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George Sadowsky

	Featured in the ICANN 41 - Singapore playing card deck

	Formerly a member of the ICANN Board

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.

George Sadowsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale and 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 website.^[1]

Current Endeavours[edit | edit source]

George Sadowsky lists his current positions on his website, and they are:^[2]

Member, Board of Directors, ICANN, 2009-2012
Consultant, WF (World Wide Web Foundation) program on the use of the mobile web for society
Adjunct staff member, Center for Democracy and Technology
Participant, United Nations Advisory Group on the Use of the Internet for Terrorism
Member, President's Council for Information Technologies, Office of the President, Sofia, Bulgaria
Member, Advisory Body, Pakistan Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center
Member, Board of Advisers, Bridge to Asia
Member, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Internet Society.
Reviewer for project and fellowship proposals for various organizations.

Career History[edit | edit source]

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.

References[edit | edit source]

[1] ICANN

[2] Sadowsky Homepage

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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]].
-George Sadowsky (born September 30, 1936 in Russia) is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities, related to promotion of the Internet worldwide.
+George Sadowsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale and later studied and taught mathematics at Harvard.
-George Sadowsky studied and taught mathematics at Harvard and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale. He worked as a mathematician and programmer, and headed computing centers at the Brookings Institution, Northwestern University and New York University. At the United Nations, he supported technical assistance projects and has worked in more than 50 developing countries. He has been a consultant to, inter alia, the U.S. Treasury, UNDP, USAID, W3C, the Swiss Government, and the World Bank. He has served on Boards of AppliedTheory Corporation, educational networks CREN and NYSERNet, and [[the Internet Society]] where he directed ISOC's 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 development.
+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>
+==Current Endeavours==
+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, 2009-2012
+* Consultant, WF (World Wide Web Foundation) program on the use of the mobile web for society
+* Adjunct staff member, Center for Democracy and Technology
+* Participant, United Nations Advisory Group on the Use of the Internet for Terrorism
+* Member, President's Council for Information Technologies, Office of the President, Sofia, Bulgaria
+* Member, Advisory Body, Pakistan Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center
+* Member, Board of Advisers, Bridge to Asia
+* Member, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Internet Society.
+* Reviewer for project and fellowship proposals for various organizations.
-== Career History ==
+==Career History==
-* He is the Director of [[ICANN]](2009-2012)
+George Sadowsky also lists an extensive list of his past career engagements on his website, some of which include:
-* He works as a consultant at the World Wide Web Consortium
+* Organizer and chair, "Issues Regarding the Mobile Internet," Internet Governance Forum, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, December 2009.
-* He was a member of the Advisory Committee at Public Interest Registry
+* Member, Public Interest Registry Advisory Council, 2008-2009.
-* He worked as a Executive Director at Internews Network
+* Vice-Chair, Economic Opportunities Commission, World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) 2009.
-* He was the Director, Academic Computer Facility at New York University
+* Member, Panel of Advisers, U.N. Global Alliance for ICT and Development (G@ID), 2006-2009.
-* He was a Trustee at [[The Internet Society]]
+* 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.
 ==References==
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-[[category: People]]
 [[category: USA]]
+[[Category:Former ICANN Board]]
+[[Category:Internet Pioneers]]