Advisory Group

Tasks

GIPO's Advisory Group (AG) works independently from the services of the European Commission and the contractor. Its main tasks are to:

Provide guidance on all aspects of the evolution of GIPO, including - but not limited to - new technological solutions for the tool.
Publicise GIPO through their own institutions and networks.
Ensure that GIPO remains abreast of topics and that the challenge of 'selectivity' or 'bias' in source selection is minimised.
Contribute to the steering of GIPO's development, for instance by highlighting content for the tool's homepage.

The mandate of the AG is flexible, and based upon the tasks described above. Each AG member will provide input based on their area of expertise. The AG can act upon consultation by the services of the European Commission or the contractor, or issue its own non-binding advice without a prior request.

Meet our members

Analía Aspis

Organisation:

Law and Social Science Research Institute, University of Buenos Aires

Professional title:

Researcher-Lawyer

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Analía Aspis is a researcher at the Law and Social Science Research Institute Ambrosio Gioia (Faculty of Law - University of Buenos Aires) for the Argentinian Ministry of Science and Technology to develop research on Internet Governance. She has a Master on IT law (University of Lausanne) and started her PhD on the Internet of Things at the Swedish Center for Law and Technology (University of Stockholm) to later continue it at the University of Buenos Aires. In this capacity she is a professor and a coordinator of different groups related to Internet Governance. She has given training and conferences as professor of IT law and politics at the University of Stockholm, the Catholic University of Peru, the University of Buenos Aires and the University Politécnico Gran Colombiano. Currently she trains lawyers, sociologists, political scientists in IG issues, diplomacy and law. Furthermore, Analía is an independent lawyer and consultant specialized in IT law and privacy law.
Analía is involved in many advocacy activities. To mention a few, she have been member (twice) of the Member of the Stakeholder Selection Committee to choose potential speakers from non-governmental organizations for the High-level Meeting on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS +10). She is the co-coordinator of the Internet Governance Caucus, member of the Freedom Online Coalition WG 1, where she has been working closely with a multistakeholder group focusing efforts in enhancing human rights protection within online activities. She is founder of the Argentinean Hub of Internet Governance, a group seeking to promote discussion and information on IG issues from a Latin-American point of view and the Argentinean Legal Hackers chapter, a group that combines both technical and legal expertise to seek solutions for Internet’s current challenges. In this sense, she strongly promotes online training and international conference remote participation through different channels she has created.
Finally, Analía is member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network, and the ITU working group on Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight Data Monitoring.

Farzaneh Badii

Organisation:

Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg

Professional title:

Doctoral Candidate

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Farzaneh Badii is an expert in online international arbitration forums and has extensive experience in Internet governance and policy. She is an active member of ICANN as a member the Non-Commercial Users Constituency Executive Committee, a co-founder of the Dynamic Coalition on Accountability at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, and has worked extensively in outreach and engagement in her home country of Iran and also within the greater MENA region. Farzaneh is currently finishing a PhD at the University of Hamburg’s Institute of Law and Economics that examines the institutional design of dispute management in online intermediaries with a scholarship of the German Research Foundation. She is also a fellow at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Farzaneh was a visiting scholar at Syracuse University’s iSchool and conducted research at the University of St. Gallen’s Law School. Between 2011 and 2013, she was a Consultant at the United Nations’ Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum in Geneva. Farzaneh holds a LLM in International Commercial Law from Kingston University and speaks Farsi, English and intermediate French.

Andrea Calderaro

Organisation:

Centre for Internet and Global Politics, Cardiff University

Professional title:

Director and Lecturer in International Relations

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Andrea Calderaro is Director of the Centre for Internet and Global Politics and Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University. His work centres on Internet and International Affairs, with a focus on Internet Governance. His contribution to GIPO benefits in particular from his expertise on the role of the EU in the global Internet Governance debate, digital rights and freedoms, and internet governance capacity building. He serves as Editor of the “Digital Technologies and Global Politics” Book Series at Rowman&Littlefield, as a member of the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council board at the OECD, and a member of the NCUC at ICANN. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Internet & Human Rights (CIHR) at European University Viadrina, and affiliated to the Internet Policy Observatory at the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication / Penn. Prior to joining Cardiff University, he was Lecturer at the University La Sapienza of Rome, Research Associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom/European University Institute, Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, and directed the “ICTs for the Global Governance of Peace and Security” Project at the University of Oslo. He holds his PhD from the European University Institute.

