Chris Tshimanga SOI (Old)

Chris Tshimanga - Individual

18 January 2011

Current vocation, employer and position

• Strategy development and business orientated
• Telkom SA (Incumbent Telecommunication company in South Africa)
• Manager and leading team for Billing section/ IT service, responsible for managing a team on billing deliverable process. OSS/BSS project deployment specialist.

2. Type of work performed in 1 above

I lead a team which provides a cohesive development support in generating customer invoices for their call and service usages on a flexible billing application.

3. Identify any financial ownership or senior management/leadership interest in registries, registrars or other firms that are interested parties in ICANN policy or any entity with which ICANN has a transaction, contract, or other arrangement

Since September 2009, I am the proposed candidate for the Administration and management of the ccTLD .CD for the Democratic Republic of Congo, currently undergoing redelegation.

4. Identify any type of commercial interest in ICANN policy development outcomes. Are you representing other parties?

Yes, I represent the registry management ccTLD, interest from DRC Business stakeholders and the African community as a whole. I believe there is a lot of interest from business and stakeholders in Democratic Republic of Congo and Africa community that are interested in the development of new generic Top-Level Domains (new gTLDs) policy that will also benefit them on one hand and enhance on the Internet on the other. My contribution in the Working Group would enable me to represent the perspective of underprivileged communities who wish to benefit from the group's work.

5. Describe any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency or person(s) regarding your nomination or selection as an advisory group team member

I am not a member of any constituency yet as Cartagena was only my second ICANN meeting. I did do some work with (and support the work of) the Francophonie group at ICANN

6. Geographic Region associated with the nationality of volunteer (Africa, North America, Latin America/Caribbean, Asia/Australia/Pacific and Europe)

Africa

7. Stakeholder Group(s) in which volunteer currently participates within the ICANN organization ccNSO, Francophonie and African community

Teams:

• Joint SO/AC WG on New gTLD Applicant Support (JAS-WG)