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ALAC / At-Large Statement of Interest (SOI) is found here Cheryl Langdon-Orr SOI
GNSO Statement of Interest (SOI) found here Cheryl Langdon-Orr GNSO - SOI
IRP Community Representatives Group (SOI) found here Cheryl Langdon-Orr - SOI
About Me in ICANN...
Within ICANN's At-Large Community, I represent Internet Australia (ISOC-AU)
About Me
In June 2015 Cheryl was awarded the second ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos Award along with Nii Quaynor. This award first established in 2014, "... was created to recognize those ICANN participants who have deeply invested in consensus-based solutions and the importance of ICANN’s multistakeholder model to Internet Governance."
Up until end October 2015, at the ICANN 54 meeting in Dublin Cheryl served as the Associate Chair of the 2015 ICANN Nominating Committee, also in 2014 she was reappointed as a Director of Internet Australia (then known a the Internet Society of Australia, ISOC-AU) an accredited ICANN At-Large Structure (ALS) since March 2005, having served in this capacity since 2001. For ten (10) years( 2004 to 27 Oct 2014) she has also been an elected Demand Class Director of the .au Domain Name Administrator (auDA) for Country Code TLD .au (which is a Founding Member of the ICANN ccNSO) , serving in a number of Board WG's and activities most recently in the Board Finance and Budget Sub Committee, and Chairing the Board Governance and Remuneration Sub Committee.
Her term as the Chair of the 2014 ICANN Nominating Committee http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01oct13-en.htm was completed with the closing of the ICANN Public Meeting #51 in Los Angeles mid Oct 2014.
She continues to serve as a consumer advocate representative to the Australian Communications Compliance (CommCom) Advisory Committee an independent code monitoring (and reporting) body, that is to ensure that Carriage Service Providers (CSPs) in Australia are compliant with the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) Code, since appointment there in late 2012, as well as having served as the 2013 NomCom Chair-Elect." until end November 2013 and the ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO (2010 -2013) http://ccnso.icann.org/. Previously she has been appointed as a Vice Chair of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) 2010-2011), after three terms (2007-10) as the ALAC Chair.
Within ICANNs At-Large Community she represents ISOC-AU as an ICANN accredited At-Large Structure (ALS) in ICANN's Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO) and also as an APRALO representative to the ALAC, (2007 - 2011). As Chair of the ALAC she , I was appointed to serve on the 1st Affirmation of Commitments Review Team for ICANN, looking at Accountability and Transparency. http://icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/review-1-en.htm; Cheryl is At the end of 2018, after following the process and progress of the 2nd ATRT and other ICANN Specific and Organisational Reviews extremely closely, I was pleased to be appointed to also serve on behalf of the ALAC/At-Large in the 2019 3rd Accountability and Transparency Review Team ATRT3. I am also an Individual member of the GNSO's NomCommercial takeholder Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG). In the ICANN Community Cheryl and has also served on a numerous Working Groups, Work Teams, and Task Forces (mostly listed and linked below). ALAC / At-Large Statement of Interest (SOI) is found here Cheryl Langdon-Orr SOI and GNSO Statement of Interest (SOI) found here Cheryl Langdon-Orr GNSO - SOI
ICANN SO, AC and Cross Community Chartered Work Groups, Work Teams, Task Forces, etc.,
CURRENT
Cross Community Committee on Accessibility (Moderator)
Cross Community WG - CCWG on ICANN Accountability (ALAC Member for APRegional and Rapouteur for WPs and WTs)
ALAC Representative to the 2026 Planning Prioritization Process
ALAC Representative to the New Names Implementation Review Team (IRT) formally SubPro-IRT
Member of the New Names IRT Applicant Support Sub Track
ALAC Representative Member of the Continuous Improvement Program (CIP) Community Coordination Group
Convenor of the ALAC Small Team for its Continuous Improvement Program (CIP)
Convenor of the ALAC Prioritization Small Team of the Operations, Budget and Finance Working Group (OFB-WG-PST)
Co-convenor of the APRALO Rules of Procedure Review Small Team
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ALAC Outreach Sub Committee (Chair to June 2013; Member to Current) and Member of the Webinar Planning Sub Committee
ALAC Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG) Member
ALAC Operations, Budget and Finances Working Group (OFB-WG) - Member and Lead on the current Prioritization of Recommendations Small Team
ALAC/At-Large ICANN Meetings Program Organizing Committees (Currently ICANN #73)
ALAC At-Large Metrics Sub-Committee (AM-SC) Chair/Convenor (noting this WG is recently re-activated to start a new program of work once Implementation planning and approval of relevant Recommendations from 2nd At-Large Review April/May 21)
APRALO Policy Forum - Member
APRALO Mentoring for Leadership TF pilot 2018, current 2021 program Mentor peer support and facilitation.