Rafik Dammak

Organisation:

ICANN Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC)

Professional title:

Engineer

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Rafik is an engineer working and living in Japan, after having conducted postgraduate studies in the University of Tokyo. He has been involved within civil society on Internet Governance issues since 2007, attending several IGFs and other internet-related conferences either as speaker or workshop organizer. He is currently member of the Steering Committee for the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles and the Freedom Online Coalition "Internet Free and Secure" Working Group. He is chair of the ICANN’s NCUC (Non-Commercial Users Constituency), was former chair and former GNSO Councillor for the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group, and participates in the New gTLD Applicant Support and Cross-Community Working Group on Internet Governance (where he was the co-chair and facilitator). He is working on improving awareness about Internet Governance in Tunisia and MENA in general, and helping the IGMENA capacity building program supported by HIVOS.

Daniel Dardailler

Organisation:

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Professional title:

Director of International Relations

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Daniel Dardailler is Director of International Relations at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He is regularly involved in discussions and decisions with regard to W3C stakes in Internet Governance (with ICANN, ISOC, IETF, NMI, ISO, OECD, the European Commission, ETSI, and more). W3C is a long time architect and advocate of Web open standards used for free by all. W3C also has a strong experience in multi-stakeholder dialogue, as its work is mostly done in public (with the software industry, open source developers, end-users, vertical sectors, governments and more) and is always reviewed by the public by design. Open standards and the processes used to create them, are core to the success of the Internet and the Web, all Internet Governance fora (but not all governments) have understood and agreed to that fact. Part of W3C’s role in GIPO is to ensure good principles of open standardization process (e.g. OpenStand) are always in the heart of participants, as a goal of how the Internet should continue to evolve, but also as an instrument for GIPO's own work, in particular in terms of transparency, and in coordination with other peer initiatives working towards similar goals. The main goal for Daniel is clarifying the issues that we are facing with governing the Internet, and what each stakeholder can do to help. Hence the need for creating an open dataset for the issues, not just a tool exploiting private data. The following 2005 pre-Internet Governance Forum (IGF) paper summarizes W3C’s generic position on Internet Governance, which hasn't changed much since: http://www.w3.org/2005/04/dd-wsig.html.

Lasantha De Alwis

Organisation:

Commonwealth Telecoms Organisation (CTO)

Professional title:

Director/Head of Operations Department

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Lasantha De Alwis is the Director/Head of Operations Department of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), the London-based Commonwealth agency mandated in the field of ICTs. As the Head of Operations, Lasantha is in charge of the operational services of the CTO including, capacity building, research and international events, which are aimed at assisting Commonwealth countries leverage ICTs for socio-economic development. Lasantha’s engagement with the field of cybersecurity dates back to 2007 when he became a member of the High Level Experts Group of the Global Cybersecurity Agenda of the International Telecommunications Union. Since then, he has been leading the CTO’s Cybersecurity programme, which has produced among others, the Commonwealth Cybergovernance Model and the Commonwealth approach to developing National Cybersecurity Strategies, details of which are available at http://www.cto.int/priority-areas/cybersecurity/. GIPO’s success and relevance depends on the degree to which it addresses the priorities of the global community and the scale of engagement with the non-European actors. Lasantha aims to assist GIPO by providing guidance on the priorities of global stakeholders and by facilitating its outreach activities. As CTO member countries are spread around the world and across the developmental spectrum, their priorities are a useful indicator to understand the needs of the wider global community. CTO’s operational activities including international events, capacity building programmes and projects, offer a range of channels for GIPO’s outreach.

Avri Doria

Organisation:

multiple affiliations

Professional title:

Principal Researcher, Technicalities

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Avri Doria is an itinerant research consultant. She is a member of the ICANN GNSO council as a representative of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) and was previously chair of the GNSO Council. She was a member of the UN Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC) and a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). She spent 5 years as a member the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Secretariat and is a member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF MAG). Her other activities include serving part-time as a research associate for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and as VP, Policy and Governance, for dotgay LLC working with the LGBTQI community. As a technologist she has been involved in the development of Internet protocols and architectures for over 30 years, is a participant in the IETF, and a past chair of the IRTF Routing Research Group. She is the author of multiple RFCs and occasionally teaches on Internet governance subjects. Avri was awarded the ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos award in 2014. Avri brings extensive policy and technical expertise in Internet Governance to GIPO’s Advisory Group.

