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About Jacqueline A. Morris |
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Written by Jacqueline A. Morris
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Saturday, 01 April 2006 |
Jacqueline A. Morris lives and works in Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to teaching in the field of Educational Technology at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, Faculty of Education, she is very active in the fields of Internet technology, Internet Governance and Caribbean ICT issues.
She was an appointed member of ALAC (ICANN 's At Large Advisory Committee) from 2005 to 2007, and was Chair of that committee in 2007. Under her chairmanship, the ALAC successfully created 5 regional end-user organisations to ensure that ICANN's policies were influenced by the views of the global community of Internet end users, and submitted several policy commentaries and one major policy initiative to ICANN, as well as participated in the IGF in Rio, facilitating a workshop on IDNs. Her current involvement is as the At Large's liaison to the ccNSO at ICANN.
She was very involved in the WSIS as a member of the WSIS Gender Caucus and was appointed a member of the WGIG. She is also very 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 last worked for Media 21 Limited - a multimedia production and live video projection firm- and remains involved on a freelance basis. Her main area of expertise there was IP based video projects, such as digital signage and streaaming projects, as well as computerised video projects - moving the organisation to wireless and hard-drive based equipment. She also directs live concert video productions, and has worked with names like John Legend, Rihanna, Lionel Richie, Ne Yo, Beenie Man, and Machel Montano among others.
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