Wolfgang Kleinwaechter
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Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation at the Department for Media and Information Sciences of the University of Aarhus / Denmark http://www.internet2008.fr/spip.php?article435
He has studied Communication, International Law and International Relations at the University of Leipzig. His academic teaching experiences include University of Tampere,, American University in Washington, University of Oerebro, Moscow State University and Heilbronn Business School.
He was involved in numerous EU projects. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Chairman of the Management Board of the “Inter-Regional Information Society Initiative” (IRISI) of the European Commission in Brussels and coordinated the regional “Saxonian Information Initiative” (SII) for the local government of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. He was a member of FP 5 and FP 6 projects like ETHOS, IMAGINE and TELECITIES. Since 1997 he worked as an evaluator for various EU programs and chaired the Safer Internet Action Plan (SIAP) project evaluation team in 2006. Currently he is a partner in the FP 7 project “Next Generation Internet/NGI” and member of the 2008 SIAP Evaluation team.
He is involved in Internet Governance issues since the mid 1990s and deeply involved in ICANN where he served in various positions, just recently as the Vice Chair of the Nomination Committee (NomCom). He is founder and chair of the “European Summer School on Internet Governance” (EURO-SSIG) and the ICANN Studienkreis. He is also the co-founder of the “Global Internet Governance Academic Network” (GIGANET).
In the WSIS process he was a member of the Civil Society Bureau and co-chaired the Internet Governance Caucus 2002/2003. He was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and serves since as “Special Adviser” to the Chair of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). He is also a member of the “Panel of High Level Advisers” of the “Global Alliance for ICT and Development”, the follow up of the UN ICT Task Force.
He is a member of the International Council of the “International Association for Media and Communication Research” (IAMCR) and served as the president of the IAMCR Law Section in 1988/1998 and 2004/2008.
He was Member of the Programme Committee for INET 2002, Internet Society, Washington D.C. and a Key-Note Speaker, Panelist, Moderator and Rapporteur of numerous international conferences on the Information Society, Information Law and Internet Governance, inter alia UN, ITU, EU, Council of Europe, OECD, UNESCO, UNICTTF, Global Business Dialogue on eCommerce. PTC and others.
His research work includes more than 100 international publications, including 5 books, on issues of Broadcasting Legislation, Global Information Society, Internet Governance and WSIS. Recent articles has been published in “Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review”, “Development”, ”Telecommunication Policy”, “info” and “Gazette”. His three latest books has been “The World Summit on the Information Society : From the Past into the Future”, UNICTTF, New York 2005 (with Daniel Stauffacher), “Power and Money in Cyberspace : How WSIS Frames the Future of the Information Age” (Heise Publisher 2004 / in German) and “The Power of Ideas : Internet Governance in a Global Multistakeholder Environment” (Berlin 2007). He served also a member of several advisory boards of scientific journals, including “Transnational Data and Communication Report”, Computer Law and Security Report, Communications Law : The Journal of Computer, Media and Telecommunication Law” and “Gazette”.
