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| Name | Divina Frau-Meigs |
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| Nationality | French |
| Country of Residence | France |
| Nominated by | self nomination |
| Endorsed by The education, academia and research taskforce | Dear Avri
As founding member of the education, academia and research coalition, I asked the members of the coalition to officially support the nomination of Divina Frau-Meigs at the IGF MAG. The response has been unanimously positive and I hope it satisifes you fully. Please make sure it appears in the official site of the nomination AND in any other messages you send, as president of the noncom.
Best
Dr. Diego Levis (Buenos Aires. Argentina) |
| Endorsed by FreeW3 | |
| Nationality | French |
| Country of Residence | France |
| Gender | Female |
| Short Bio relevant to Internet Governance | With regards to WSIS and Internet Governance, Divina Frau-Meigs has been a prominent expert for years, both as an outstanding academic and as a committed civil society member, in the field of media, ICTs and their implication for education and research. She has followed the WSIS process from the very beginning. As part of the preliminary consultation with Unesco, she drafted the report for the online consultation of civil society and has been active in drafting ever since. She has been the focal point for the education family in phase 1 and has reorganized it as a taskforce in phase 2. During the prepcoms he has been an active moderator, she has been a speaker in a number of WSIS related regional event (Tokyo, St-Petersburg, Paris,) and at the Summit she has been a speaker in the Official High Level Round Tables.
She has written extensively about ICTs, media and Internet governance and regulation in leading journals (Médiamorphoses, Tocqueville, European Journal of Communication, Š) and has published a variety of chapters in books related to WSIS (Unesco-documentation française, Boell Foundation Book, UN-ICT taskforce book).
Divina Frau-Meigs also has expertise in international high level conferences and the kind of negotiations that they entail. She has worked in numerous UN conferences (UNESCO, ITU, WIPO). She is an expert for e-learning and for information society programmes for the European Union (Information Society division), the council of Europe (Human rights division) and Unesco (information division). As vice-president of IAMCR, a worldwide NGO with consultative status within the UN, she has been an observer and an expert for the Convention on Cultural Diversity and such UN programmes as as IPDC (media for development) and IFAP (information for all). She has also co-founded a new NGO, MENTOR, to deal with international media education and e-learning issues.
Divina Frau-Meigs stands for an Internet which is open for all, promotes human rights and sustainable development ; she strongly believes in a governance model of bottom-up policy development and multi-stakeholderism. She has never failed to put Internet Governance in the broader context of Information Society issues, raised by WSIS, especially education, research, cultural diversity, free enabling environments, Š The various statements of the education taskforce published on the ITU website testify to the level of commitment and of analysis and to the platform for action that she proposes to follow up on with IGF.
Most importantly from the point of view of the education taskforce and in the interest of the follow-up on the WSIS process, Divina Frau-Meigs has been a reliable resource person. She has made herself available many times in the two phases of WSIS and devoted her full attention to the process indefatigably. She has always made sure information was disseminated in a variety of languages and that equity and transparency in the process have been respected. As a member of the CivilSociety bureau, she also has tried to solve disputes among members of the various groups and has worked towards the establishment of negotiated consensus. |
| Why the (self)nominee is a good choice for the IGF | Added to her expertise, two additional qualities designate her as a good choice for civil society in IGF: the capacity to serve as a relay and an interface to the rest of civil society at large; the capacity to bring the education and research voice to the table of negotiations with the nation-states and other entities. She has proved in the past that she could handle the work-load implied and she should be able to do it in the future. |
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| Comments | In relation to bio:
Divina Frau-Meigs is professor of media sociology at the Université Paris 3-Sorbonne, France. With degrees from the Sorbonne University, Stanford University and the Annenberg School for Communications (University of Pennsylvania), she is a specialist of media and information technologies in English-speaking countries. She is also a research associate with CNRS (Social Uses of Technology). Her other activities include being editor-in-chief of Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines (RFEA) and a member of the editorial board of MédiaMorphoses (INA-PUF).
She has published extensively in the areas of media content (Jeunes, Médias, Violences, Economica, 2003), the technologies and sub-cultures of the screen (Médias et Technologie: l¹exemple des Etats-Unis, Ellipses, 2001) and the relationship between media and technologies (Du journalisme en démocratie, DeBoeck, 2005). She is currently working on issues of cultural diversity, internet governance and digital gatekeepers. Her other research interests have made her an expert with Unesco and the European Community on issues of media and ICT regulation, self-regulation as well as media education and digital literacy.
She has served as vice-president for international affairs on the boards of Société Française des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication (SFSIC) and of the European Consortium for Communications Research (ECCR). She is currently vice-president of the International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR); she is also a founding member and vice-president of ENTOR, a global NGO for Media and ICT education. She participates in the WSIS process as focal point for the ³education, academia and research² taskforce. |
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