[Rigf_program] Listing of members of Program Committee (MSG) on the website

[Izumi AIZU]

Thanks Yannis for your continued hard work!

Here is my version:



Mr. Izumi Aizu,
Tokyo, Japan -  Senior Research Fellow & Professor ,   Institute for
InfoSocinomics, Tama University

Izumi Aizu is Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Institute for
InfoSocinomics, Kumon Center, Tama University in Tokyo and Deputy Director
at the Institute for HyperNetwork Society in Oita, Japan. He is also
Co-Chairperson of Information Support *pro bono* Platform (iSPP), a
coordination body for disaster relief works using ICT.

Izumi promoted the use of PC based network and the Internet since 1980s. In
1997, he founded Asia Network Research in Malaysia, focusing on societal
aspects of the Internet, global governance and digital divide. In April
2000, he moved back to Tokyo. He represented Japanese NPO under the
government’s requests at the Digital Opportunity Task Force from 2000 to
2002.

He has been participating in ICANN, WSIS and IGF as a member of the Civil
Society. He served as the Co-Coordinator of the Civil Society Internet
Governance Caucus (IGC) from 2010 till 2012. He was also a member of the
Working Group on IGF Improvement hosted by CSTD during the same period. He
was also selected as a member of IGF Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG)
in 2012.

In 2004 he co-founded Internet Governance Task Force (IGTF) of Japan to
engage in the debate on Internet Governance in the WSIS Working Group on
Internet Governance.

In 2011, after the earthquake in Japan, he joined the relief works using
ICTs and started the Information Support pro bono Platform, iSPP, a
not-for-profit organization. Mr. Aizu led a research project on “How people
behaved with ICT”  and published a detailed statistical report and also
wrote a book published in Mar, 2012.

His recent papers include “Beyond Network Neutrality” (*Telecommunication
Journal of Australia*, 2009) and Japan Chapter at *Global Information
Society Watch* (APC) under the theme of Content Regulation, Green ICT and
Disaster and the use of ICT in 2009, 2010, 2011 respectively.
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