Ala'a Al-Din Kadhem Al-Radhi, CIPE (Iraq)
Maarten Botterman, Consultant (UK)
Hans Peter Dittler, BRAINTEC Netzwerk-Consulting (Germany)
Pavan Duggal, Cyberlaws.net (India)
Frans Gerbosch, Rack 66 (Belgium)
Sadiq Hussain, Majan University College (Sultanate of Oman)
Erick Iriarte Ahon, Alfa-Redi (Peru)
Dave Kissoondoyal, Teleforma Mauritius, Ltd
Khaled Koubaa, ICT Independent Consultant (Tunisia)
Nadia McLaren, Union of International Associations (UK/Australia)
Sebastian Ricciardi, Jáuregui & Associates (Argentina)
Oscar Robles-Garay, NIC Mexico .MX (Mexico)
Jaechul Sir, KRNIC (Korea)
Angela Stuber, Grassroots.org (USA - Ohio)
Frannie Wellings, Free Press (USA - DC)
Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House (USA - CA)
John Zoltner, Consultant (Chile)

Ala'a Al-Din Kadhem Al-Radhi, CIPE (Iraq)

Ala'a Al-Din J. Kadhem Al-Radhi is a senior consultant engineer in IT telecommunications systems with a special focus on IT social engineering and security development. Currently residing in Jordan, he has worked and trained in several countries. His 25 years of experience span various governmental, intergovernmental and private enterprises in Iraq, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and France. He has served in several capacities including information systems manager with CIPE (Center for International Private Enterprise); IT/system administrator with Shaw Group Environment USA/Iraq Projects; senior observer/engineer with UN – ITU (International Telecommunications Union)/Iraq program; engineering/marketing manager with Capri Wood Computers, Dubai UAE; and IT/computer work with Bechtel, the Iraqi Ministry of Industry and various private/business firms.

Al-Radhi believes in strengthening the Internet, especially for noncommercial uses. He is fully committed to best practices that advocate Internet stability and security to ensure a strong and secure environment for the global .ORG community.

Maarten Botterman, Consultant (UK)

Maarten Botterman is a policy consultant on information society impact matters, and he advises governments and businesses on dealing with the current and future opportunities and threats to sustainability (economic, social, and environmental) of society and organizations. As director of Information Society Policy Research at RAND Europe, Maarten established a reputation as a knowledge builder in the field. He also is CEO of the UK based Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).

He holds a master’s degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since 1987, Maarten has been working on issues relating to information security, the implementation of ICTs in ways to operate, and governance in the Information Society.

Prior to his assignment at RAND Europe, he was the scientific officer within the European Commission, DG Information Society (ECDGIS). While at the ECDGIS, he was involved in the development of the EU 5th Framework program while working for ACTS (Advanced Telecommunications Technologies and Services: Program Preparation and Evaluation) and IST (Information Society Technologies: New Methods of Work). He also was involved in program monitoring and evaluation at interservice level. Maarten also has worked at the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, both as the head of an information management and EDP department, as well as the senior telework consultant and senior policy adviser on transport telematics.


Hans Peter Dittler, BRAINTEC Netzwerk-Consulting (Germany)

Hans Peter Dittler, originally from and currently living in Germany, is the CEO of BRAINTEC Netzwerk-Consulting, a company focused on Internet and network related consultancy.

Dittler began his business career in the late 1970s at the University of Karlsruhe as a research fellow on communication protocols. In 1980, he was one of the founders of a startup company that focused on developing communication and networking equipment.

In 1987, he was active in the standardization of networking protocols in the IEEE 902.3 LAN/MAN committee and became a voting member in 1989. After 1993 he changed his focus to protocols such as PPP, IPv6 and other Internet-protocols and has since participated in several IETF working groups. His main focus is bringing back new technology from the IETF to companies and users in Germany.

In 1991, he was one of the founding members of DIGI which later became ISOC.DE. DIGI was founded to implement DENIC as a not-for-profit organization owned and supervised by the local community and open for all ISPs that were interested in local domain names. Hans Peter Dittler was the representative of ISOC.DE in the DENIC steering group until 1997.

