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Grants Evaluation Committee Members

Gerard Ross


Gerard Ross photoGerard is the Senior Communications Manager for the Internet Society (ISOC).

Gerard is an experienced technical communicator, with a long history of involvement in the Internet community. He is currently responsible for many aspects of ISOC's internal and external communication activities, allowing him to keep in touch with developments in the Internet community around the world, especially within ISOC's Chapter network. Apart from representing ISOC on the ISIF programme, Gerard is also a committee member of the ISOC Community Grants Program.

Previously, Gerard worked for the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) in a variety of communication roles over an eight-year period. In that time, he worked extensively with the Asia Pacific Internet community. From 2003-2007, he represented APNIC on the grants committee of the Pan Asia R&D ICT Grants program, a predecessor to the ISIF program.

Before becoming involved with the Internet, Gerard worked in the legal profession, tertiary education, and arts administration. He holds Bachelor degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Queensland and a Graduate Diploma in Communications from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Rajnesh Singh


Rajnesh Singh photoRajnesh joined the Internet Society in 2008 as Regional Manager for South and Southeast Asia.

Before joining ISOC, Rajnesh held executive management roles, primarily in the technology sector, and has consulted on communications and power infrastructure, project management, and business strategy for medium to large companies and organizations in the Asia Pacific region. He has also held advisory roles across multiple sectors, ranging from governmental to sporting organizations and the private sector.

Rajnesh has worked extensively with the Asia Pacific Internet community, and has held several leadership roles, including Chair of ICANN's Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO), Chair of the Pacific Islands Chapter of ISOC (PICISOC), and the IPv6 Forum. He has worked extensively on ICT policy, training, and capacity building in the region and has been active in the Internet Governance Forum since its inaugural meeting. His current areas of interest are ICT Policy in Developing and Emerging Economies, Internet evolution, and Effective Business Strategies for Developing Markets. Rajnesh speaks multiple languages including English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Fijian, and some French.

Phet Sayo


Phet Sayo photoPhet Sayo is a Senior Programme Officer with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), working within the PAN Asia Networking program initiative, which supports research and social investments in the areas where information and communications technology and development issues intersect.

For the last decade, Phet has worked in Southeast and South Asia on a variety of issues relating to governance and policies, capacity building, intellectual property rights, alternative and innovation models, within the information society and development frame.

Phet was a long-standing grants and steering committee member of the precursor small grants program of ISIF.

Richard Fuchs


Richard Fuchs photoRich Fuchs established North America’s first system of rural telecentres and online services in 1988 in his role as CEO of the Enterprise Network Inc., a Crown Corporation in Newfoundland, Canada, where he also served as the Vice President of Rural Development. His company, Futureworks Inc. introduced telecentres and early rural ICT applications in Africa, Asia and the Americas. In 2000 Futureworks Inc. was awarded the Canadian Government’s prestigious export excellence award for this work.

In 2001 Rich was recruited to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa, Canada. As IDRC’s first Director of ICT for Development, Rich generated $70 million in new external financing and led the establishment of three major ICT4D, not-for-profit, start-ups including, the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas, Connectivity Africa and Telecentre.org. Telecentre.org is a major global support network for telecentre activists. It has received social investment from IDRC, Microsoft Community Affairs, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Rich also led the successful re-invention of IDRC’s knowledge management processes that realigned how the organization learns from its development projects which then led to the establishment of IDRC’s Annual Learning Forum. He was an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland for 17 years and also served as the Chair and Member of Canada’s Network Centres of Excellence Awards Selection Committee from 1998 to 2001.

In late 2006, Rich moved to Singapore where he serves as IDRC’s Regional Director of Southeast and East Asia.

Ma Yan


Ma Yan photoProf. Ma Yan has been an Executive Committee member of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) since 1994, building the largest IP network for the education and academic community in China. Recently, Yan has been actively involved in the design and implementation of CNGI/CERNET2, the IPv6-based next generation CERNET. Yan has also been in charge of the operation of the North China regional network of CERNET, which connects universities in Beijing, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia.

Yan is deputy director of the Network Information Center of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). His responsibility is for the planning, construction, and operation of the campus computer network of BUPT.

Yan is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of BUPT and has led several national key technology research projects, including network management, mobile and wireless network, IPv6, multimedia transmission, and distance learning. Yan has been teaching and doing research in the field of computer networking and telecommunications since 1982. Yan has done consulting work for telecoms in China for many years.

Yan is also very active in Internet-related international events. Yan was the convenor of APEC TEL HRDSG (Human Resource Development Steering Group) during 2000-2001, and convenor of APEC TEL DSG (Information and Telecommunications Steering Group) during 2004-2008. In 2004, Yan was a Grants Selection Committee member of the PAN Asia ICT R&D program and is now an Executive Committee member of APNIC, serving a two-year period from 2008 to 2010.

Paul Wilson


Paul Wilson photoPaul Wilson was appointed as Director General of APNIC in August 1998, bringing with him some ten years of technical and business experience in the Internet industry.

In 1989, Paul became a founding staff member as Technical Director, and later (in 1992) as Chief Executive Officer at Pegasus Networks, the first private ISP to be established in Australia. During a period of eight years with Pegasus, he oversaw the successful growth of the company as a renowned service provider in Australia. During this time he also worked on Internet projects in many developing countries and as a consultant to the United Nations and other international agencies.

Since 1994 Paul has worked with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on their Pan-Asia Networking (PAN) Programme, in support of PAN projects in Mongolia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, PNG, and China. As a primary consultant on Internet projects, he helped to introduce Internet services for the first time in several of these countries.

APNIC is the Regional Internet Address Registry for the Asia Pacific, administering IP addresses and related resources which are fundamental to the growth and stability of the Internet. It is one of only five such organisations operating in the world today. Since Paul joined APNIC in 1998, the APNIC Secretariat has grown from 6 staff to 55 staff, and now serves over 1,600 of the largest ISPs in the Asia Pacific region.

In 2000, Paul was inducted into the Australian Internet Hall of Fame, in recognition of his contributions to the development of the Internet.

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