Rafik Dammak
Country: | Japan |
Email: | rafik.dammak[at]gmail.com |
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LinkedIn: | [Rafik's LinkedIn Rafik Dammak] |
Twitter: | @rafik |
Rafik Dammak is a Ph.D. applicant at the University of Tokyo; he is an applied computer scientist working on wireless sensor networks.
ICANN
Rafik is involved in ICANN's GNSO council, where he represents the NCUC; his tenure began at ICANN's 2009 Seoul Conference.[1]
He is also involved in a number of working groups, and also a member of Executive and Policy Committees within the NCUC.[2] and He is co-chair of the new gTLD Applicant Supporting Working Group.
Videos
Watch Rafik Dammak, along with other familiar ICANN participants, discuss the Multistakeholder Model. The video was produced with help from Google at ICANN 44 in June, 2012, in Prague. <videoflash>xR5csH7tIyc</videoflash>
Other Work
Rafik has moderated Youth and Internet Governance forums with participation from the DiploFoundation and its Egyptian and Finnish partners. This work resulted in the creation of a Youth Coalition on Internet Governance. Rafik hopes that Internet Policy Makers start to include more young voices, and also that the youth realize how their own interests can intersect with the policy creation for the global Internet.[3]