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Osten Franberg

Address: Stockholm, Sweden

Present positions:

1. Corporate Director, Ericsson Headquarter, Corporate technology, Sweden
2. President ISOC-SE, the Swedish ISOC chapter
3. Officer of the ISOC advisory council that give advises to the ISOC board
4. Chairman of the Board of the IIS foundation responsible for the .se ccTLD top level domain
5. Board member of Netnode, responsible for Internet cross points in Sweden

Activities performed
Present-2000
Ericsson, Direct the Mobile e.commerce business plan and technology
through the Ericsson group.
Develop the MeT (mobile electronic transactions) initiative together with Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola etc as standard in the mobile world. Participate in MOBeY-forum a consortia with major leading online banks such as Bank of America, Merita-Nordbanken etc. Arrange the Smart card metering Stockholm
2001 for Studie group 5 European union ISOC, Work as co-conference chair for the INET2001-confernese in Stockholm, Serve as President of ISOC-ECC the European coordination organization of 25 European ISOC chapters through the Kingdom of Sweden European Union chairmanship first half year 2001. Serve as Vice president ISOC-ECC in the Presidency for two terms. Participate in all Advisory council and ISOCBoT-meetings, Holding the year rotating chairmanship of the Advisory council IIS foundation, Run the IIS board with industry, Internet, user groups, and officials through 8 meetings a year, with 100.000 customer base developing the organization and business to a health economy and dominance at the Swedish market. Acting as Host for the ICANN
meeting in Stockholm with responsibilities for arrangements, press coverage VIP-program venue etc Netnode, Board representation and building the cross point infrastructure in Sweden and the DNS service

1995-2000
Ericsson, Building the new ip network structures for Ericsson internal networks serving 100.000 users.
Managing Unix transition to SUN Solaris from BSD. Managing tools networks for software and hardware design at Ericsson Development Company.
Director Corporate technology 1997, with focus on IETF and Internet questions.
ISOC founder of ISOC-SE The Swedish Chapter of ISOC in 1997, President of ISOC-SE since 1997 with people, Elected as officer to the Advisory Council in 1999. Founder of the IIS foundation in 1997. Assumed responsibility for the .se TLD from Björn Eriksen and from IANA. Building up the organization and established the business, board, company, and control structures. Chairman of the IIS board since 1997. President of SNUS Swedish Network Users Society, Running yearly Interoperability conferences, tests and Exhibitions in Sweden in cooperation with Softbank and Interop USA

1990-1995
Ericsson development company, IT-manager of 1200 engineers It-support, tools IP-network services.
Running large UNIX and PC/MAC based operation, with large data storage and strong security environment. Introducing the companies WWW- structure and services
Cofounder of SNUS Swedish Network Users Society in 1991, Running yearly since 1991 Interoperability conferences, tests and Executions in Sweden in cooperation with Interop USA
Participate in the agreement of the first commercial Internet ISP in Sweden Swipnet

1980-1990
Ericsson Information system IT-manager
Project leader for Industrialization of AXE telephone exchange,
Working on Industrialization questions for Ericsson organizations in Mexico, Brazil and Spain
IT-strategy manager for NOKIA data in Sweden 1988-1990


1977-1980
Ericsson, Project leader for Electronic telephone exchange, Digital subscriber subsystem
Software engineer Telephone exchange system

Address

Ericsson Corporate Technology, 125 26 Stockholm, Sweden

Social status

Married, with three adult children

Last education

PhD studies at Boston University 1977, Math department, computer science major on artificial intelligence, (PhD degree not completed)