Re: [DC3] URGENT for the IGF Proposal

Nico, I am not sure you need mine (I think I am the moderator, right?). Here it goes (no time to summarize more at this point). fraternal regards --c.a. ==== Carlos Alberto Afonso Studied naval engineering at the Polytechnical School of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Master in Economics, York University, Toronto, Canada, with doctoral studies in Social and Political Thought at the same university. Works in human development fields since the early 1970s, when he worked with Chile's National Planning Office under Salvador Allende's government. Has been active as a consultant for UNDP, IDRC (Canada), Kellogg Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and other international organizations, on themes related to communications, ICTs and human development, in Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, São Tome and Principe, among other countries. Co-founder of the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analyses, Ibase (1981), Rio de Janeiro, where he conceived and led the first Internet services provider project in the country (Alternex, 1989). Co-founder of the Association for Progressive Communications, APC (1990), an international consortium of NGOs with the overall mission of promoting universal access and democratization of information and communication. Proposed and coordinated the Eco '92 Internet project in Rio de Janeiro in association with APC and the UN. Board member of Brazil's Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), 1995-1997/2003-2014. Member of the UN's Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) -- 2004-2005. Member of ICANN's GNSO (Generic Domain Names Supporting Organization) -- 2003-2004 -- on behalf of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC). Chairperson of NCUC -- 2005-2006. Special advisor to the Brazilian co-chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), 2007. From 2009 to 2011 was a member of UNCTAD Expert Group on ICT and Poverty Alleviation. Board member of Telebras (Brazil's state company in charge of the National Broadband Plan) -- 2010-2012. Co-founder and current board member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). Current chair of the Brazilian chapter of Internet Society, and executive director of the Nupef Institute, a research, policy advocacy and learning center focused on leveraging ICTs for sustainable human development. Recipient of LACNIC's Lifetime Achievement Award (2010) and of APC's Betinho Prize (2015). ==== On 06/06/2016 19:19, Nicolás Echániz wrote: _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3