Nurani Nimpuno selected to WG on IGF improvement

At the end of the five year mandate of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the vice chair to the CSTD was tasked to put together a working group to review, compile and suggest improvements to the IGF. At the CSTD inter-sessional panel which took place on 17 December, the composition of the working group was decided.

The working group is composed of twenty-two Members States, plus five representatives each from civil society; the business sector; academia and the technical community; and intergovernmental organisations. 

Nurani Nimpuno was selected as one of five representatives of the stakeholder group the technical and academic community. 

The five representatives from the Internet technical and academic community are:

• Ms Constance Bommelaer, Senior Manager, Strategic Global Engagement, Internet Society
• Ms Samantha Dickinson, Senior Policy Specialist, APNIC Pty Ltd
• Mr Baher Esmat, Manager, Regional Relations - Middle East "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Cairo, Egypt
• Ms Nurani Nimpuno, Outreach & Communications Manager, Netnod (Autonomica)
• Mr Oscar Robles-Garay, General Director for NIC México, LACNIC Board of Directors (Regional IP Registry for Latin American and Caribbean region)