Since being involved in founding the ISOC.DE, he has remained a member of the board of ISOC.DE. He is one of the German delegates from ISOC.DE to ISOC-ECC, the European Chapters Coordinating Council of ISOC. Based on his long experience with IPv6, he was invited in 2001 to join the German IPv6-taskforce to promote the use of IPv6 throughout Germany and Europe.

Dittler has written books about IPv6 and VoIP and papers on Internet Security and many other aspects of Internet use. He has done several studies on security and network abuse. By conducting workshops, seminars and tutorials, he helps to educate people in the many aspects of network use.

Pavan Duggal, Cyberlaws.net (India)

Pavan Duggal is a practicing advocate in the Supreme Court of India at New Delhi, having specialized in the newly emerging fields of cyberlaw and e-commerce law in the past few years.

An internationally renowned expert and authority on cyberlaw, Duggal also has done pioneering work in the field of convergence law.

He is the founder and president of Cyberlaw Asia, Asia's pioneering organization committed to passing dynamic cyberlaws on the Asian continent. Cyberlaw Asia, a membership-based organization, is engaged in the process of creating greater awareness about cyberlaws in different Asian countries.

Duggal has been associated with UNESCO on the ethical, legal and societal challenges of cyberspace in Asia and the Pacific. He is a member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Nominating Committee representing the Asia-Pacific region and of the Membership Advisory Committee of ICANN. He also is a member of the Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF) of ICANN and is involved in the legal issues of At Large Membership of the organization.

Duggal is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Centre Panel of Neutrals. He has taken an active part in the regional deliberations at Hyderabad relating to the domain names policy formulation undertaken by WIPO.

Frans Gerbosch, Rack 66 (Belgium)

Sadiq Hussain, Majan University College (Sultanate of Oman)

Dr. Sadiq-Hussain is a professor of information technology (IT) at Majan University College, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Arabia. Sadiq has been very active in innovative research and publishing. He has appeared in numerous television and radio broadcasts and contributed to newspapers explaining in simple terms to the public at-large the latest technological marvels.

Prior to lecturing at Majan University College, Sadiq was professor of IT at Knowledge Village Campus, Dubai Free Zone, United Arab Emirates. He has held positions of lecturer at Durham University, and postdoctoral research fellow at Brunel University in England. He has been a visiting professor at Santa Clara University, California, USA; Budapest Technical University, Hungary; and Montpellier University, France. He is also a reviewer for IEEE Internet Magazine, the International Journal of Computer and Network Applications, and a member of International Conferences Technical Program Committees.

Sadiq is the author of eight published textbooks and more than 150 revered research papers published in international journals and international conference proceedings. Sadiq presented papers at international conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Jordan, Morocco, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. Sadiq has received numerous awards and fellowships. He was awarded a UK Ministry of Technology Scholarship for his Ph.D. at Warwick University and from British Petroleum for his BSc Honors in electronic and communication engineering (Cardiff University).

Erick Iriarte Ahon, Alfa-Redi (Peru)

Erick Iriarte Ahon began his involvement in the domain name space as a lawyer managing the .PE country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Currently, he is executive director of Alfa - Redi, a scientific community focused on information society policies and regulatory framework and an organization of Latin American civil society.

As part of his work in the domain name space, Iriarte Ahon is in charge of the LatinoamerICANN project, which is dedicated to information and analysis diffusion and proposals on issues such as domain names, IP numbers, and Internet governance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

He has worked as coordinator of the ICANN Membership Implementation Task Force. Since 2003, Iriarte Ahon also has been a member of the Non-Commercial User Constituency, and he is a member of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee, serving as vice-chair and representing Latin America and the Caribbean.

In October 2004, Erick coordinated a meeting on Internet governance in Latin America, as a commission of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force. There, he was a leader and instructor of the Track "Internet and Society" in WALC 2004.

As an activist, he is involved in issues including Internet governance and information society policy in Latin America and the Caribbean; regulation of the information society in the World Summit on the Information Society frame; and the background of national domain name policies in various Latin American countries.

