Agenda

Carolina Caeiro, DNSRF Senior Internet Policy Specialist. Carolina Caeiro is Senior internet Specialist at the DNS Research Federation and Oxford Information Labs. She specialises in technology and internet governance with a focus on regional perspectives from the Global south and the interplay between technology and geopolitics. She worked for Regional Internet Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean (LACNIC) and Argentina’s first fact-checking organisation, Chequeado. At LACNIC she spearheaded regional initiatives to promote internet security, stability and access in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining the DNSRF, Carolina was Academy Associate with the US & the Americas Programme at Chatham House. She has been an active participant in the global IGF and the regional IGFs (LACIGF and APrIGF, and EuroDIG) supporting across both fora as session organiser, speaker and facilitator. She has actively participated in 7 IGFs between 2015 and 2022. She has contributed to IGF conversations on Gender Diversity, Connectivity and Community Networks, IPv6 deployment, Cybersecurity. She represented LACNIC at IGF’s LAC Space and facilitated the integration into the IGF community of LACNIC Grantees.  She is currently co-chair for the Dynamic Coalition on DNS issues. 

Chris Buckridge is an independent consultant in the Internet governance and digital policy space. He worked for more two decades with the Regional Internet Registries (APNIC and the RIPE NCC), and helped to drive the RIPE NCC’s engagement on issues of public policy and Internet governance. He has worked closely with intergovernmental organisations including the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the OECD, and the United Nations, as well as the institutions of the European Union.

Chris currently serves as a member of the ICANN Board of Directors, a member of the board of the EuroDIG Association, and a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. He also acts as an advisor to the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) and Access Partnership.

Jennifer Chung is the Director of Corporate Knowledge for DotAsia Organisation. She represents .Asia Registry in the Registry Stakeholder Group at ICANN and is a GNSO councilor for the RySG. She previously headed the Secretariat for the ICG that oversaw the transfer of the IANA stewardship from the US government (NTIA) to the global multistakeholder community. Ms. Chung was an appointed member on the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group from 2018-2020, and part of the 2022 Expert Working Group tasked by the UN Secretariat to give recommendations on strengthening and improving the IGF as a space for global multistakeholder discussion on Internet policy issues. She heads the Secretariat for IGFSA which provides support to the global UN IGF and grants seed funding to National, Regional and Youth Initiatives. She is a part of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum organizing team and works towards amplifying Asia Pacific views and contributions on Internet governance. Ms. Chung is a member of the ISIF.asia Selection Committee that awards grants for research and implementation of technical solutions that support Internet development in Asia Pacific. She works on Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) policies as part of the ICANN IDN EPDP working on policy recommendations on the management of variant labels. She supports efforts to achieve Universal Acceptance of domain names, a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which
users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages.

Anriette Esterhuysen was the executive director of APC until March 2017. Prior to joining APC, Anriette was executive director of SANGONeT, an internet service provider and training institution for civil society, labour and community organisations. She was active in the struggle against Apartheid from 1980 onwards. From 1987 to 1992 she did information and communication work in development and human rights organisations in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Anriette, with many others, helped establish email and internet connectivity in Southern Africa. SANGONeT hosted a Fidonet hub that provided universities and non-governmental organisations in, among other places, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, with email links to global networks as part of a collaboration between APC and the United Nations Development Programme. Anriette has served on the African Technical Advisory Committee of the UN's Economic Commission for Africa's African Information Society Initiative and was a member of the United Nations ICT Task Force from 2002 to 2005, the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Working Group on Financing Mechanisms, and the Commission on Science and Technology for Development Working Group on Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Improvements. She was a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum from 2012 to 2014.

Anriette was one of five finalists for IT Personality of the Year in South Africa in 2012, an award which recognises a person who has made an outstanding impact on the South African ICT industry. She was the only female and only civil society finalist. She was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a Global Connecter in 2013. Currently Anriette is a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance and the Council of the NETmundial Initiative. She has published extensively on ICTs for development and social justice. She holds a BA in social sciences and postgraduate qualifications in history of music and information sciences from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.