ICANN At Large Nomination Application

At Large Candidate Page

Calvin Browne

Email	calvin@uniforum.org.za
Region	Africa

PROFESSIONAL
Employer(s)
The most important relationship in Internet related businesses would be my Directorship of UniForum SA (http://co.za). UniForum SA currently administers the co.za domain name space, which is to the best of my knowlege, the largest zone in Africa and accounts for approximately 95% of South Africa's namespace. I play the the following roles in the organisation:- a) Financial Director b) Vice Chairperson of the board c) Responsibilities for legal matters d) Joint spokesperson NB UniForum SA is a company incorporated under Section 21 of the South African Companies Act, which means that is has no shareholding nor can any profits the corporation may make be distributed. I am a partner in Flame Computing Enterprises CC (http://flamecomputing.com). This is a consulting company that provides Intenet related services for small to medium sized businesses. I am the honarary treasurer of the Linux Professional Association (http://www.lpa.org.za). I am a director and shareholder in Domain Name Services (PTY) LTD, a private company that was was originally set up during the CORE domain name era for qualification as a CORE registry. The company is dormant, has never traded and I mention it only for completeness.
QUALIFICATIONS
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I have attended and actively taken part in the ICANN meetings held in Singapore, Washington, Berlin, Cairo and Yokohama. I have participated in AFNOG, AfriNIC and Ripe NCC, ISOC and INET events. I have been involved in the domain name debate since 1995 in a global scale. In the South African context, I served on the ISOC ZA board as committee member in charge of Membership. I have been a part of the Drafting Committee which was set up by ISOC ZA to address the .za namespace issues. I have been involved in the setup of an ISP, and understand the issues involved in connecting thousands of workstations with a single Class C address range.
ICANN RELATED INTERESTS
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BACKGROUND
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I started working in the 90's doing my Accounting Articles (equivalent of the American CPA). In around 1993, I started implementing large scale Unix based accounting, MRP and logistics based Information Systems. After completing my accounting article (I have not completed the necessary studies to complete this qualification), and based on my experiences on the internet, I joined a computer networking company and was instrumental in setting up a small to medium (in the South African context) ISP. During that time, my involvement in UniForum SA made more and more demands on my time, and eventually I made a decision to part from the ISP, set up my own consulting company, and spend the necessary time on .co.za naming issues. Homepage URL: http://orange-tree.alt.za
OFFICIAL STATUS
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