About the Internet Society 

Board of Trustees

2003 Board Election

Candidates

Candidate Profile: Pindar Wong

pindar@hk.super.net

Pindar Wong is Chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd., a discreet Internet infrastructure consultancy. Since co-founding Hong Kong's first licensed Internet Service Provider (ISP) in 1993, Pindar has remained actively involved with helping to develop and promote the Internet in the Asia Pacific region.

Currently, he is interested in the stability and evolution of the Domain Name System (DNS), the development of internet exchange points, the promotion of rural networking and encouraging internet entreprenuership for the youth. He serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Business Domain for the ITU 's Telecom World 2003 (http://www.itu.int/WORLD2003/) and on the Steering Committee for the Youth Forum (http://www.itu.int/WORLD2003/forum/youth/index.html). He also serves on the technical advisory board of the Packet Clearing House (http://www.pch.net/ ), the international advisory boards of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (http://www.apdip.net/), the advisory board of CDT's Global Internet Policy Initiative (http://www.gipiproject.org/) and the Asia Pacific Networking Group (http://www.apng.org ), the editorial advisory board of Cisco System's Internet Protocol Journal (http://www.cisco.com/ipj /). Pindar is also an Associate member of Orbicom Network - the international network of UNESCO
Chairs in Communications ( http://www.orbicom.uqam.ca/ )

Previously, he has served as Chairman of the Asia Pacific Internet Association (http://www.apia.org), the Executive Committee Chairman of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (http://www.apricot.net), the alternate chair of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (http://www.apnic.net). He was appointed by the Internet Architecture Board to the Policy Oversight Committee and served as the Vice Chairman of ICANN's Board of Directors and the At Large Study Committee.

Prior to his involvement in commercial Internet services, he was a doctoral candidate and Sir Edward Youde research fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before gaining his doctoral fellowship, Mr. Wong was briefly a banker after graduating with first class honors in computing science from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

His interests included photography and the Internet.