Jacqueline A. Morris

Jacqueline A. Morris - Previous ALAC member Latin America and the Caribbean (from Trinidad and Tobago) and ALAC Chair 2007, ex-ALAC Liaison to the ccNSO 2007-2008. She was a member of WGIG and a civil society participant in WSIS as a member of the Gender Caucus.

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. The ALAC, during this time, successfully finalized the creation of 5 regional end-user organisations (RALOs) to ensure that ICANN's policies are 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 until the end of 2008. She is leaving involvement in ALAC in order to concentrate on PhD research.

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, working with the Caribbean Virtual ICT community (CIVIC)

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.