[council] Re: Updated Statement of Interest - GNSO

["Sophia B" <sophiabekele@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry,

I made minor changes to 2nd para re. 'global African community'.
s


On 07/10/2007, Sophia B <sophiabekele@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Sophia Bekele - Nominating Committee appointee to the GNSO Council
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> I represent a California based, privately held company, CBS Enterprise
> Group, which is engaged in international business. As part of its portfolio
> of services, the company provides systems integration services through CBS
> International, which delivers domain registration, web hosting and email
> services to end users via a reseller, agreement with registrars. Less than
> 10% of CBS's business is derived from these services.
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> ICANN is a critical organization for the proper governance of the Internet
> and its stability and security.  Given current growing environment of the
> Internet, there are many challenges ahead for ICANN.   I am most
> interested in issues of emerging economies and the use of ICT and the growth
> of Internet or lack thereof over these environments.  Therefore, the
> policies developed by ICANN over issues governing the global
> Internet particularly domain names could determine the gap in the digital
> divide within these economies.  As such, I am actively involved in the
> policy development process of the International Domain Names (IDNs) and
> generic Top Level Domain names (gTLDs) that are of concern.  I have also
> initiated and pursuing the efforts for a successful launch of the  '.Africa'
> continental domain name project within ICANN and the
> global African community.  Towards this end, I will be continuing
> my interest in these areas.
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> In my personal capacity, I do not have any of my moneys, invested in
> companies that are in the registrar businesses. I do not believe that any
> activities of the Council or ICANN could have a material effect on the work
> I do at CBS International.
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