2000-09-06

Johannes Kuo-huie CHIANG Questionnaire

  1.    Name: Johannes Kuo-huie CHIANG

  2.    Country of citizenship: Taiwan ROC

  3.    E-mail address:  chi@mis.nccu.edu.tw 

  4.    URL:   http://www.myicann.net/chiang (from 9, September, 2000 on)
Please reference my page by the official candidate pages of ICANN.

5.      Current professional position (so):
  1.    Associate Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, National Cheng-Chi
        University, Taipei, Research areas: Internet and Business Data Communication, Internet Economics
        and Ecology, Network-centric Computing for MIS, Hypertext and CSCW, Digital Library and Museum.
        1994 - now
  2.    Adjunct Chief Executive Officer in charge of the Internet Open University and the Electronic-Business
        Learning Program for SMEs, Research and Learning Center of SMEs Northern Taiwan (NSME),
        College of Commerce, NCCU, Taipei, 1996 - now

6.      Past professional positions/accomplishment:
  1.    Research Staff and Project Executive in charge of an EU's ESPRIT project and German BMFT FG6
        (Research Group 6 of Federal Ministry of Research and Technology), Aachener Demonstration Center
        for Integrated Technologies (ADITEC) at the RWTH Aachen, Germany. 1993 ? 1994
  2.    Associate Researcher in charge of DFG projects in the areas of TQM and IT, WZL of the
        Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University (RWTH) of Aachen, Germany. 1988 ? 1992
  3.    Associate Researcher and Project Leader in charge of projects of Measurement Systems and Data
        Communication, Department of Optoelectronics and Metrology, MIRL/ITRI, ROC. 1984 ? 1986
  4.    Visiting Scholar on the Fraunhoefer Institute at the RWTH Aachen, Research Fields: Measurement
        Data Processing and Communication, Robotics. Also short-term visiting on the University of
        Wisconsin Madison and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute of Technology, USA. 1983 ? 1984
  5.    Associate Researcher in the fields of Robotics, CNC and Data Communication, Department of
        Automation and Control Engineering, MIRL/ITRI, ROC. 1981 ? 1983

7.      Other comments you would like to state:
  I am in a neutral position to ICANN-related interests, neither pro nor against them. I am employed by the
  NCCU as a professor and play a volunteer role of consultant to research institutions, enterprises and
  government agencies except the Directorate General of Telecom. Administration Taiwan. Hence, there is no
  direct and indirect relation between my career and ICANN-related interests.
  I have no investment interests in any kinds of ICANN-related businesses, e.g. in any ISP/ASP.
  I have no official positions in ICANN-related businesses or organization, e.g. in TWNIC.
  I am not an official of a national government or a multinational entity established by treaty or other
  agreement between national governments, such as an elected official or employee of a government or
  multinational entity. I am free to take independent votes and form independent positions, without
  interference or control by any employer, client, or other group that I am affiliated with.

8.  Do you consider yourself a representative of user, technical, business, public interest, academic,
    governmental, intellectual property, or other interests? (List all that apply)

I consider myself a representative of user, technical, business, public interests, academic and intellectual
property. I am not an officer or employee of any governmental body. Nevertheless, I know the requirements
from governmental side based on my consultation work on government agencies.

9.  What do you hope to contribute to the ICANN Board? And what are the actual plans?

As a professor, adjunct Chief Policy Officer of NSME Center on NCCU and IT consultant for government
agencies and enterprises, I've evolved with many IT projects that related to Internet infrastructure,
organizational policies and Internet Economics. I'd like to contribute my knowledge and time-sharing with
the others. That will be help from information protocol point of view, from domain name registration policy
point of view, from economic point of view and so on.

I am especially interesting in the following issues in relation to the ICANN Board:
1.      To rationalize the Domain Name costs
2.      To increase the new gTLD
3.      To support the Multilingual Domain Name Systems
4.      To identify and introduce the next-generation Internet Protocols such as IP
5.      To introduce preventive thinking into UDRP to avoid potential confrontations in relation to DNS
6.      To enhance the outreach of At-Large membership in the AAP region
7.      To realize a structured Internet Civil Forum

If elected, I will do my best to reflect and fulfill the requirements of AAP Internet citizens in joint decision
making within the ICANN Board, but will not pursue a narrow-minded governance of the Internet affairs.
Currently, I have begun to call a team of young fellows from Asia/Australian/Pacific for studying the
requirements on Internet in different territories. My focus for an Internet world aims not only at an
efficient communication instrument, but will be more at a fair sharing of Internet resources. Starting from
this team, I will continuously contact the Internet users in our region, and take action to facilitate Internet
access for those who live in AAP region, particularly for those who can not use Internet until now. Only
when we can make the Internet access easy and free, we can then enhance the outreach and awareness of
ICANN At-Large membership. And, a fair and active Internet Information Village can then be reached.

10.  What do you hope to contribute to the global Internet society as an ICANN representative. And what
     will be the actual plan?

I am an Internet citizen with integrity and over-20-year hard working for internet-related technologies and
for relevant innovative technology management. For both areas, I have conducted various research works
drawing on scientific, economic and cultural perspectives as well as engaged in the practices with
engineering, business and social considerations. I am not only teaching in the universities but also enjoying
in guiding labors, SME employees, officers and children into the Internet world. As a consultant for
government agencies, I have intensive experiences in the Next Generation Internet Architecture design and
applications. Based on a diversity of experiences, I am eager to contribute to a transparent, effective and
innovative ICANN. Thereafter, I believe, that the policy and decision making of the ICANN Director Board
should lead to the following as:

1.      To develop the policy and strategies towards the Global Information Village
2.      To ensure no barriers to the free Internet access
3.      To remedy the Digital Gap between regions, countries and areas
4.      To develop preventive strategies and methods for resolving conflicts related to DNS
5.      To investigate next-generation IP
6.      To enhance the guiding values such as democracy, transparency, bottom-up process, equal rights,
        decentralization, privacy, minimal cost and equity

I am eager to contribute and have rich working experiences in national and international projects so that I
am capable to maintain good relationship with organizations from other regions, particularly with those
from Europe and America. This is naturally a plus for an Asia/Australian/Pacific representative to
communicate and achieve supports from others in the ICANN Director Board.

11.     Other comments such as self-expression

Particularly relevant to leadership and policy-level roles, I have extensive experiences in management of
large-scale projects. The following exemplifies any credential in this aspect:
1.      I am the co-founder and adjunct Chief Policy Officer of the NSME Center facing over million SME
        employees in Northern Taiwan;
2.      I am the co-founder and since recent one of the leaders of the E-Business Project by Ministry of
        Economics in which we are investigating and evaluating the methods Taiwanese information industry
        has adopted for their E-Business.
3.      I have initiated, proposed and in the first phase executed an ESPRIT project that is of very large scale
        and embraces 5 organisations (e.g. Mercedes Benz and Rover) from 3 countries. This project was
        evaluated by CEC as the first 1% of ca. 3000 projects in 1993;
4.      I was the co-founder and project leader of the German BMFT FG 6 that is a research affiliation of 10
        university institutes and a company.
        For such projects, I have to coordinate the work-packages of the project partners, to plan the budget and
        cost breakdown, to develop the exploitation and dissemination plan, and to carry out strategic suggestions
        for the relevant government agencies.

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