Rim Hayat Chaif

Organization:	International Foundation of Electoral System
Affiliation:	ALAC, Fellowship Program, GNSO, ICANN
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Region:	Middle East
Country:	USA
Email:	rimchaif@gmail.com
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Rim H. Chaif is a multilingual investigative journalist with six years of experience in writing for regional, national, and international media.

Career

Currently hosted by the International Foundation of electoral systems in the United States of America, Rim is a program Fellow where she assists the MENA team in finance, reporting, contracting, and research. Prior to that, Rim was part of Global press institute where she served as a Research and Editorial Fellow conducting research mainly on the Local media market including women journalists, libel, and defamation laws in countries of Francophone Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Rim joined HIVOS in 2014, as an internet policy analyst/contributor in the project “IGMENA” (Internet Governance in the Middle East and North Africa. In this role, she conducted research and wrote reports about digital rights including privacy and data protection. She participated as well in various regional and international meetings such as ICANN, EuroDig, Global IGF, and Arab IGF as a fellow, Speaker, and coach.

Rim is a part of Jeem, a project to shed light on women’s rights violations in the Arab world, as a Women’s Rights Advocate. She has written many stories and reports describing the situation of Algerian women. Rim has also volunteered as a Communication and Social Media Manager at Crossing Borders (CB), an international organization based in Denmark, where she gained experience in project management, website content management, social media strategy, and magazine editing. She produced CB Magazine (Voices of the Move): collecting and editing human-interest stories about migrants and refugees, and their challenges in integration in the new society. Rim’s goal is to direct the world’s attention to unlisted and uncovered stories and events, especially unrepresented communities and minorities. She believes in the power of words as a change factor.

Involvement in Internet Governance

• IGMENA Internet Policy analyst, since 2014.
• IGF Fellow: The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, Istanbul, September 2014
• Online capacity building program on Internet Governance MENA region special edition organized by Hivos, IGMENA in collaboration with DiploFoundation -GENEVA. September to November 2014.
• HIVOS / IGMENA: participated in the workshop "Internet Governance and Policies in the Middle East and North Africa", Beirut, June 2014.

Education

Rim earned her master’s degree in institutional journalism from the National School of journalism and Information science in Algiers. She also holds a second master’s degree in Pedagogy and Media education from Calabria University in Italy.

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Internet Governance Forum