Johannes Kuo-huie Chiang

Name: Johannes Kuo-huie CHIANG
Country of citizenship: Taiwan, ROC
Place of residence: Taipei
Email address: chi@mis.nccu.edu.tw
Professional/Employer(s):
(More detail: http://www.myicann.net/chiang)

1. 1994 – now: Associate Professor, Department of MIS, National Cheng-Chi University (NCCU), Taipei, Research areas: Internet and Business Data Communication, Internet Economics and Ecology, Network-centric Computing for MIS, Hypertext and CSCW, Digital Library.
2. 1996 – now: Adjunct Chief Executive Officer in charge of the Internet Open University and the Electronic-Business Learning Program for SMEs, Research and Learning Center of SMEs Northern Taiwan (NSME), College of Commerce, NCCU, Taipei.
3. 1988 – 1994: Research Staff and Project Executive in charge of an EU’s ESPRIT project, German BMFT FG6 (Research Group 6 of Federal Ministry of Research and Technology) and DFG projects in the areas of TQM and IT, ADITEC Center on the RWTH Aachen, Germany.
4. 1981 – 1986: Associate Researcher and Project Leader in charge of projects of Robotics, Data Communication, CNC, Measurement Systems, MIRL/ITRI, ROC.
5. 1983 – 1984 Visiting Scholar on the Fraunhoefer Institute at the RWTH Aachen, Research Fields: Measurement Data Processing and Communication, Robotics. Also short-term visiting on the University of Wisconsin Madison and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute of Technology, USA.

Statement of Qualifications and Experience

I am an Internet citizen with integrity and over-20-year hard working for internet-related technologies and for the technology management. I have conducted Internet researches into scientific, economic and cultural perspectives, and also worked in its practices with engineering, business and social considerations. As a government IT consultant, I’ve evolved with various projects related to Internet infrastructure, organizational policies and E-Commerce, that will help ICANN with Internet protocol, DNS policy and economical point of views, etc. Besides regular university courses, I am also involved in programs of social education and cultural cyberspace on the Internet so that I am near to non-business Internet users besides business users. Before, I have worked over 10 years in Europe in IT and managerial areas.

Based on the experiences learned from the following three types of activities, I am eager to contribute my knowledge and time-sharing to a transparent, effective and innovative ICANN. (See the last part of this page)

1. Being a professor, I have conduct projects in (1) Internet Technologies; (2) Internet Community, Economics and Ecology, E-Business; (3) Internet Taxing and ICANN related issues, and (4) Decision Science and Technology Management. My administrative responsibilities for these projects encompassed personnel, financial and technology management.
2. As a consultant to government agencies, I have been involved with various levels of Next-Generation-Internet projects, i.e. NAP-level (Taipei GigaPoP), state-level (gov. networks), and city-level (Next-Generation Information Cities). My responsibilities for these projects encompassed surveys of technical trend, verification of designs, suggestions for the purchase and testing plans.
3. For the cultural cyberspace and for social education, I have worked on (1) A multilingual document management System with a specific full-text search engine (2) Mandarin voice transmission (3) the Han-Tomb Digital Museum (4) an Internet Open University for SME and (5) Labor information network systems, including one in connection with Indo-China countries. My experiences stated above should be valuable for the Multilingual DNS and the Non-business Constituency.

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Particularly relevant to leadership and policy-level roles, I have extensive experiences in management of large-scale projects. The following exemplifies any credential in this aspect:

1. I am the co-founder and adjunct Chief Executive Officer of the NSME Center facing over million SME employees in Northern Taiwan;
2. Since recently, I am project leader of an E-C project of MoE Taiwan. Its goal is to investigate E-C strategies and platforms Taiwanese IT industry adopted and their impacts;
3. I have initiated, proposed and in the first phase executed an ESPRIT project that is of very large scale and embraces 5 organisations (e.g. Mercedes Benz and Rover) from 3 countries;
4. I was the co-founder and project leader of the German BMFT FG 6, i.e. a research affiliation of 10 university institutes and a company.

