ICANN At Large Nomination Application

At Large Candidate Page

Francesco Ravanelli

Email	franz@ravanelli.com
Region	Europe

PROFESSIONAL
Employer(s)
I work for an Italian domain registration services.
QUALIFICATIONS
Statement addressing the candidates qualifications and experience specifically relevant to (a) ICANN's technical and administrative responsibilities, and (b) your leadership and policy-level roles.
(a) Daily, I work on the Net to help net-citizens to get a user-friendly domains service registration. I keep in touch with the soul of the Net and I discover their opinions and how the demands change day after day. Operating on global and local base, I saw different uses of the new medias. For example, I provide Customer care services and contents to one of the importantest Maintainer for IT top level domain and I was the main speaker of a course beginners-oriented at the local library, I promoted the computer of a well-known European producer but I was a contributor of the "City Web" of my Province, too. (b) All these and other activities allow me to know many people in different places and with different skills. The most important thing is not just to know how to understand a network-engineer (it's necessary but not enough); it's to explain with simple words the things which may look hard to understand for the most of people.
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)I'm employed at an Italian registrar for IT domains; it offers COM/NET/ORG/... domains, too. (b)I manage different Internet domains; I registered domains which may be useful for some famous people, Company and Institution (as Kournikova, Moric, In-Q-Tel, career services, ...) to give them these domains free of charge when they decide to get their identity on the Net in Europe and to avoid that cybersquatters get their identities on the web, as it happened to me. (c)Only in the above mentioned registrar.
BACKGROUND
Background information, personal statement, URL, or other information you would like posted in connection with your name on the ICANN website.
Main free-time activities and projects: Forum about rights on the Net, idendities-surnames protection, ... My surname was registered by Nicky Grauso, an Italian cybersquatter, and so I registered www.grauso.co.uk and I built a forum dedicated to cybersquatting, privacy and other rights-on-the-Net there; GR.A.USO was used as an acronymous of "GRuppo Attenti (nell')USO" (translated: "User Group - careful in the use"). Recently, I made interviews about the site I dedicated to cybersquatting with Repubblica.it and other Italian important e-zine (Il Sole - 24 Ore, ...) and radios. I registered domains which may be useful for some famous people, Company and Institution (as Anna Kournikova, Nina Moric, In-Q-Tel, career services, ...) to give these domains free of charge to the right owner if they decide to get their identity on the Net in Europe and to avoid that they find domains important for them already taken by cybersquatters, as it happened to me. My Personal Home Pages www.ravanelli.com www.ravanelli.co.uk Other projects GR.A.USO - "GRuppo Attenti (nell')USO" (translated: "User Group - careful in the use") www.grauso.co.uk Intelligence Project www.in-q-tel.co.uk MAIN NET-RELATED EXPERIENCES Customer care and content provider for one of the importantest Maintainer for IT top level domain 1999 Olidata Promoter of the above mentioned computers producer (E-Marketing) Freelance of an Italian Internet Service Provider and webmaster of an Italian guide to e-commerce and shopping on-line 1998 Regione Lombardia Contributor of "Aladino", guide to the studies after the High School Giovani.net Webmaster of the "Links Space" of the above mentioned young-oriented Italian site SOME NOT-NET-RELATED EXPERIENCES After winning some competitions (patronized by the European Parliament), I visited the seat of the EU Parliament in Strasbourg and I took part in "Euroschola ‘97" (the European Day of the School), in Bruxelles. Sworn member of the Bergamo Novel Prize for three editions, I was member of the Committee of Seriate library.
OFFICIAL STATUS
Status as an official of a national government or a multinational entity established by treaty or other agreement between national governments, such as an elected official or employee of a government or multinational entity.
I'm not an official of a national government or a multinational entity. 'Till March 2000, I was a Carabiniere, with military police duties, at the Joint Command South (Verona), a located in Italy base of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).