William Drake

Organisation:

Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ, University of Zurich

Professional title:

International Fellow and Lecturer

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William Drake is an International Fellow and Lecturer in the Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich. Within ICANN, he has served in elected positions as Chair of Noncommercial Users Constituency (2013-present), the GNSO Council (2009-2012), and the Board of Directors of the European At Large Organization (2007-present). Bill is also a member of the Coordination Council of the NETmundial Initiative, an advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Future of the Internet Initiative, and a core faculty member of the European and South Schools on Internet Governance. Previously he has been, inter alia, President, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility; Senior Associate and Director, Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; founding Associate Director, Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University; and Assistant Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego. In addition, Bill has been co-editor of the MIT Press book series, The Information Revolution and Global Politics; a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum, the UN Working Group on Internet Governance, the Group of High-Level Advisors of UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development, and the founding Steering Committee of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network; and an advisor to the high-level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance, and to the World Economic Forum Task Force on the Global Digital Divide.

Ephraim Percy Kenyanito

Organisation:

AccessNow.Org

Professional title:

Sub-Saharan Africa Policy Analyst

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Ephraim Percy Kenyanito is the Sub-Saharan Africa at AccessNow.Org working on the connection between internet policy and human rights in African Union member countries and is also an affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (at the Center for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania). He is a member of the UN Secretary General's Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group on Internet Governance; the Freedom Online Coalition’s Digital Development and Openness Working Group; the Index on Censorship Youth Advisory Board; the Advisory Group for Code Red (a global initiative to accelerate reform of security organisations); and the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the UN IGF). Previously, Ephraim has worked on democratic governance, transparency and international development with a diverse range of organizations (including Transparency International, MercyCorps, Centre for Law and Research International, the East African Community Secretariat, and the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Trade among others; including two ICANN working groups). He holds a Bachelor of Laws- LL.B (Hons) and has training in Internet policy and media law from the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania. His LL.B thesis examined the relationship between domain names and geographical indications with a special focus on .wine and .vin applications.

Amanda Lawrence

Organisation:

Grey Literature Strategies Project and Policy Online, Swinburne University of Technology

Professional title:

Research Manager

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Amanda Lawrence is Research and Strategy Manager for the ARC Linkage project Grey Literature Strategies, and for Australian Policy Online where she has been Managing Editor since 2006. Amanda completed a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information management at RMIT University in 2010, has an Arts Degree with Honours from the University of Melbourne. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. in Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology looking at the production, use and collection of organisation publications and other resources (grey literature) as a source of information for public policy and practice. Amanda has also worked in various roles in the book and cultural sector. Amanda contributes to GIPO through her experience in the development of interoperable databases and the use of taxonomies in multiple policy areas.

Virginia (Ginger) Paque

Organisation:

DiploFoundation

Professional title:

Director of Internet Governance Programmes

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Virginia (Ginger) Paque was born in the United States, but lived in Venezuela for more than 35 years. An educator and administrator by profession, she has 25 years’ experience in business and manufacturing systems consulting. As a board member of the United Nations Association of Venezuela, her work as the Venezuelan member of the World Federation of United Nations Associations Task Force on WSIS brought her into the world of Internet Governance (IG) during the Geneva PrepComs. Ginger is active in Civil Society discussions on IG, and served as IG Caucus co-coordinator for two years. As Director of IG Programmes for DiploFoundation she has enjoyed the opportunity to extend online capacity building programmes to developing countries in different languages. The research and implementation of e-participation and online inclusion possibilities for global policy processes is another important priority area, with concrete applications in remote participation for global IG meetings such as the IGF. In 2013 she completed her Master in Contemporary Diplomacy with a thesis on the importance of IG as a new diplomatic priority. She is a member of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) and coordinator of the MAG Remote Participation Working Group.

Membership

The AG consists of twelve members, working in a personal capacity. The European Commission (EC) invited eight members. The remainder was nominated through an open process. No legally binding commitment is required from AG members vis-à-vis their tasks in the AG (i.e. no contract was signed). However, we request a commitment to engage in the process for at least one year. Renewal of AG membership is possible.