2024-06-27 APRALO ICANN80 Readout

Satish Babu is an At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) Member representing the Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) and a the former Chair of APRALO. He is the ALAC Liaison to the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) and the Co-Chair of the At-Large IDN WG. He represented ALAC on the IDN Implementation Guidelines 4.0 WG that worked during 2015-2018 and also represents ALAC on the EPDP on IDNs. He is based out of India and volunteers in multiple organizations including ICANN At-Large, Internet Society, IEEE and the Computer Society of India. He is an open source advocate and the founding Director of the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) of the Government of Kerala, India.

Fidya Shabrina is an experienced strategist with solid proficiency in public engagement and media. In the last 7 years, Fidya has applied her expertise covering law, cybersecurity, media production and Internet governance in academic, public, and business sphere, across multiple countries in Asia Pacific and North America. She is skilled in diplomacy and negotiation across multilingual environments with her Native Bahasa Indonesia, Fluent English, and Basic Arabic, Basic German, and Basic Korean language skills. She strives for results by maintaining a strong relationship with both colleagues and clients and she is an ICANN80 Fellow. 

Tomslin Samme-Nlar is a Cybersecurity researcher and executive with a keen interest in the political, military, diplomatic and higher-level management aspects of issues where cybersecurity, strategy and diplomacy interact in Africa. He currently works as a Senior Principal Consultant for Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories and also as the Director of Research at Gefona Digital Foundation (a local think tank in Cameroon). He is also a panel of experts member at the Security Institute of Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA), a Faculty of Military Science research institute of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has had previous roles as a contractor for the Kenyan National Intelligence Service, other government agencies and telcos.

Tomslin is a current councilor in the GNSO Council, the current NCSG Policy Chair and co-chair of the first IANA Function Review Team at the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Tomslin has a master's in Cyber Security, Strategy and Diplomacy from UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy. A Bachelor's degree in Technology Management and Computing from Portsmouth University, UK and other certificates including a certificate in International Law of Armed Conflict in Theory and Practice from Leiden University, a certificate in Diplomatic Theory and Practice from DiploFoundation and an associate degree in Business Administration.

Zakir Syed is currently Director, Internet Governance at the Ministry of IT & Telecom, and is an ICT strategy and research professional having in depth knowledge of emerging technologies, policy & regulation, Internet governance and latest trends in the role of ICTs in different sectors.

Before joining MOITT, he has been working with different for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the MENA and South Asia regions.

Zakir is an alumnus of the ICANN, APrIGF, and MEAC-SIG fellowship programs and has been active contributor to the regional and beyond region internet governance and policy dialogue. He was also nominated by the Internet Society as their Ambassador to the United Nations’ IGF 2017 in Geneva. He is a Software Engineer by training, and has numerous international certifications and trainings to his credit.

Ian Chiang is Director of the Department of Domain Name Services at TWNIC.