Aris Ignacio
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| Affiliation: | ALAC, Fellowship Program |
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| Region: | Asia |
| Country: | Philippines |
| Email: | arisignacio[at]yahoo.com |
| LinkedIn: |  Aris Ignacio
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| Twitter: |  @aris_ignacio
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Aris Ignacio is the Dean of the College of Information Technology at Southville International School and Colleges in the Philippines. He is an advocate for the youth being a major stakeholder group in Internet Governance discussions, and has facilitated the participation of university/college students in local, regional and global Internet governance events, particularly in Asia-Pacific.
Aris is currently the Chair and Board Member and previously a Vice President of Development at ISOC Philippines Chapter, which is a member of the At-Large structure and Outreach working group in ICANN. He was a past ICANN fellow in several meetings and represented ISOC-PH in the meetings. He was a participant the 1st Asia Pacific School of Internet Governance (APSIG) and was selected as one of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Ambassadors[1] for 2017 which was held in Geneva, Switzerland.
He is also a member of the Multi-stakeholder Steering Group[2] (MSG) for the Asia Pacific Regional IGF. Aris has been a co-chair and currently a member of the APrIGF Fellowship team for 2017, 2018 and 2019.
He was the main proponent for IN2ITION (Into IT Convention), a national student-led convention that features various topics and issues in the field of Information Technology and Internet Governance.
He is also one of the pioneers in the Learn IG[3] initiative.