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:
The current form requests a bio of each proposed
speaker.
Please, if you are in the speaker list add at least 20 words of bio in
the pad:
https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/DC3_Workshop_Proposal_IGF_2016
We need to submit the proposal ASAP.
Luca is catching a plane so I'm filling the form.
Cheers!
Nico
_______________________________________________
DC3 mailing list
DC3(a)listas.altermundi.net
https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3