Recent / PAST:
Member of the IRP Community Representatives Group
ALAC Representative to the ICANN Planning Prioritization Process (Pilot in 2022 for 2023 and through to FY 2026)
CCWG WS2 Accountability and ATRT3 Implementation of Recommendation(s) Shepherd Teams
Nominating Committee Review Implementation Working Group - Co-Chair
GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP WG (Co-Chair of the PDP-WG and active member of all 5 WTs previous Co-Rapporteur for WT4, co-Lead for Sub Group C.)
Accountability and Transparency Review Team - ATRT 3 - Co-Chair
ALAC Budget and Finance Committee (Chair from 2007-2010; APRALO Rep 2006 to 2016 - Member 2016-2018: Participant 2019) my role in this area continues as an OFB-WG member. and current Lead of the Small Team working in the detailed Prioritization of Review Recommendations Implementation from the At-Large foci for eventual use by the ALAC in Community input and negotiations.
ALAC Review Implementation Working Group - ARIWG (Ex-Officio)
ATLAS III Planning Committee (Advisory/ ExOfficio)
Nominating Committee Review Working Party - Vice Chair
2nd ALAC/ At-Large Review Working Party - Co-Chair
Community Outreach Program (CROP) Community Regional Outreach Program (APRegional Member)
ALAC Review Team for projects relating to the Community Outreach Program (CROP) Community Regional Outreach Program (APRegional Member)
Cross Community WG - CCWG on ICANN Accountability Work Stream 2 (ALAC Member for APRegional and Rapporteur for WPs and WTs as well as an active member of all WTs)
ALAC ICANN Evolution (Member and rapporteur reporting to the SC from WS2- Accountability and GNSO new gTLDs Subsequent Procedures WTs)
Cross Community Committee on Accessibility (ModeratorCross Community WG - CWG on IANA Stewardship (ALAC Member for AP-Regional and Rapporteur for WPs and WTs)
Cross Community WG - Use of Country and Territory Names as TLDs
Cross Community WG - Geographic Regions Review (Member until 2013 and current Chair) then Chair)
Cross Community WG - CWG on IANA Stewardship (ALAC Member for AP-Regional and Rapporteur for WPs and WTs)
Cross Community WG - CCWG on ICANN Accountability Work Stream 1 (ALAC Member for APRegional and Rapporteur for WPs and WTs as well as an active member of all WTs)
Cross-Community Working Group on a Framework of Principles for Future CWGs - (CwgCWG-framework-principles)
ALAC Ad Hoc Accessibility Task Force (Chair)
GNSO Policy and Implementation Work Group
GNSO non-PDP Data & Metrics for Policy-Making Working Group (Co-Chair) (DMPM-WG)
ALAC Budget and Finance Committee (Chair from 2007-2010; APRALO Rep 2006 to Current)
ALAC At-Large Metrics Sub-Committee (AM-SC) Chair
ALAC Outreach Sub Committee (Chair to June 2013; Member to Current)
ALAC Review Team for projects relating to the Community Outreach Pilot Program (CROPP) Community Regional Outreach Pilot Program (FY14)
ALAC Ad Hoc WG on IANA Stewardship TransitionALAC
ATLAS II Return on Investment WG
ALAC ATLAS II Reporting Sub Committee
ATLAS II Implementation Taskforce Workspace (ATLAS II IT).
Recent / PAST:
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- ALAC ATLAS II Return on Investment WG
- ALAC ATLAS II Reporting Sub Committee
Cross Community WG - Implementation Advisory Group for Competition, Consumer Trust & Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT)
ccNSO/GAC Framework of Interpretation (FOI-WG)
APRALO Rules of Procedure Review (Chair)
Cross Community SO/AC WG on DNS Security and Stability Analysis (DSSA-WG)
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ccNSO/GAC Study Group on Use of Territory and Country Names (NTC-SG )
ALAC Technology Task Force (Founding Co-Chair)
ALAC Improvements Implementation Task Force (AII-TF) - Chair
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GNSO Vertical Integration Working Group (VI-WG)
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I recently had the honor of serving my fifth and final (2020-21) term as the ALAC Liaison to the GNSO, handing over the role on October 28th 2021, to the very capable @Justine Chew. My final and farewell report is linked below. This means my current leadership commitments entering 2022 are: CCWG WS2 Accountability and ATRT3 Implementation of Recommendation(s) Shepherd Teams; Nominating Committee Review Implementation Working Group - Vice-Chair; Convenor of the ALAC Prioritization Small Team of the Operations, Budget and Finance Working Group (OFB-WG-PST)
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Some not so recent history...
