About Jacqueline A. Morris
Written by Jacqueline A. Morris   
Saturday, 01 April 2006

Jacqueline Morris is a web developer & Internet business consultant from Trinidad and Tobago.

She is very involved in Internet Governance issues, sitting as a member of ALAC (ICANN 's At Large Advisory Committee) from 2005 to 2007, and as Chair of that committee in 2007; having been involved in the WSIS and as a member of the WGIG. She is also involved in the Caribbean participation in these international fora, having recently assisted in the formation of the LACRALO - ICANN's first Regional End-User Organisation.

In Trinidad, she works for Media 21 Limited -  a multimedia production house. As a project manager, she works on IP based video projects, such as digital signage and streaaming projects, as well as computerised video projects - moving to wireless and hard-drive based equipment.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 September 2007 )
 
ALAC and the RALOs vs the Internet Elite?
Written by Jacqueline A. Morris   
Tuesday, 17 April 2007

There's been a lot of discussion on the weaknesses of the current structure for individual participation in ICANN. I wrote a pretty long response via email on this topic, and decided to post it here as well.

Some history:

In 2000, ICANN held "global" elections for Board seats. I put global in quotes, because the elections were not advertised in Trinidad and Tobago, and even though we only have 1.3 million people, we are a country, and need to be included in any "global" event. So LAC had a representative on the Baord, but the Caribbean didn't geet a chance to vote, so (even though he 's a wonderful person) he can't have been representative of us.

Since  then, the structure is indirect, but designed to be able to reach out more globally. there are 5 regions, and we've created 4 (so far) regional organisations that consist of groups involved with individual users in the region. The regional organisations elect 2 reps each to the Committee. The Committee currently appoints a non-voting liaison to the Baord.  Some people, especially in North america, feel that ths strructure is worthless and powerless, and want to go back to direct Internet-based elections. Some of us disagree. I believe that wth more representative global participation, we can prove that we deserve to choose Board members, and I think that as the organisation gets larger and more gobal, we'll get there.

So - that's the intro. 

For the rant - click the read more link...

Last Updated ( Monday, 04 June 2007 )
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ALAC Chair election statement
Written by Jacqueline A. Morris   
Friday, 08 December 2006

I recently ran unsuccessfully for the Chair of ICANN ALAC. I did this via remote participation in the Sao Paulo meeting, as I could not attend owing to my father's car accident. (See updates on Daddy Blog )

So here - I'm posting my email candidacy statement. 

Last Updated ( Monday, 04 June 2007 )
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