ICANN At Large Nomination Application

At Large Candidate Page

Yukika Matsumoto

Email	lalamaziwa@jca.apc.org
Region	Asia and Pacific

PROFESSIONAL
Employer(s)
i am independent consultant/researcher/ICT-trainor working with NGOs with various civil society interests. Member, Executive Board, JCA-NET (on voluntary basis)
QUALIFICATIONS
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My responsibility as a member of executive board of JCA-NET, a non-profit Internet Service Provider supporting development of not-for-profit Internet sites in Asia, has lead me to develope strong interest around issues of Internet Governance. I have taken active role in this area by establishing relevant flow of information and initiating the discussion within the organization. Although i am not directly responsible for technological aspects, i have commitments to play key advisory role for site operation of several of the affiliated groups and networks. In this context, i consider the domain name allocation and its management as one of the key issues to be looked into.
ICANN RELATED INTERESTS
ICANN-related interests, including: (a) Employment and consulting relationships (b) Ownership or investment interests in any ICANN-related businesses (c) Official positions in any ICANN-related businesses or organizations
(a) my work with NGOs and communication networks include activities JCA-NET, APC, AWORC, fem-net, VAWW-NET (b) none (c) below in voluntary capacity member, executive board, JCA-NET, 1999.09- (JCA-NET is a member of Association for Progresseive Communications) member, AWORC -- Asian Women's Resource Exchange, 1998.04- member, steering committee, fem-net (online network for women's movement in japan), 1997.10- member, steering committee, Interdoc, 1999.07-
BACKGROUND
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Educaional training in molocular biology. In the past months, there has been a strong move made from the industries to expand the commercial use of Internet. However, Internet should not been seen as a medium for the commercial industries to sell goods and information. Internet should be seen as a place for non-profit groups and civil society to take active role in increasing the free flow of information to create and nuture social diversity and human interaction. There are strong concerns raised from the civil society that ICANN at the summit of policy making on Internet Governance issues may only appreciate views and demands expressed by the industries. In which case, the opportunity for for people at large to participate in such important decision making will be deprived. Especially in case of minorities, there is a cold fact that most of them, expecially users from developing countries and women, has not been able to take part in Internet policy making - despite the fact that many of the "minorities" could not escape interaction with Internet. We must avoid Internet policy making that connects global society making decisions taking account only of the industrial community. It may appear profitable to the industiry in a short term, but there are risks that it will interfere with healthy development of Internet and make it unusable medium for the many. I believe it is profitable for ICANN to have also the civil society committed to overall policy making for the Internet. I wish to provide such viewpoints for ICANN in the event that i suceed in the election. URL JCA-NET www.jca.apc.org APC www.apc.org fem-net www.jca.apc.org/fem
OFFICIAL STATUS
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