Dear Adam, Al and others,
It's my pleasure for me to endorse this nomination.
We all know that Izumi Aizu is one of passionate persons who speak for
netizen in most internet related issues. As for me, he seems to be very
coherently trying to establish more autonomous and more participatory
cyberspace. I believe he could play an appropriate role as civil society
member and Asian netizen.
We, PeaceNet Korea, support his nomination.
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Adam Peake wrote:
> At 4:38 PM +0800 5/9/06, Al Alegre wrote:
> >Dear Adam and all
> >
> >Firstly, thanks to Adam for posting this, which I was planning on doing except
> >that more urgent business intervened (sigh).
> >
> >Secondly, I endorse the nomination of Izumi Aizu...and similar to the IGF
> >nomination of Chun, I think all those who agree should just submit
> >our names and
> >orgs to the main nominator (Glocom?), as the time for
> >consensus-building is too
> >short (as usual).
>
>
> Al, thanks.
>
> Could people who'd like to endorse Izumi's nomination send me a note
> -- let me know if your support as an individual or for your
> organization.
>
> Would be nice if the list could quickly show support, Izumi's done a
> lot for us over the past few years.
>
> I've copied the note about Izumi I sent to the secretariat below.
> This and other nomination statements are up on the UNICT Task Force
> website. See <http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/showdoc.pl?id=1589>
> See a few more friends' names listed there.
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> Nomination of Izumi Aizu for Global Alliance Strategy Council
>
> Izumi Aizu is well known as one of the Asia Pacific's Internet
> pioneers. He has been helping people understand and use the Internet
> in the region since the early 1990s.
>
> Aizu helped establish two well known Japanese research institutes:
> the Institute for Hypernetwork Society, which promotes local and
> regional development through the use of ICTs; and GLOCOM, an academic
> research institute studying information and network society.
>
> Through his work with GLOCOM he was a member of the G8 Dot Force,
> organized civil society participation on the WSIS Asia Pacific Region
> meeting in January 2003, and the WSIS thematic meeting "Tokyo
> Ubiquitous Network Conference". He was an active contributor in WSIS
> preparatory conferences and the Geneva and Tunis Summits.
>
> In the late 1990s he was Secretary General of the Asia Pacific
> Internet Association, and led regional Y2K preparedness activities.
> He was part of an international team that organized a number of
> meetings around the world that led to the formation of ICANN, and is
> now a member of ICANN's At Large Advisory Committee, which helps
> individuals contribute to and participate in ICANN.
>
> In addition to his work on ICT policy activities, he has collaborated
> with the UNDP's Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme
> (APDIP) and IDRC's PAN Asia Networking on ICT for development
> activities.
>
> Izumi Aizu is currently affiliated with the Institute for
> Hypernetwork Society, Kumon Center, University of Tama, and Asia
> Network Research.
>
> Nationality: Japanese. Residence: Tokyo, Japan. Languages: Japanese
> (native tongue), English (fluent).
>
>
>
>
>
> >Thirdly, I would just like to report that our global association APC will be
> >submitting nominations form various regions, and here are some of
> >the additional
> >names that have come up from Asia (most of them part of the caucus and are on
> >this list), just for everyone's information:
> >
> >- Chat Garcia Ramilo (Philippines), global coordinator of APC
> >Women's Networking
> >and Support Program
> >- Mavic Cabrera Balleza (Philippines), currently with the Intl Womens Tribune
> >Center, formerly of Isis Intl-Manila
> >- Partha Sarker (BDesh) or Shahzad Ahmad (Pakistan) or Fred Noronha
> >(India) from
> >APC member Bytes for All
> >- Onno Purbo (Indonesia), ICT/wireless practitioner/consultant
> >
> >I also am putting in the name of
> >Dr. Emmanuel Lallana, of our Commission on ICT as a government rep
> >
> >others who I do not know personally but who have also been mentioned
> >in the APC
> >process:
> >- Ramesh Singh (Nepal), international directof of Action Aid International.
> >- Radhika Lal (india), UNDP
> >
> >I am afraid I will be offline most of the week to finish a long
> >overdue report,
> >so apologies if I cannot do much more...
> >
> >best
> >Al
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
> >To: <communication@wsisasia.org>
> >Cc: <chat@apcwomen.org>; <mavic@isiswomen.org>; <robsagun@consultant.com>;
> ><iza@anr.org>
> >Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:51 PM
> >Subject: [communication 1704] Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: Global Alliance -
> >nominations
> >
> >
> >> Another nomination process, this time for the
> >> Global Alliance (see
> >> <http://www.unicttaskforce.org>)
> >>
> >> Two emails below explain everything. But, in
> >> summary, a multi-stakeholder Strategy Council is
> >> being created to help guide the new Global
> >> Alliance. The Strategy Council will have about 50
> >> members from all stakeholders: perhaps 15 or so
> >> members from civil society (15? I don't know, a
> >> guess!)
> >>
> >> Self nominations are encouraged, and individuals
> >> or groups can recommend people.
> >>
> >> Through the WSIS plenary, some civil society
> >> organizations will begin a nomination process
> >> similar to the one run for the IGF advisory group.
> >>
> >> Time is very short -- self nominations should be
> >> sent to the Alliance secretariat at
> >> <gaid-nominate@unicttaskforce.org> by May 10.
> >> Details on the UNICT Task Force website.
> >>
> >> There is more time (but not much more) for the CS process, see email below.
> >>
> >> Sarbuland Khan, UN DESA, is leading the
> >> nomination process. He particularly asked that
> >> civil society find representatives of Youth and
> >> Gender groups. I know the Youth caucus has begun
> >> its own nomination process. I think it would be
> >> helpful if the Asian Family endorsed any person
> >> from our region that the Youth caucus' nomination
> >> process selected. I don't know what the Gender
> >> groups are doing, but again, I think we should
> >> support anyone the region's Gender groups select.
> >>
> >> And I have an individual suggestion and request
> >> -- I intend to encourage Izumi Aizu to put his
> >> name forward and I hope this list will endorse
> >> Izumi's nomination. I think Izumi would be an
> >> ideal member of a group like the strategy
> >> council. He did a great job involving civil
> >> society in some of the regional WSIS processes,
> >> listens and provides feedback, and has experience
> >> working in similar global processes.
> >>
> >> I hope other people will show interest in joining
> >> the Strategy Council, but also hope the
> >> list/caucus will support Izumi.
> >>
> >> Disclosure: Izumi no longer works at GLOCOM, he
> >> is leading work at another non-profit institute
> >> in Japan. We work on a couple of projects
> >> together but not as GLOCOM colleagues.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
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