Dave Kissoondoyal, Teleforma Mauritius, Ltd

Dave Kissoondoyal is an associate of the Chartered Management Institute of the United Kingdom. Although he is employed as the information technology director at Teleforma Mauritius Ltd (a U.S. offshore company in Mauritius), Kissoondoyal is very much involved with the affairs of the Internet Society Chapter of Mauritius. In fact, he is the founder, president and chairman of the Internet Society of Mauritius. His primary objective as president is to promote the Internet. Under his chairmanship, the Internet Society Chapter of Mauritius was nominated as one of the three finalists in 2002 and 2004 for the e-Achievers Award on the African continent. This award goes to an African institution or company that promotes e-enablement within Africa.

Kissoondoyal has always been involved in noncommercial and volunteer activities. He is a member of Save the Children Mauritius and has held the positions of secretary, treasurer and president (CEO). He also was nominated for his work in a noncommercial environment as one of the three finalists for Most Outstanding Young Person of the year in 1996 and in 2003 for the Republic of Mauritius (by the Jeune Chambre Economique de L’ile Maurice, an affiliate of Junior Chamber International). Kissoondoyal has been one of the ambassadors of the Internet Society for the World Summit on the Information Society.

Khaled Koubaa, ICT Independent Consultant (Tunisia)

Khaled Koubaa is an ICT independent consultant working for the nonprofit sector in Tunisia and Arab and African region: Arab Institute for Human Rights, Tunisian Nutrition Specialist Organization, ENDA Inter Arab, Tunisian Accountants Society and FAMEX (export facilitation program). He provides training and one-on-one coaching for organizations and corporate executives on how to choose and implement new information systems and strategies. He was involved with many ICT pioneer projects in Tunisia.

Koubaa entered the Internet landscape in 1997. He has been involved with Internet Society since 2005, and he participates actively within the WSIS. He founded the Internet Society chapter in Tunisia and serves as president. He is assisting in the creation of the Arab Internet Societies. He is regularly at the ICANN meeting as the Tunisian At-Large Structure and many other events related to the Internet.

Koubaa earned his bachelor's degree in management from High School of Commerce, Tunisia. He obtained a master's degree in electronic commerce from the High School of Electronic Commerce, and he completed an Internet Governance Capacity Building Program with Diplo Foundation.

Nadia McLaren, Union of International Associations (UK/Australia)

Nadia McLaren is an ecologist concerned with how natural, social and knowledge systems interact. One of the first Australian graduates in environmental studies, in 1980 she co-founded the consulting company Social and Ecological Assessment Pty Ltd (SEA), which she directed for nine years.

Currently based in Brussels, McLaren sits on the boards of Global Action Plan International (GAP), a nongovernmental organization that fosters sustainable lifestyles; European Partners for the Environment (EPE); and the steering group of Renaissance Europe, a new network of change agents accelerating the transition of Europe into an ecologically sustainable society.

McLaren is an innovative editor of hypertext and semantic networks. Working with the Union of International Associations (UIA) for more than a decade, she manages the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, databases containing thousands of problems and strategies of concern to the international nonprofit organizations profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations: Guide to Civil Society Networks. She coordinates projects and analyses of international organizations, as well as acting as coordinating liaison to their leaders and their meetings for the UIA and the London School of Economics Centre for Civil Society's Global Civil Society Yearbook .

From 1996 to 2000, McLaren developed EcoLynx, an online multimedia resource package for biodiversity conservation, and Interactive Health Ecology Access Links (IHEAL), which provides public access to environmental and health data. In 2002, she was a member of the Diversitas team, which bid for the nonprofit management of the .ORG Internet domain. Her most recent activities are in the fields of networked knowledge sharing, intersectoral dialogue and accelerated learning technologies.

Sebastian Ricciardi, Jáuregui & Associates (Argentina)

Sebastian Ricciardi holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Buenos Aires University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Universidad del CEMA. He has almost 10 years working in the consumer industry, covering different sales and marketing positions.

In 1999, he founded a technology company, working in wireless applications and marketing of new services. He is currently affiliated with Jauregui & Associates, a specialized law firm based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ricciardi is a member of the Internet Society Argentinean chapter. Recently, he was selected to participate in the WSIS Ambassador program, working with ISOC chapter members from around the world in the prepcom and the Tunis phase of WSIS.