In June 2015 I was humbled and very proud to be awarded the second ICANN Multistakeholder Ethos Award along with Nii Quaynor. This award first established in 2014, "... was created to recognize those ICANN participants who have deeply invested in consensus-based solutions and the importance of ICANN’s multistakeholder model to Internet Governance."
Previously I had been appointed for three terms (2007-10) as the ALAC Chair, then a Vice-Chair of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) 2010-2011). I followed that role by my appointment to the ccNSO Council as the Liaison from the ALAC (2010 -2013) http://ccnso.icann.org/ until I joined the Nominating Committee Leadership Team in 2013 as the 'Chair-Elect'.
My term as the Chair of the 2014 ICANN Nominating Committee http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01oct13-en.htm was completed with the closing of the ICANN Public Meeting #51 in Los Angeles mid-Oct 2014.8 Up until the end of October 2015, at the ICANN 54 meeting in Dublin I served as the Associate Chair of the 2015 ICANN Nominating Committee, I have recently served as the Vice-Chair of the Nominating Committee Review Working Party, and as the Vice-Chair of the NomCom Review Implementation Working Group.
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Please also see my online Bio page pages https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryl-langdon-orr/ and http://about.me/cheryl.LangdonOrr
I am an active participant in the following current Internet-related 'policy' activities the W3C Credible Web Community Group and the IEEE Working Group P7011 News Site Trustworthiness Working Group
In October 2021 I was reappointed as a Director of Internet Australia (IA) (previously known a the Internet Society of Australia, ISOC-AU) an accredited ICANN At-Large Structure (ALS) since March 2005, having served in this capacity since 2001, I am also currently serving as Chair of Internet Australia, and act as their representative on the ISOC Chapters Advisory Council.
I was a founding member of the APrIGF Multistakeholder Group (MSG) pre-2005 and continue to serve there. Current Active roles in the Event Planning and Fellowship Sub Committees, Co-Convenor of the Program Sub Committee.
I am a founder in and currently, serve on the Australian Internet Governance Local initiative (NRI) called 'NetThing' carrying on from my previous activities with the prior event known as auIGF when serving on the auDA Board.
For ten (10) years( 2004 to 27 Oct 2014) I was an elected Demand Class Director (2002-14) of the .au Domain Name Administrator (auDA) for Country Code TLD .au (which was a Founding Member of the ICANN ccNSO), serving in several Board WG's and activities most recently in the Board Finance and Budget Sub Committee, and Chairing the Board Governance and Remuneration Sub Committee. After the review and renewal of the .au Domain Administration entity a new single Class of Membership has been created and I am now an Associate Member of auDA under this new model.
I served as a consumer advocate representative to the Australian Communications Compliance (CommCom) Advisory Committee an independent code monitoring (and reporting) body, that ensures that Carriage Service Providers (CSPs) in Australia are compliant with the Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code, appointed late 2012 through to 2018.
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More About Me:- In 1983, About me:- Thirty(ish) years ago I left my Post-Grad research and academic career as a tutor in Physiology physiology (continuing as a Teaching Associate at the Asia Pacific Research Institute of Macquarie University during the early 2000 years) to operate our family-owned micro-enterprise, Hovtek Pty. Limited. http://www.hovtek.com.au/
I was (and still am) am a telecommuter, (so all set when COVID-19 movement restrictions came in) 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.
From 1981 to 2018 I served as a working Director in our Family owned business Hovtek Pty., Ltd. activities of Hovtek included turnkey Analytical and Quality Assurance Laboratories and associated medical and laboratory products, training, and TQM services, in 1999 . Fourteen years ago we started a spin-off project called BuildersNet which was developed for the Building Construction and Demolition Industry from some of the TQM (ISO-9002, etc.,) activities of Hovtek; Ten 4 years ago later this became a stand-alone Australian Company, (Pty. Ltd.,) and relies totally relied wholly on the Internet to facilitate its operation.
