Sergio Salinas Porto

Country:	Argentina
Email:	presidencia [at] internauta.org.ar
Website:	[JDDomains.net JDDomains.net]
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Sergio Salinas Porto is the Managing Partner at Mapu Tecnologia, and the President of Internauta Argentina (Argentina Association of Internet Users). He represents Internauta in a number of different forums, in and out of ICANN, including within the NCUC and within LACRALO. He is also the founding member and first President of the Federación Latinoamericana de Usuarios de Internet (FLUI).

Mr. Porto is involved in a number of other international and regional organizations and projects; he is a Member of the Forum for Democratic and Popular Communication, Mar de Plata's Secretary of Communication for Central de Trabajadores Argentinos, and the Head of new technologies and business for the Assembly of Small and Medium Entrepreneurs' Mar de Plata division. He has brought awareness to the digital divide, and worked in a number of efforts to create universal computer and Internet access, including participation in media profiles, both on radio and television.

ICANN Participation

Sergio Salinas Porto is a frequent ICANN attendee, where he represents Internauta within the Non-Commercial Users Constituency, and is a LACRALO representative to the ALAC. He was elected to the latter position following ICANN Cartagena.

At ICANN 42 in Dakar, Porto addressed ICANN via an open mic session about the issue of The Falkland Islands and South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands being given their own ccTLD, despite the dispute of their nationality and Argentina's sovereign claim over the territories. He noted that while ICANN does not generally involve itself in territory disputes, it had effectively recognized these islands as separate sovereign entities through the delegation of ccTLDs; Porto, on behalf of Internauta, described them as an integral part of Argentine territory, which is being misrepresented by ICANN. ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom replied that the organization uses the ISO 3160. Mr. Porto countered that he believed ICANN was mature enough to make its own country lists. The Argentine foreign ministry also sent a letter to ICANN over the same issue.

He is a member of the At-Large Improvements Work Team C (WT-C), the team which proposed key changes to ALAC processes at ICANN 40 Silicon Valley.