Candidates for ISOC-AU Board, AGM 2004 (alphabetical order)

Greg Adamson
The Internet should be for everyone, not just for narrow political or commercial interests. It isn't a television rerun, and if given the opportunity its users will continue to make it grow in ways that can surprise and amaze us. I see ISoc-AU as part of keeping those opportunities open.

I became interested in the Internet in 1991, doing volunteer work providing e-mail access for a non-government environmental organisation in Indonesia. At the time I was a data communications technician working with traditional protocols such as X.25. On a shoe-string budget I travelled across half of Java installing and training local staff. Through this I realised that the Internet was quite different to traditional data networks.

That discovery changed my professional life. In 1992-93 I converted a government agency (AQIS) to a national TCP/IP network. Through the remainder of the 1990s I managed Internet-related projects or operational roles for government agencies. My first direct contact with the Internet Society, which I joined in 1998, was attending INet in San Jose in 1999 on behalf of Medibank Private. While a member of the Internet Society in Scotland I represented Fujitsu at INet 2001 in Stockholm, where I presented a paper on challenges for Internet use in business. I was also an active contributor to the Internet Societal Task Force.

My professional and volunteer focus on the Internet is accompanied by a research interest. Early this year I completed a PhD on why commercial organisations have had so much difficulty gaining business benefit from Internet investment. I used historical, technical, user, regulatory and business perspectives to examine the period 1995 to 2003.

I now manage an IT operational area for an Australian bank. I am also a member of the ACM, Electronic Frontiers Australia and IEEE, including helping develop a chapter of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology in Australia.

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Kevin Karp
In 1996, at the Inaugural General Meeting of ISOC-AU I suggested that ISOC-AU must develop a political voice in order to achieve its objectives. Since that time, ISOC-AU has been very successful in establishing its role and position within industry and government through the good work of its past and existing boards.

The Internet is now faced with new and difficult challenges that we must face as an industry, as users of the net, as individuals, and as a society. In essence I believe that the Internet is at a point of significant threat to its future universality of usage, and to our individual rights of usage. The motto of ISOC-AU is that the Internet is for everyone, we must prepare ourselves for the prospect that we will need to defend this proposition.

I believe that my extensive involvement with the Internet at a business and commercial level, and my experience within the commercial sector (see below) allows me to bring an additional perspective to the solid foundation that ISOC-AU has established. I see myself as a team player that has much to contribute to furthering the value of the Internet to Australian society.

CV
1992-95, Member of executive committee, Australasian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association, and Vice-President of AIMIA for 1994-5
1982-2004, Voting Member of Association of Computing Machinery
1987-2004, Founder and Managing Director of PPS Internet, one of Australia's longest running full service Internet Data Centre and Hosting services.
1987-2004 Associate of the Securities Industry Association
1996-2004 Member ISOC-AU
2003-4 Member Internet Industry Association - SPAM and Authorisation Virtual Taskforces

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Ross Kelso
I would like to see ISOC-AU encourage designers of technology and Internet service providers to better take into account the needs of users and to ensure that delivery channels and services will be open to all. Internet standards and regulatory control are especially significant in this regard. Government decisions can particularly play a major role in ensuring that future services will be affordable, useful and not captured by sectional interests.

As an organisation, I believe that ISOC-AU needs to re-examine its business environment and take steps now to ensure that it can continue to serve its member constituency over the coming decade and beyond.

At present, I am undertaking full-time doctoral studies at Queensland University of Technology in the Creative Industries Faculty. My research focus concerns the policy and investment settings that can bring about the next generation of high bandwidth communication infrastructure and service delivery to residences and small businesses throughout Australia.

I am currently a member of the Consumers Telecommunications Network, the Communications and Media Law Association, and the Telecommunication Society of Australia. For more on my background and interests, see my home page.

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Cheryl Langdon-Orr Cheryl Langdon-Orr
Twenty plus years ago I left my Post-Grad research and career as a tutor in Physiology (although I am still a Teaching Associate at the Asia Pacific Research Institute of Macquarie University) to operate our then micro enterprise, Hovtek Pty. Limited.

I am a telecommuter, and licensee of domain names in .au as well as in the global DNS, but most importantly, I am an avid end-user of the Internet for work and recreation. Recently we have established a second business interest, which was developed form some of the TQM activities of Hovtek; BuildersNet, which relies totally on the Internet to facilitate its operation.

Our clients in Australia are Micro Businesses and SMEs - and internationally mainly SMEs and Government or Aid Funded bodies; we service and communicate with them almost exclusively online and the majority of our importation of raw materials and products as well as export documentation bookings etc. is now handled that way. I am a Director in several Associations and a NFP company interested in Global Trade and SME growth, facilitated by Internet use, under the auspices of UNCTAD.

I believe the Internet should be seen as a public asset and needs to be developed and maintained as a cost-effective and accessible resource for communication, education, community, social and business opportunities by the Australian and wider global community.

My focus and ongoing interests are not specifically technical but rather more consumer and end user focused (I currently represent ISOC-AU in the ACIF Consumer Advisory Council) with a keen interest in Policy Development, Access, Outreach and Regulatory issues.

I was an Individual Member (prior to the formation of our Chapter) of ISOC and am a Demand Class Member of auDA, having been recently re-elected as a Board Member for my second term of office. Previously I have worked on several auDA Policy Advisory Panels, and am the current Chair of the Domain Name Industry Code of Practice Committee.

If re-elected to the Board of ISOC-AU I look forward to continuing my active and participatory role both generally and specifically in my task as Honorary Treasurer.

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Jeremy Malcolm BCom, LLB (Hons)
I am the manager of two Internet-focussed businesses; an IT consultancy called Terminus Network Services, and my legal practice which emphasises IT and communications law. Some years after I began to use the Internet I became concerned about its future, and involved myself with several organisations seeking to maintain and broaden its accessibility.

I hope to be able to make a real contribution to ISOC-AU as I have also endeavoured to do with the Australian Public Access Networks Association since 1996, the Western Australian Society for Computers and the Law Inc since 1995, the Western Australian Internet Association since 2000, and Electronic Frontiers Australia from 1999 to 2001.

My particular interests in Internet management include the development of open standards, the domain name system, telecommunications regulation, cryptography policy and the competitive expansion of broadband networks. I am currently chairing a taskforce of the Internet Industry Association that is developing a Spam Code for the Internet Industry.

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Andrew McRae
I am a founding member of ISOC-AU, and have been involved with networking and the Internet for as long as it has been available in Australia, even back to the ACSnet days. I am a Principal Engineer with a silicon valley startup call Netdevices Inc where I am developing next generation routers, so I have a strong interest in the growth and stability of the Internet.

I would like to see ISOC-AU play a vital role in ensuring that the Internet in Australia grows and develops in an open and vital way, so that Australian individuals and businesses benefit from the enabling technologies of the Internet.

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