Ricciardi has been working with ICANN´s At-Large Advisory Committee since 2002, when he was appointed by the ICANN board. His responsibilities over the past years have included outreach activities among the Latin America communities and policy work. The ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee appointed him to the WIPO2 Assistance Group and the Transfers Assistance Group.

Oscar Robles-Garay, NIC Mexico .MX (Mexico)

Oscar Robles-Garay is general director for NIC México, the organization that manages the administration of the .MX country code top-level domain (ccTLD) and IP space allocation for Mexican Internet service providers. He is one of the founders of the Latin American and Caribbean Country Code Top-Level Domains and is president of the board. In addition, since 2003, Robles-Garay has been on the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry board of directors. In 2005, he was appointed to the PIR Advisory Council.

He has participated in diverse forums in Mexico and Latin America on topics such as Internet governance, domain names and intellectual property, and Internet growth in Mexico and Latin America.

Robles-Garay holds a degree in computer systems engineering and has a master's degree in information technologies management from the Monterrey Institute of Technology. He co-teaches a course on the e-commerce legal framework at the Virtual University of the Monterrey Technology.

Jaechul Sir, KRNIC (Korea)

Jaechul Sir is currently the executive director of NIDA, a nonprofit statutory organization, and is in charge of Korea Network Information Center (KRNIC). At KRNIC he is repsonsible for the policy development and technical management of the .kr ccTLD and IP address. In addition, Sir works on the development of domain name related technologies such as DNSSEC and IPSEC. He also has an active role in drafting the Internet Resource Administration Act for the .kr ccTLD.

In addition, Sir has actively participated in Joint Engineering Team (JET), which was established to develop and implement IDN technology. Sir, along with other JET members, recently sent a joint letter to Microsoft urging them to implement IDN standards in Microsoft products to ensure a more convenient use of the Internet for the Internet users in Asia. Moreover, Sir has been contributing to the creation of .ASIA sTLD as a board member of the DotAsia organization.

Angela Stuber, Grassroots.org (USA - Ohio)

Angela Stuber recently became the executive director of Grassroots.org, a national nonprofit dedicated to initiating social change by providing free services to nonprofit organizations. Grassroots.org provides nonprofits with access to online applications, Web site hosting, domain registration, legal incorporation assistance and business best practices to help them achieve their goals effectively and efficiently. Grassroots also utilizes more than 50 high-profile domain names to encourage individual social action.

Stuber served as executive director of the Ohio Community Computing Network (OCCN) for six years. OCCN is a member-driven organization supporting community technology to promote full participation in a digital world. OCCN is committed to ensuring that every Ohioan can make full use of modern computing and networking technology for personal and community empowerment and enrichment. OCCN has distributed more than $5 million to community technology programs in Ohio. The organization grew in size, reach and influence under Stuber’s guidance. Stuber’s dedication and vision have helped OCCN gain local and national media attention for its advocacy and programming successes.

Stuber began her work in the field of community technology as a graduate student at the University of Toledo. While there she worked as the project coordinator for CATNeT, Ohio’s first citywide network of community technology centers.

Stuber has received a number of honors for her visionary work in the field of community technology. In 2004, the John Glenn Institute named her one of its first Social Capital Scholars. In 2005, Stuber received the inaugural Midwest Community Networking Award. In 2006, she provided testimony to the U.S. Senate regarding the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Stuber has served on numerous voluntary boards. She is currently the board president for CTCNet, a national network of community technology centers. She also serves on the Advisory Council for the Public Interest Registry for the .org domain.

On the personal side, Stuber has two children. She is a Black Belt in TaeKwonDo and a Yellow Belt in Krav Maga.

Frannie Wellings, Free Press (USA - DC)

Frannie Wellings is the manager of government relations at the non-profit organization Free Press, which works to monitor and analyze communications policymaking and to increase public understanding and participation in communications issues. Wellings coordinates legislative affairs, issue briefings and other Washington, DC, public education activities for Free Press. She works closely with the policy director to represent Free Press in media reform and other public interest coalitions in Washington.

