Sustainable Development with fostering relationships between Governments, businesses, civil society and academics. He has more than 15 years of working experience with Government, donor, CSO and UN system including UN DESA, UN office Geneva at IGF, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNODC, and UNDP.
He has also worked as Sr. Director, Technical expert and Program Manager with Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), UASAID, UN and Government ofPakistan He is Next Generation Leaders of ISOC - OCED, Fellow of Diplo Foundation and UN Fellow in filed of Internet Governance. He has been educated with MSc in Development Studies, MBA in Information Technology, MBA in Management and member DevEx Group Washington D.C.
Mr. Rafik Dammak
Tokyo, Japan - Engineer
Short Bio
Rafik Dammak is young Tunisian working as computer engineer and living in Tokyo. He hold a degree in Computer Engineering from Engineering school in Tunisia and Msc on applied computer science from the University of Tokyo.
He is a DiploFoundation alumni after completion of the Internet Governance Capacity Building program. He is a former Creative Commons Tunisian license project Public co-leader while he also followed an elearning program WIPO.He has been involved in ICANN community as NCUC (Non-commercial users constituency) individual user member , former elected GNSO Councillor for the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group and member of NCSG executive committee in addition to participation to several ICANN WGslike the new gTLD applicant support or JAS WG where he is the co-chair. He is currently member of the ICANN nominating committee. He is involved on advocacy for Human Rights, privacy, freedom of expression. He become recently member of CSISAC steering committee, CSISAC is part of OECD ICCP.
Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
Bangladesh - Chief Executive Officer, Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication &
Member Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum
Short Bio
AHM Bazlur Rahman-S21BR is Chief Executive Officer and founder Secretary of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC). BNNRC is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
AHM Bazlur Rahman has more than 20 years experience in leveraging media and communication to create successful policy advocacy in Bangladesh in line with rural development.
Concerned with millions of people still deprived of basic needs and the benefits of Information and Communication Technology in Bangladesh, 2000 he founded Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) as a national networking body working for building a democratic society based on the principles of free flow of information, equitable & affordable access to Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) of remote & marginalized population. BNNRC is registered with NGO Affairs Bureau and Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of Bangladesh and established in 2000 as per Article 19 charter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
From 1998 - 2010, he headed an advocacy group on behalf of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) that pioneered the introduction of community radio in Bangladesh.
He graduated from University of Dhaka and Post graduated from Asian University of Bangladesh in the field of Social Science (MSS) in Government & Politics.
He has worked extensively in Bangladesh and South Asia on variety of action research projects in Development Communication, mostly focused on ICT for Development(ICT4D), Rural Journalism, e-Parliament, Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) Community Broadcasting, Good Governance, Micro-Macro Level advocacy, Institution Building, Social Mobilization, Democracy Education, Transformation Process of International NGO to local NGO, Resource Mobilization, Communication for Development(C4D), Knowledge Management for Development (KM4D) with Bangladesh Development Society(BDS), Action Aid-Bangladesh and The Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust(Coast Trust)
He has published several articles on Community Radio and co-author of Handbook on Community Radio for Good Governance and Development, Handbook on Airwaves Advocacy in Bangladesh and Policy Advocacy Plan for Community Radio in Bangladesh.
He currently member of Bangladesh Working Group on UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) headed by Bangladesh Government, Community Radio Monitoring Committee of Ministry of Information, People’s Republic of Bangladesh, founder member of Bangladesh UN Internet Governance Forum-headed by Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee for Ministry of Post and Telecommunication and Research Fellow, Center for e-Parliament Research.
Mr. Kenny Huang, Ph.D.
Taipei - Board Director, TWNIC
Short Bio
Dr. Kenny Huang is the leading figure of the Internet communities in Asia. Since the early years of Taiwan's Internet development, he contributed a great deal to build up a better Internet environment in Taiwan. Because of his tremendous knowledge and experience, he has been invited to take up leading roles in many Internet technology and policy organizations, including APNIC Executive Council member, APNIC Policy SIG Chair, Address Council member of ICANN ASO, Board Director of PIR (.org gTLD), Board Director of TWNIC (NIR & .tw ccTLD), Chair of TWNIC International Affair Committee, Board Director of MINC (Multilingual Internet Consortium), Advisory Council of dot Asia (.asia gTLD), New gTLD Review Group of ICANN, Founder of APAN TW, Board Director of ISOC Taipei and Executive Advisor of TWIA.
Dr. Huang's contributions have been acknowledged especially in the development of Internet technology. Dr. Kenny Huang is the co-author of RFC3743 of the IETF, the Co-Chair of JET (Joint Engineering Team, formed by JPNIC, KRNIC, CNNIC, TWNIC), Advisor of CDNC (Chinese Domain Name Consortium). Dr. Huang is working closely with government departments in developing technology policies. He is Taiwan e-Government Committee member, Taiwan Government Organization & IT Reform Committee member, principal investigator of Government IPv6 Policy, project leader of Taiwan Future Internet Policy, and Chief Advisor of dot Taipei gTLD Program.
Mr. Peng Hwa Ang
Singapore- Professor & Director, Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University
Short Bio
Professor Ang Peng Hwa is Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Ordering Chaos: Regulating the Internet (Thomson, 2005), which argues that the internet can be, is being and should be regulated.
He was a member of 40-strong Working Group on Internet Governance that was appointed by then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to prepare a report for the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society.
He co-founded the Global Internet Governance Academic Network with Wolfgang Kleinwachter, a community of academics researching internet governance, serving as its inaugural chair. He also kick-started the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum with Edmon Chun, helping to coordinate the first few meetings.
A lawyer by training, he worked as a journalist before going on to pursue a Master’s in communication management at the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in the mass media at Michigan State University.
His teaching and research interests combine law and communication, touching on internet law and policy, censorship, and the social impact of media. His articles have appeared in academic journals as well as trade publications such as the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Singapore Straits Times.
He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and Oxford universities. In 2008, he spent his sabbatical in Ahmedabad, India, to help start a doctoral programme at the Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad.
He is interviewed regularly by the Singapore media and has also appeared in articles in the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, TIME magazine, and the Economist magazine’s Marketplace.
Mr. Izumi Aizu
Tokyo, Japan - Senior Research Fellow & Professor , Institute for InfoSocinomics, Tama University
Short Bio
Izumi Aizu is Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Institute for InfoSocinomics, Kumon Center, Tama University in Tokyo and Deputy Director at the Institute for HyperNetwork Society in Oita, Japan. He is also Co-Chairperson of Information Support pro bono Platform (iSPP), a coordination body for disaster relief works using ICT.
Izumi promoted the use of PC based network and the Internet since 1980s. In 1997, he founded Asia Network Research in Malaysia, focusing on societal aspects of the Internet, global governance and digital divide. In April 2000, he moved back to Tokyo. He represented Japanese NPO under the government’s requests at the Digital Opportunity Task Force from 2000 to 2002.