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| + | '''George Sadowsky''' is an American computer scientist who has worked in a variety of positions related to the international promotion of the Internet. He was a Member of the [[ICANN Board]] from 2009 to 2018. He served as the head of the [[CEO Search Committee]]. He served on [[ICANN]]'s [[NomCom]] from 2005-2007 and was an adviser to [[NomCom]]'s chair in 2008. He has also been heavily involved with [[ISOC]]. |
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− | George Sadowsky, who was born in Russia, is an American computer scientist who has worked in a variety of positions related to the international promotion of the Internet. He is a current Director of [[ICANN]], elected in 2009 and serving until 2012. He served on [[ICANN]]'s [[NomCom]] from 2005-2007, and was an adviser to [[NomCom]]'s chair in 2008. | + | George Sadowsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale and later studied and taught mathematics at Harvard. |
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− | George Sadowsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale, he later studied and taught mathematics at Harvard.
| + | At the United Nations, he supported technical assistance projects and has worked in more than 50 developing countries. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Treasury, UNDP, USAID, W3C, the Swiss Government, and World Bank. He has served on Boards of AppliedTheory Corporation, educational networks CREN and NYSERNet, and [[ISOC]] where he directed its Developing Country Network Training Workshops. More recently, he was Executive Director of [[GIPI]], the Global Internet Policy Initiative. He has written and lectured extensively on ICT and Internet development, and his presentations are listed on his [http://pws.prserv.net/sadowsky/#involvement website].<ref>[http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-28aug09-en.htm ICANN]</ref> |
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− | At the United Nations, he supported technical assistance projects and has worked in more than 50 developing countries. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Treasury, UNDP, USAID, W3C, the Swiss Government, and World Bank. He has served on Boards of AppliedTheory Corporation, educational networks CREN and NYSERNet, and [[ISOC]] where he directed its Developing Country Network Training Workshops. More recently, he was Executive Director of [[GIPI]], the Global Internet Policy Initiative. He has written and lectured extensively on ICT and Internet development, his presentations are listed [http://pws.prserv.net/sadowsky/#involvement here], on his website.<ref>[http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-28aug09-en.htm ICANN]</ref> | |
| ==Current Endeavours== | | ==Current Endeavours== |
| George Sadowsky lists his current positions on his website, and they are:<ref>[http://pws.prserv.net/sadowsky/#involvement Sadowsky Homepage]</ref> | | George Sadowsky lists his current positions on his website, and they are:<ref>[http://pws.prserv.net/sadowsky/#involvement Sadowsky Homepage]</ref> |
− | * Member, Board of Directors, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), 2009-2012 | + | * Member, Board of Directors, ICANN, 2009-2012 |
− | * Consultant, WF (World Wide Web Foundation) program on use of the mobile web for society | + | * Consultant, WF (World Wide Web Foundation) program on the use of the mobile web for society |
| * Adjunct staff member, Center for Democracy and Technology | | * Adjunct staff member, Center for Democracy and Technology |
| * Participant, United Nations Advisory Group on the Use of the Internet for Terrorism | | * Participant, United Nations Advisory Group on the Use of the Internet for Terrorism |
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| * Member, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Internet Society. | | * Member, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Internet Society. |
| * Reviewer for project and fellowship proposals for various organizations. | | * Reviewer for project and fellowship proposals for various organizations. |
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| + | ==Career History== |
| + | George Sadowsky also lists an extensive list of his past career engagements on his website, some of which include: |
| + | * Organizer and chair, "Issues Regarding the Mobile Internet," Internet Governance Forum, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, December 2009. |
| + | * Member, Public Interest Registry Advisory Council, 2008-2009. |
| + | * Vice-Chair, Economic Opportunities Commission, World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) 2009. |
| + | * Member, Panel of Advisers, U.N. Global Alliance for ICT and Development (G@ID), 2006-2009. |
| + | * Member, Board of Directors, [[PEOPLink]], 2003-2008. |
| + | * Member of the Board of Trustees of the [[ISOC]], 1996-1999 and 2000-2004. Member, Elections Committee 2001-2003, Audit Committee 2002-2003, Chair, Nominations Committee 1997-1998 and 2003-2004. Chair, Elections Committee, 2004-2005. |
| + | * Member, Steering Committee, Markle Foundation and UNDP's Global Digital Opportunity Initiative. |
| + | * Vice President for Education, [[ISOC]], 1998-2001. |
| + | * Vice President for Conferences, [[ISOC]], 1995-1998. |
| + | * Member, Program Committee, 1997 Telecomm Asia, International Telecommunications Union. |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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| + | [[Category:Internet Pioneers]] |