Barkha Manral
Barkha Manral is a technical document writer at National Knowledge Network, National Informatics Centre. She joined NIC as a outsource staff in the year 2020. She has worked and written documents on various technology and her keen interest in writing can be seen in her blogs. She has her foot in the knowledge of Networking, wireless and wired Networks, and Servers, and at present, she is working with the DNS team on Public DNS (1.10.10.10), one of the major initiatives towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat. She has written blogs under the technical writing genre, proofread two books, and written a patent paper.
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| Organization: | Corporate Infotech Pvt. Ltd. | ||
| Country: | India | ||
| Email: | barkha.manral [at] nkn.in | ||
| Blog: | https://barkhablogs.substack.com | ||
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Interest and Skill Sets
- Wired and Wireless Networks
- Domain Name System
- Writing technical blogs (available at https://technicalblogsbarkha.blogspot.com/)
- Proofread the handbook - “TUNE INTO WLC” (ISBN No - 978-93-5419-656-0 and Copyright No L-97828/2020) and co-authored the book “AN INTRODUCTION TO CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE” (ISBN No - 978-93-5419-269-2 and Copyright No L-98405/2021).
- Policymaking and curating
Internet Governance
She entered the world of Internet governance in 2020. Her journey of understanding and growth led her to the Youth Internet Governance Forum-India, where she joined as an Organizing Committee member for the 6th edition. This marked the beginning of her learning and development journey. She became a fellow at ICANN78 and engaged with ICANN's Advisory Committee RALOs. Regionally, she became involved with NetMission.Asia as an ambassador and is currently an active member in various NetMission initiatives. She continued her involvement by joining ICANN80 as a fellow alumnus and has been selected for APSIG2024. She is still learning and expanding her understanding of Internet governance through the perspectives of community members and end users.
Education
Barkha Manral completed her B.Sc. in Life sciences from Ramjas College, University of Delhi, India in 2017. She has done a Master's in Public Administration from Indira Gandhi National Open University in 2021 and is currently pursuing a Master's in Computer Application from Indira Gandhi National Open University. She holds certifications like CBS (IGNOU), JNCIA-MIST AI, CISCO-NETWORKING ESSENTIALS, CISCO-INTRODUCTION TO CYBER SECURITY, and BASICS OF GIS.
Groups
Member of the Drafting Committee for APrIGF for the year 2022 and headed the Sustainability group in the committee part.
YIGF-India 6th edition OC member
inSIG participant for year 2023 ICANN78 fellow
Volunteer Member of Implementation Review team-ICANN
Member of Universal Acceptance Stakeholder Group, Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation[APRALO] (ICANN Communities)
Youth Student at NetMission Asia under NetMission Academy 2024
References
1. https://ap.rigf.asia/committees/#committeeDrafting
2. https://technicalblogsbarkha.blogspot.com/