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Karen Rose appointed as ISOC'S Director of Education and Programs

Reston, VA and Geneva, Switzerland - 26th September 2006 - The Internet Society (ISOC) today announced the appointment of Karen Rose as its Director of Education and Programs. This key appointment, which is effective immediately, will further strengthen ISOC's role in providing Internet education and training initiatives aimed at promoting a sustainable, open, and accessible Internet for all.

In this newly-created position, Karen will drive ISOC's education and training initiatives in support of the society's strategic objectives in the area of capacity building and Internet education. These include broad outreach and training activities aimed at helping local communities develop sustainable Internet infrastructures and assisting policy makers in understanding the technical underpinnings of contemporary Internet issues.

Karen has extensive experience working with the Internet community, including the IETF and the IAB, to promote the open development and evolution of the Internet internationally. Karen began her career at as a policy analyst at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission working on global Internet and e-commerce issues. In 1998, she joined the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce where her work focused on the coordination of Internet naming and addressing functions, including the Internet domain name system, ENUM, and IPv6. In 2002, she left government to join an Internet start-up in Sydney, Australia where her work focused on corporate strategy, product development, and technology training. Most recently, she has been an independent telecommunications and Internet consultant based in Cairo, Egypt and Sydney, Australia. She has been an active participant in Internet discussions in various international governmental and non-governmental organisations including the ITU, OECD, CITEL, APEC, ICANN, and the PTC.

Karen will be undertaking her role with ISOC from the Asia-Pacific region. She can be reached at rose@isoc.org.

Lynn St. Amour, ISOC's President and CEO, said, "We are very pleased to have Karen joining us as her background in policy and her knowledge of key Internet technical matters is very well suited to helping ISOC expand our educational activities in both policy and technical spheres on a global level."

About ISOC

The Internet Society is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in
1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world. ISOC is the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and other Internet-related bodies who together play a critical role in ensuring that the Internet develops in a stable and open manner. For over 14 years ISOC has run international network training programs for developing countries and these have played a vital role in setting up the Internet connections and networks in virtually every country connecting to the Internet during this time.

For further details

Peter Godwin
Communications Manager, Internet Society
E-mail: godwin@isoc.org
4, rue des Falaises
1205 Geneva
Switzerland