About Me
Cheryl has recently been appointed as the Chair of the 2014 ICANN Nominating Committee http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-01oct13-en.htm and continues 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.
She continues in the role of 2013 NomCom Chair-Elect." until end November 2013 and during 2012-13 Cheryl served as 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.
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 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; Within the ICANN Community Cheryl has served on a number of Working Groups, Work Teams and Task Forces (listed and linked below. My ALAC / At-Large Statement of Interest (SOI) is found here Cheryl Langdon-Orr SOI and my 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:
GNSO Policy and Implementation Work Group
GNSO Metrics and Reporting Work Group Charter (metrep-wg) Drafting Team
ALAC Budget and Finance Committee ( Chair from 2007-2010; APRALO Rep 2006 to Current)
ccNSO/GAC Framework of Interpretation (FOI-WG)
ALAC At-Large Metrics Sub-Committee (AM-SC)
ALAC Outreach Sub Committee (Chair to June 2013; Member to Current)
APRALO Rules of Procedure Review (Interim Chair)
PAST:
Cross Community SO/AC WG on DNS Security and Stability Analysis (DSSA-WG)
GNSO Policy and Implementation Work Group Charter Drafting Team
ccNSO/GAC Study Group on Use of Territory and Country Names (NTC-SG )
ALAC Improvements Implementation Task Force (AII-TF) - Chair
ALAC Rules of Procedure Review (ROPR-WG) - Chair
ALAC New gTLDs WG
GNSO (Charter endorsed by and representation from ALAC) Consumer Metrics Project (ConsumerCCI-WG)
Joint SO/AC WG on New gTLD Applicant Support (JAS-WG)
ccNSO Cross Community SO/AC WG on IDNccTLD Fast-track
GNSO Policy Process Steering Committee (PPSC) (ALAC liaison alternate)
GNSO Policy Process Steering Committee Policy Development Process Work Team (PDP-WT)
GNSO Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery PDP Working Group (PEDNR)
GNSO Registrar Accreditation Agreement Working Group (RAA) (Group a & Group b)
GNSO Vertical Integration Working Group (VI-WG)
About me:- Thirty(ish) years ago I left my Post-Grad research and career as a tutor in Physiology (continuing as 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 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. Fourteen years ago we started a spin off project called BuildersNet which was developed from some of the TQM (ISO-9002 etc.,) activities of Hovtek; Ten years ago this became a stand alone Australian Company, (Pty. Ltd.,) and 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 work within ICANN with its remit as the coordinator of 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 the formation of our Chapter) of ISOC and am a Director of ISOC-AU See https://www.isoc-au.org.au/ since being elected in 2001 serving as Hon Treasurer from 2003, and currently serve as the Hon. Company Secretary on the executive... For more about my role and about the other Directors of ISOC-AU see http://isoc-au.org.au/Organisation/Dirs.html
I am a Member of auDA, having been re-elected as a Board Member for my forth term of office in the Demand Class (User Interests) stakeholder category in October 2010 for a 4th 2 year term. See http://www.auda.org.au/board/members/ having previously I have 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 voice of communications consumers Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) See http://www.accan.org.au/
I am also a member of several organisations and associations including 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/
Current focus 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/ and NSW Public Sphere http://www.pennysharpe.com/nswsphere
In addition to being:-
- an active member of the NSW Chapter of Females in Information Technology and Telecommunications (FITT) http://www.fitt.org.au/.
- a Founder Member and Executive Committee Member of the NSW Trade efficiency Association. (NSWTEA)
- a guest lecturer at several institutions, and Teaching Fellow at Macquarie University Asia Pacific Research Institute (APRIM)
Contact
Email: * cheryl at hovtek.com.au & langdonorr at gmail.com
Skype: cheryl.langdon.orr
Twitter: clo3
