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At-Large Advisory Committee Announces Delegates to ICANN's 2004 Nominating
Committee

ICANN's Interim At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) today announced that
it selected five volunteers from five different regions of the world to
serve as members of the Nominating Committee, which will select members
of ICANN's Board of Directors as well as individuals to serve in other
leadership positions. The At-Large delegates to the Nominating Committee
are:

• Africa - Simbo Ntiro
• Asia/Australia/Pacific - Pavan Duggal
• Europe - Jeanette Hofmann
• Latin America/Caribbean - Jos� Luis Barzallo
• North America - Alan Davidson

Information on the delegates is included below.

Recommendations for delegates were solicited by the ALAC from the organizations
that have been certified (or have applied for certification) as At-Large
Structures.
Additional volunteers responded to a notice in the ALAC's April
monthly announcement. The ALAC believes this group of delegates reflects
the global interests of the At-Large community and meets the detailed
criteria set forth in ICANN's
bylaws, and applauds their willingness to serve the Internet community.

The Nominating Committee's members, including 12 voting delegates in
addition to the 5 appointed by the ALAC, will serve one-year terms. This
year's Nominating Committee will be filling the following positions: 3
seats on ICANN’s
Board of Directors; 1 seat on the GNSO
Council; 2 seats on the ALAC
(for Europe and North America regions); and 3 seats on the ccNSO
Council.

Please contact committee@alac.icann.org
with questions relating to this announcement.

Biographies of At-Large delegates to the 2004 Nominating Committee:

• Africa - Simbo Ntiro -- Mr. Ntiro is a management
  consultant at World Ahead Consulting Network, and an independent management
  consultant focused on digital opportunities for Tanzania’s development.
  He is a DOT Force alumni, participates in the UN ICT Task Force, and
  is part of Tanzania technical team that supports the country's involvement
  in WSIS. He also is a member Tanzania’s Ministry of Communications
  and Transport National ICT Task Force that drafted the National ICT
  Policy and is preparing nationwide implementation plans.
• Asia/Australia/Pacific - Pavan Duggal -- Mr. Duggal
  is a practicing Advocate in the Supreme Court of India at New Delhi,
  specializing in Cyberlaw & E-Commerce law, and has done pioneering
  work in the field of Convergence Law. He is the Founder and President
  of Cyberlaw Asia and has been associated with UNESCO on Ethical, Legal,
  and Societal Challenges of Cyberspace in Asia and the Pacific. Duggal
  was a member of the 2003 Nominating Committee.
• Europe - Jeanette Hofmann -- Ms. Hofmann is a Professor
  of Political Science at Universität Duisburg-Essen, Fachbereich
  Politikwissenschaft, and Head of the Research Unit on Internet Governance
  at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung und Nexus (Social
  Science Research Center Berlin). She also is a Fellow of the Collaborative
  Research Center 597, Transformations of the State, focusing on "Regulation
  and Legitimation in the Internet." Hofmann also is involved in
  the World Summit on the Information Society, the Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission
  e.V., and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
• Latin America/Caribbean - José Luis Barzallo
  -- Mr. Barzallo is an attorney with Barzallo & Barzallo Peñaherrera,
  and a consultant at the BID Inter-American Development Bank and the
  Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property. He also teaches electronic
  commerce law at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, and is President
  of the Ecuadorian Association of Informatics Law and Telecommunications.
  Barzallo also is a national and international lecturer at numerous seminars
  and courses on electronic commerce.
• North America - Alan Davidson -- Mr. Davidson is
  Associate Director at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT),
  a Washington D.C. non-profit group working to promote civil liberties
  and human rights on the Internet and other new digital media. He works
  broadly on issues relating to Internet policy including free speech
  and censorship, copyright, and Internet governance. This year Davidson
  is a Visiting Scholar at MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society
  and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's program in Communications,
  Culture, and Technology.