Dave Kissoondoyal

1. Have been a member of the African Stakeholders Network (ASN) of the United Nations ICT Task Force. The ASN has been launched to ensure that United Nations-efforts to bridge the digital divide in Africa are better coordinated, more inclusive and reflective of the significant efforts already underway to develop an African information society. I have been a member of the working groups of the UN ICT Task Force http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/user.pl?do=profile;id=2525 2. President of the Bhojpuri Speaking Union of Mauritius. 3. Past President of the Save the Children Mauritius. 4. One of the Ambassadors of the Internet Society for the World Summit on the Information Society and was actively present in Geneva and Tunis. 5. National expert from Mauritius in connection with the World Summit Award held in connection with the World Summit on the Information Society held in Geneva and Tunis (2003 – 2005). 6. Nominated in the E-Achievers Awards 2002 and was the finalist of the ICT Achievers Award 2004. 7. Member of NCUC ICANN The Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) is the home for civil society organizations in ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). With real voting power in ICANN, it develops and supports Internet policies that favor noncommercial communication and activity on the Internet, and it participates in the selection of ICANN Board members 8. Has been a member of the UNESCO's Information for All Programme (IFAP) National Committee of Mauritius. Information for All (IFAP) is an intergovernmental Program of UNESCO. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/ifap 9. Helped in drafting the Global Information Technology Readiness Report in 2001, initiative by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard University. http://www.cid.harvard.edu/archive/cr/profiles/mauritius.pdf 10. Editor of the Open Site Internet Encyclopedia http://open-site.org/profiles/mauritian.html 11. Featured member of the TakingItGlobal Community. http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/Mauritian, 12. Member of the Development Gateway Community. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/um/showGeneralMemberProfile.do~userId=10001400 13. Member of the Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/mauritius 14. Member of the Small Islands Developing States Network http://whoiswho.sidsnet.org/index.cfm?module=Members&page=Profile&UserID=1216. 15. Was also one of the three finalists for the MOST OUTSTANDING YOUNG PERSON of 1996 and 2003 of Mauritius. 16. Founder and President of the Internet Society Chapter of Mauritius 17. Associate of the Chartered Management Institute of the United Kingdom. 18. Past Director of Information Technology at TIntelenet Mauritius Ltd 19. Member of the Public Interest Registry .ORG Advisory Council. http://www.pir.org/index.php?db=content/Website&tbl=About_Us&id=7#dkissoondoyal Public Interest Registry (www.pir.org) is a not-for-profit corporation created by the Internet Society to manage the .ORG domain.