Wellings is the North American representative to the executive committee of ICANN’s Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and holds a voting seat on the 2006 ICANN Nominating Committee. Prior to joining Free Press, she served as policy fellow for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and directed the Public Voice Project.

Wellings graduated summa cum laude from the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University and obtained a Master of Arts degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bill Woodcock, Packet Clearing House (USA - CA)

Bill Woodcock is the research director of Packet Clearing House (PCH), a nonprofit research institute dedicated to understanding and supporting Internet traffic exchange technology, policy and economics. Woodcock entered the field of Internet routing research in 1989, while serving as the network architect and operations director for an international multiprotocol service-provision backbone network. In 1993 and 1994, he was one of the founders of PCH, and he has served in his current post since 1997. In that time, Woodcock has directly participated in the establishment of more than three dozen public Internet exchange points in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. He continues to serve on the boards of, and provide ongoing technical and policy advice to, many of these institutions. He was the principal lobbyist on the white-hat side of the successful passage of California's model anti-spam legislation in 1998 and has successfully concluded telecommunications regulatory reform efforts in several African countries.

Woodcock's published work includes many PCH white papers; the book Networking the Macintosh (McGraw-Hill); the report of the ANF AppleTalk Tunneling Architectures Working Group, which he chaired in 1993 and 1994; and articles in Network World, MacWorld, MacWEEK, Connections , and other networking journals and periodicals. In addition, he was the principal author of the Multicast DNS, IP Anycast and Operator Requirements of Infrastructure Management Methods Internet Engineering Task Force drafts. In the early 1990s, he pioneered IGP- and EGP-based topological load balancing techniques using IP Anycast technology. This research, proposed with Mark Kosters at the 1996 Montreal IEPG, provided the basis on which root Domain Name System servers have been deployed since the late 1990s. In addition to protocol development work, Woodcock has developed networking products for Cisco, Agilent and Farallon. He has director roles in four companies in the areas of satellite communications, content distribution and domain name service technology.

Woodcock also has served on the board of trustees of ARIN since 2002 and on the board of the ISP/Consortium in 1998 and 1999. He is a current or former PCH representative to AfriNIC, APIA, APNIC, ARIN, CAIDA, IEPG, ISOC, the ISP/C, LACNIC, NATOA and RIPE, and he speaks regularly at AfNOG, APIA, APNIC, APRICOT, ARIN, ISOC/INET, NordNOG, RIPE, IEPG, IETF, ISMA, SANOG and NANOG meetings. He serves on the program committees of NANOG, SANOG, PAM and APRICOT.

John Zoltner, Consultant (Chile)

John Zoltner is a Santiago, Chile, based consultant working with public, nongovernmental and private entities to design strategies, projects and methodologies that take advantage of the power of information and communication technologies to empower individuals, organizations and communities. Zoltner is currently working as an adviser for Peñalolén, a politically important municipality of Santiago, Chile, embarking on an ambitious project to transform the relationship between government and citizens by combining the democratizing power of ICTs with a thorough re-engineering of government services. Zoltner also raises funds for and manages innovative development projects involving ICTs on the national and regional levels in the Americas.

Prior to his Santiago-based work, John served as the founding chair of the steering committee for the Telecenters of the Americas Partnership (TAP), the largest network of telecenters in the world, and as director of strategy and development for the Community Technology Centers’ Network, a national network of more than 1,000 telecenters across the United States (CTCNet). At CTCNet, Zoltner developed organizational strategy and secured resources to ensure that the organization would reach its full potential to serve its members. John joined CTCNet after serving as the director of strategic alliances and communications for Technology Works for Good (TWFG -- now NPower of the Greater DC Region), a technology service provider for nonprofit organizations. Prior to his work at TWFG, John held a variety of senior nonprofit management positions. Among them was community technology manager for the Community Preservation and Development Corporation’s model “Electronic Village” project at the Edgewood Terrace affordable housing complex.

John holds both a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree and a Bachelor of Arts in English literature with a minor in philosophy from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he taught Innovative Information and Communications Technology Strategies as an adjunct faculty member for the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership.