<div dir="ltr">Thanks Yannis for your continued hard work!<div><br></div><div style>Here is my version:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>Mr. Izumi Aizu, </div>
<div style>Tokyo, Japan - Senior Research Fellow & Professor , Institute for InfoSocinomics, Tama University</div><div style><p class=""><span lang="EN-US">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 <i>pro bono</i> Platform (iSPP), a coordination body for disaster relief
works using ICT.</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p class=""><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p class="">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.</p>
<p class="">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.</p>
<p class="">His recent papers include “Beyond Network
Neutrality” (<i>Telecommunication Journal of
Australia</i>, 2009) and Japan Chapter at <i>Global
Information Society Watch</i> (APC) under the theme of Content Regulation,
Green ICT and Disaster and the use of ICT in 2009, 2010, 2011 respectively.<br></p></div><div style>END</div><div style><br></div></div>
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