Our clients in Australia are were Micro Businesses and SMEs - and internationally mainly SMEs and Government or Aid Funded bodies; We service serviced and communicate communicated with them almost exclusively online and the majority of our importation of raw materials and products as well as and export documentation bookings etc. is now , was handled that way. I am was also a Founding Director in several Associations and a NFP Not For Profit 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 work within ICANN with its remit as the coordinator of the the unique identifiers (addressing) across i.e. in the Naming, Numbering and Nomenclature within the Internet Ecosystem with its commitment to a multi-stakeholder, bottom-up consensus-driven policy development model is an essential part of this aim.
My focus and ongoing interests are not specifically technical but rather more consumer and end-user-focused. Until May 2009 when the Council was dissolved I represent ISOC-AU in the Australian Communication Alliance Consumer Advisory Council) See http://www.acif.com.au/ with a keen interest in Policy Development, Access, Outreach, and Regulatory issues.
I was an Individual Member (prior to before the formation of our Chapter) of ISOC and am a Director of of the Australian Internet Society Chapter Internet Australia (nee ISOC-AU See https://www.isoc-au.org.au/ since ) See Internet Australia since being elected in 2001 serving as Hon Treasurer from 2003, and currently serve as the Hon. Company Secretary on the executive and Vice Chair International and currently serve as Chair of the Internet Australia Board;... For more about my role and about the other Directors of ISOC-AU see httpInternet Australia see https://isoc-auinternet.org.au/Organisation/Dirs.htmlteam . As Internet Australia's Representative to the Internet Societies global Chapter Advisory Council I was elected in 2022 and reelected in 2023 to serve on its Steering Committee and serve in the role of Chair.
I am a Member member of auDA, having been re-elected as a Board Member for a fifth term of office in the Demand Class (User Interests) stakeholder category in October 2012. See http://www.auda.org.au/board/members/ having , the .au Domain Name administrator, and was a Board Member from 2002 to 2014, having previously worked on several auDA Policy Advisory Panels between 2000 and 2004, and as the Chair of the Domain Name Industry Code of Practice Committee.
In 2008 and 2009 in addition to my work within APRALO and ALAC and specifically within the arena of communications consumer advocacy in Australia I was instrumental in the formation of a new National peak body to act as a co-ordinated coordinated voice of communications consumers Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) See http://www.accan.org.au/
I am also a member of several organisations organizations and associations including Women Physical Disability Council of NSW https://www.pdcnsw.org.au/; Women On Boards http://www.womenonboards.org.au/ and www.womenonboards.co.uk ; Women in the Boardroom http://womenintheboardroom.com/ ; the TED community http://www.ted.com/profiles and the International Sustainable Development Resource Centre, Geneva http://isd-rc.ning.com/; and as an individual and corporate representative in ACCAN http://www.accan.org.au/ additionally I have previously had active roles and engagement in Australian Government Policy Development includes active participation in Govt 2.0 http://www.gov2.com.au/ ; Public Sphere activities specifically in Australia http://www.katelundy.com.au/category/campaigns/publicsphere/ (Archived); and continue to serve as a consumer advocate representative to the Australian Communications Compliance (CommCom) Advisory Committee a new independent code monitoring (and reporting) body, that is to ensure that Carriage Service Providers (CSPs) in Australia are compliant with the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) Code, since appointment in late 2012.
In addition to being:-
- a supporter and an active member of the NSW Chapter of Females in Information Technology and Telecommunications (FITT) http://www.fitt.org.au/.
Serving as the Associate Chair in 2015 and the Chair of the 2014 ICANN Nominating Committee http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01oct13-en.htm
the 2013 NomCom Chair-Elect." until end November 2013 and the ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO (2010 -2013) http://ccnso.icann.org/. Previously she served as a Vice Chair of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) 2010-2011), after three terms (2007-10) as the ALAC Chair.
representative of ISOC-AU as an ICANN accredited At-Large Structure (ALS) in ICANN's Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO) and also as an APRALO representative to the ALAC, (2007 - 2011) within ICANNs At-Large Community
appointed to serve on the 1st Affirmation of Commitments Review Team for ICANN looking at Accountability and Transparency. http://icann.org/en/reviews/affirmation/review-1-en.htm;
- many STEM and STEAM initiatives.
- still excited about capacity building and training opportunities (leading or engaging in them
) - a hands-on grandmother of three (18 y,15y, and 8y) making as sure as I can, that they grow up bold, brave, and capable in the real and virtual worlds they will need to live in.
- a huge fan of anything to do with dragons.on a number of Working Groups, Work Teams and Task Forces
Contact
Email: * cheryl at hovtek.com.au & langdonorr at langdonorr at gmail.com
Skype: cheryl.langdon.orr
Twitter: @clo3
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