Monica Abalo Laforgia

Country:	Argentina
Email:	Monica [at] consultingproject.com.ar
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Monica Abalo has been a Professor at the University of Business and Social Sciences since 2009. She has been a member of ISOC since 2006, and the President at Argentina Chapter of ISOC since 2008. She is the current director and owner of Consulting Project.

Career History

From 2000 to 2006, she was the Contract Manager at COMSAT International; and from 1998 to 2006, she was the Contract Manager at COMSAT Argentina.

Since 2006, she has been an independent consultant in telecommunication issues, such as data protection, spam, security, e-commerce and cybercrime, development policies and procedures, analyse the regulatory framework, draft and negotiate contracts and develop and submit consulting and research projects.

At LACNIC's X Meeting held in May, 2007 on Margarita Island, Venezuela, she was selected as a key speaker to give a lecture entitled “Security of the Internet: Key Issues”.

Ms. Abalo was selected by the ISOC Ambassador Program to participate in the Internet Governance Forum in November, 2007, in Río de Janeiro. She was the 2009 IGC MAG Candidate.

She also participates in a radio program entitled “Right to Internet."

Education

She graduated Law School in 1992. She has studied post-degree courses in Telecommunication at the University of San Andres and University of Buenos Aries.

In 2007, she completed a course named Legal Aspects of E-commerce as a part of an E-learning program.

She took the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme from the DiploFoundation; Ginger Paque and Adela Danciu tutored her.

She participated with CICTE in courses of CSIRT about related-legal frameworks within the region, and an Open Session of Internet Governance Forum held in Rio de Jenerio. She was a member of the working group organized by the National Office of Information Technologies.

Media

Interview with Monica Abalo Laforgia

Internet Society