Juan Manuel Rojas
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| Organization: | AGEIA DENSI Colombia |
| Affiliation: | GNSO |
| Region: | Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Country: | Colombia |
| Email: | jmanuelrojasp@gmail.com |
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Juan Manuel Rojas is a professional in Journalism and Social Communication, and a M.Sc. Information Technology. He also has experience in the formulation, implementation, and development of E-government Strategies. Currently serve as NPOC Chair.
Internet Governance and ICANN Involvement[edit | edit source]
He is an alumnus of South School of Internet Governance (SSIG) from 2010, made in Brazil and alumni of Diplo Internet Governance Building Program (IGCBP), from Foundation to Research Phases.
He has been involved in ICANN since 2011 when the organization that he leads was approved as an ALS in LACRALO. He was a member of Internet Governance WG for ELAC 2010.
Lecturer in academic events such as ICEGOV (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance) organised by United Nation University - UNU, in China (2010) and Estonia (2011).
Participant of LACIGF en 2011, 2012 y 2014.
International speaker and workshop leader. Knowledge of Consensus and Conflict. Administration, planning, maintenance and web marketing. AGEIA DENSI Founder and CEO of AGEIA DENSI, Colombia. He has been with the organization since 2010 [1]. His organization is also a member of Orinoco TIC Cluster, as Communication and Governance Director, and involved in the Colombian Internet Governance Table.
He has experience in the Ministry of Communications as a delegate to develop and implement the E-government Strategy of Gobierno en Línea (Online Government) where he was involved in Capacity Building to mayors and counciliors of Villavicencio y Puerto Rico (Meta). He was also the regional coordinator for Acacías, Cubarral, Cumaral, Granada, Fuente de Oro, Lejanías, Mesetas, Restrepo y San Juan de Arama (Meta). He created a Virtual Help Desk to support all field delegates.
ICANN Experience[edit | edit source]
His first ICANN meeting was ICANN 43, in San José, Costa Rica, he was also part of ATLAS II at London 50. He is on the GNSO Council as a Policy Committee member in the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group. In Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns (NPOC), he was the Communications, Membership and Policy Committee Chair, and part of the Executive Committee as well. He was selected as a member of LAC Strategy Council. He also was elected as GNSO Councilor in the term 2020-2022 for NCSG.
Some of the Working Groups which he has been involved in ICANN
- GNSO Locking of a Domain Name subject to UDRP
- ALAC Subcommittee on Outreach and Engagement
- At-Large Capacity Building Working Group
- At-Large Social Media Working Group
- Technical Issues Working Group
- At-Large Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program Review Team (CROPP RT) for LACRALO as a Program Coordinator
- At-Large Technology Taskforce Working Group
- ALS Criteria and Expectations Taskforce
- Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Services to Replace Whois
- New gTLDs - Geographic Names as TLDs (WT5)
- ICANN Academy Intercultural Awareness Program
Awards[edit | edit source]
- 2014 Best Researcher - UNIMINUTO Villavicencio, Meta
- 2012 Best Paper Award, International Journal of Computer Science and Management Research
Publications[edit | edit source]
- E-government models in Latin-America: comparative research. ACM Press. Beijing, China PAPER 2010 • International Conference Proceedings Series Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, October 25-28, pp 395-396. ISBN 978-1-4503-0058-2
- E-participation and e-governance at Web 2.0 in Local Governments of Colombia ACM Press. Tallinn, Estonia PAPER 2011 • International Conference Proceedings Series. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, September 26-28, pp 301-304. ISBN 978-1-4503-0746-8
- Strategies to achieve the e-participation in processes of democratization of local governments IJCMSR PAPER 2012 • International Journal of Computer Science and Management Research, October Vol. 1(Issue 3). Available at http://www.ijcsmr.org/vol1issue3/paper60.pdf
- Uso de redes sociales en los gobiernos locales de Colombia. Revista Mediaciones PAPER 2014 • Revista Mediaciones No. 13, edicion julio-diciembre 2014. ISSN: 1692- 5688
- Elecciones y medios de Comunicación.Tomo I MOE BOOK CHAPTER 2014 • Capítulo: Seguimiento a medios durante elecciones de Congreso 2014. Edicion Misión de Observacion Electoral. 2014. ISBN: 978- 958-587-30-0-1
- Elecciones y medios de Comunicación.Tomo II MOE BOOK CHAPTER 2014 • Capitulo: Comportamiento de medios impresos durante elecciones de Presidencia en el departamento del Meta 2014. Edicion Mision de Observacion Electoral. 2015. ISBN: 978-958-587-30-0-1.