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.[1] 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. He also an advocate of improving digital literacy by helping underdeveloped schools through training and refurbishing old peripherals/hardware for donations. This was evidenced as one of the entries during Chapterthon 2017, where he led a group of college students to a project on improving the infrastructure and creating an impact to students within the beneficiary school and community.
ISOC, ICANN and Internet Governance Involvement edit
Aris is currently a Board Member and current Vice President of Technology at the Internet Society (ISOC) Philippines Chapter, which is a member of the At-Large structure and Outreach working group in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He is a founding board member of the rejuvenation of the said chapter, past President, Vice President of Development and Chair of the Board. He was a past ICANN fellow in several meetings and represented ISOC-PH in the events. Currently, Aris is a member of ALAC Outreach and Engagement Subcommittee working group at ICANN. He was a participant the 1st Asia Pacific School of Internet Governance (APSIG) and was selected as one of the Ambassadors for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2017, held in Geneva, Switzerland.[2]
He is also a member of the Multi-stakeholder Steering Group[3] (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, 2019 and 2020. In addition, Aris was one of the mentors for the 2020 IGF Youth Ambassadors and current At-Large mentor for the NextGen program of ICANN.
He was the main proponent for IN2ITion [4] (Into IT Convention), a national student-led convention that features various topics and issues in the field of Information Technology and Internet Governance. Aris is also one of the pioneers in the Learn IG[5] initiative.
Education edit
Aris holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science, a masters degree in Information Management and a doctorate degree in Information Technology. He is also a Microsoft Certified Professional and Certified Educator.[6]He has presented research and facilitated topics and discussions relating to Internet Governance nationally and internationally.
Fun Facts edit
Aris is a basketball fan and comments and reports on games and teams in the Philippine Basketball Association, as well as other leagues and amateur competitions.Most likely source of basketball commentary is [7]
Video edit
Aris moderating during a capacity building session at APrIGF 2020: