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Board of Trustees2004 Board ElectionCandidatesDesiree Miloshevic, Organisational MemberDear Organisational Members of ISOC, As a candidate to the ISOC's Board of Trustee (BoT), I wish to ask for your support for my election. Having spent the eleven years working in the Internet industry and learning about its infrastructure, founding principles and organisations, its educational, commercial and regulatory nature, especially in the DNS area, and having advised many international organisations on various aspects of Internet policy, technology and business, I have gained valuable insight into the processes and developments that support stable growth of the Internet, which I now wish to offer for use in public service. I seek a position on the ISOC's Board of Trustees for several reasons: In these critical times, when governments, private sector, civil society, professional, trade, and other international organisations are trying to design a road map for the future Information Society, ISOC, being also the home of the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Internet Architecture Board, has a crucial role to play over the next years in:
Please read further to find additional information about me. I will be delighted
to answer any questions that you may have. I look forward to speaking with as many of you as possible before the vote for this important position. In the spirit of public duty, I wish to seek election to the ISOC Board and I ask for your vote and your support,
Candidate Profile: Desiree Zeljka Miloshevic is a well-known and respected international voice in Internet governance and policy and is presently International Affairs and Policy Development Advisor at Afilias, a global leader in domain name services. Afilias is the registry for .INFO and several country code Top-Level-Domains (ccTLDs) and provides the technical services to the Public Interest Registry for, .ORG As policy advisor at Afilias, she has been instrumental in the redelegation of .ORG, the growth of .INFO, and the expansion of Afilias' support of the ccTLD community as well as several ccTLD domains. She represents the .GI domain in European Internet organisations such as CENTR and RIPE. Her current projects include promoting its Internationalized Domain Name initiatives and evaluating ENUM. She represents Afilias at many conferences including CENTR, RIPE, IETF, INET, Internet Week Japan, O'Reilly Emerging Technology and ICANN. Before joining Afilias in 2000, Ms Miloshevic worked as a consultant specialising in top-level domains, including advising on .MUSEUM and .PRO. Her Internet involvement dates back to 1993 when she joined Demon, the United Kingdom's first public Internet Service Provider, where she worked on developing leased line and domain name services, including contributing to the informal 'council of hostmasters' policy making process which moderated .UK prior to Nominet's creation in 1996. In the past 11 years, she has participated in the work of many Internet councils, workshops and constituencies in the area of Internet governance and DNS as well as contributed lectures to workshops in Eastern Europe, such as CEENET, the network of Eastern European Networking Association and the South East European CyberSecurity Cooperation Forum, and a number of forums of the Stability Pact for South East Europe, held in Belgrade. Both professionally and on her own behalf, Ms Miloshevic travels widely. Speaking at conferences and business meetings, she has visited more than 30 countries on six continents in the past two years, and has developed extensive links with industry, regulators, government, academics, as well as movements such as the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, and the free and open source community. With respect to the latter relationships, Ms Miloshevic is interested in exploring novel models of both intellectual property and business where proprietary and open source methodologies can be complimentary rather than confrontational for the ultimate benefit of Internet community. She is a long-standing member of ISOC and regularly attends INET meetings. Her recent projects have included raising funds and support for the 30th Anniversary of the International Arpanet. Ms Miloshevic was born in Belgrade to Serbian and Croatian parents and has lived in London since 1991. She is a graduate of the faculty of Foreign Languages of the University of Belgrade, where she studied English Literature. Before her Internet career, she worked as an interpreter and spent a period of time as a music review writer in Chicago, USA.
Afilias .GI: Gibraltar Top-Level-Domain
Registry CENTR: Council of
European National Top-Level Domain Name Registries RIPE: Reseaux Internet
Protocol European IETF: Internet Engineering
Task Force ENUM: mapping telephone
numbers into the domain name system ICANN: Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers PIR: Public Interest
Registry, a not-for-profit corporation created by ISOC, which runs .ORG. Nominet: the registry
for .UK ccTLD: Country Code
Top-Level Domains CyberSecurity Co-operation
South East European Forum Central East European
Networking Association Creative Commons FSF: Free Software
Foundation Belgrade Telecommunications
for development South Eastern Europe
Conference on Regional Security through Data Protection Open Source: Open
Source 30th Birthday of the
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