George Sadowsky
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | George.Sadowsky [at] nyu.edu |
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| LinkedIn: |  [george-sadowsky George Sadowsky]
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George Sadowsky, who was born in Russia, is an American computer scientist who has worked in a variety of positions related to the international promotion of the Internet. He is a current Director of ICANN, elected in 2009 and serving until 2012. He served on ICANN's NomCom from 2005-2007, and was an adviser to NomCom's chair in 2008.
George Sadowsky received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale, he later studied and taught mathematics at Harvard.
At the United Nations, he supported technical assistance projects and has worked in more than 50 developing countries. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Treasury, UNDP, USAID, W3C, the Swiss Government, and World Bank. He has served on Boards of AppliedTheory Corporation, educational networks CREN and NYSERNet, and ISOC where he directed its Developing Country Network Training Workshops. More recently, he was Executive Director of GIPI, the Global Internet Policy Initiative. He has written and lectured extensively on ICT and Internet development, his presentations are listed here, on his website.[1]
Current Endeavours
George Sadowsky lists his current positions on his website, and they are:[2]
- Member, Board of Directors, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), 2009-2012
- Consultant, WF (World Wide Web Foundation) program on use of the mobile web for society
- Adjunct staff member, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Participant, United Nations Advisory Group on the Use of the Internet for Terrorism
- Member, President's Council for Information Technologies, Office of the President, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Member, Advisory Body, Pakistan Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center
- Member, Board of Advisers, Bridge to Asia
- Member, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Internet Society.
- Reviewer for project and fellowship proposals for various organizations.