For such projects, I have to coordinate the work-packages of project partners, to plan the budget and cost breakdown, to develop the exploitation and dissemination plan, and to carry out strategic suggestions for the relevant government agencies.

ICANN Related Interests

I am in a neutral position to ICANN-related interests, neither pro nor contra. I am employed by the NCCU as a professor and play a volunteer role of consultant to research institutions, enterprises and government agencies except the Directorate General of Telecom. Administration Taiwan. Hence, there is no direct and indirect relation between my career and ICANN-related interests.

I have no investment interests in any kind of ICANN-related businesses, e.g. in any ISP/ASP.

I have no official positions in ICANN-related businesses or organization, e.g. in TWNIC.

Personal Statement

We prepare here Web-pages in different languages for your comfortable reading, such as in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese (GB) and Traditional Chinese (Big 5). My URL: http://www.myicann.net/chiang/

We would like to apologized to all those who cannot find their native languages above. It is impossible to translate this page into all the languages in the limited time. So, please think about those who cannot use Internet just because they don’t know English. So, let us support Multilingual Domain Systems together in this region.

I hold an academic degree of Dr.-Ing. from RWTH Aachen Germany and a BSc. degree from NCKU Taiwan.

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* I am eager to contribute and have rich working experiences in national and international projects so that I am capable to maintain good relationship with organizations from other regions, particularly with those from Europe and America. This is naturally a plus for a regional representative to communicate and achieve supports from others in the ICANN Director Board. As a researcher actively interacting with international experts such as the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC), the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and collaborative projects with Institutions from Australia, Japan and South Korea, I am comfortable with international events.

If elected, I will do my best to reflect and fulfill the requirements of AAP Internet citizens in joint decision making within the ICANN Board, but will not pursue a narrow-minded governance of the Internet affairs. Currently, I have begun to call a team of young fellows from this region for studying the requirements on Internet in different territories. Thereafter, we would like to bring our vision and tactical positions to the ICANN Director Board as following.

We believe, that the policy and decision making of the ICANN director Board should lead to the following as:

1. To develop, in the first place, the policy and strategies towards an Asia- Australian-Pacific Information Village, which can lead to the overall Global Information Village
2. To ensure that for every individual and group of individuals, the geographic resident locations, the languages used, the technical and economic conditions shall not be the barriers to the free Internet access
3. To remedy the Digital Gap between regions, countries and areas, particularly to facilitate Internet access for those who can not use Internet until now
4. To develop preventive strategies and methods for resolving and avoiding potential conflicts related to Internet resources, instead of applying existing rules and laws alone from the physical world
5. To investigate next-generation IP to enhance the connectivity, performance, reliability and availability of Internet, and lastly ensure a minimal bandwidth for users
6. To enhance the guiding values such as democracy, transparency, bottom-up process, equal rights, decentralization, privacy, minimal cost and equity as stated in the brief comments of the Yokohama Statement on Civil Society and ICANN Elections by the Non-business Constituency in July 2000.

Regarding the visions, our tactical positions should be as following:

1. To minimize the Domain Name costs
2. To introduce new gTLD without unnecessary restrictions
3. To diversify the IP allocation for our region in accordance to its population in comparison to those of North America and Europe
4. To support the Multilingual Domain Name Systems for our cultural diversity and notice the development of the numbered Internet Domain Name in the Far-East region
5. To identify and introduce the next-generation Internet Protocols such as IPv6 (enlargement), Mobile-IP (mobility) and MPLS (bandwidth and performance)
6. To introduce preventive thinking into UDRP to avoid potential confrontations in relation to DNS and physical IDs
7. To enhance the outreach and the awareness of At-Large membership in the AAP region
8. To realize a structured Internet Civil Forum
9. To allow at-large membership to determine majority, if not all, increase director seats for the Asia-Australian-Pacific Region

If you find that our opinions as stated above do not reflect your requirements, please discuss with me via e-mail chi@mis.nccu.edu.tw and at the best joint our team.

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