Statement of Interest
Wendy Seltzer - Non-Commercial Users Constituency Councilor
I am an individual member of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency, elected by the NCUC to the GNSO Council.
I am a lawyer and law professor, currently a Fellow with the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado Law School and with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. I created and lead the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, a website that catalogs threats to free expression online and helps individuals to understand their rights in response. My legal scholarship focuses on intellectual property, technology, free expression, and innovation.
I serve on of the boards of two nonprofits, The Tor Project, Inc., promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology; and the World Wide Web Foundation, U.S., dedicated to advancing the web and empowering people by improving Web science, standards, and generative accessibility of Web technology. I do not represent any of these organizations other than NCUC in ICANN.
I am also an individual member of the North American Regional At-Large Organization. I will complete my term as At-Large Liaison to the Board at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Seoul.
Except as registrant of several domain names, I have no financial interest in ICANN policies.