With more than 20 years of experience with ICANN, Vanda Scartezini has gained recognition for her commitment to ICANN's multistakeholder model and her leadership in various community groups.
Sao Paulo, June 22, 2022 — Vanda Scartezini, advisor and director of the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES) received the ICANN Community Excellence Award from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This is an acknowledgment of his commitment to ICANN's multistakeholder model and his leadership of various ICANN community groups.
ICANN's Community Excellence Award honors those who have significantly contributed to the search for consensus-based solutions for policymaking in the global Internet ecosystem. An active community member since 2000, Vanda Scartezini (who is an electronics engineer, co-founder and partner of Polo Consulting Associated and partner of IT Trend Consulting) has collaborated with many of the entity's community groups and committees over the past 22 years. The specialist led the General Advisory Committee, The Government Advisory Committee it's the ICANN Nominating Committee, and was a member of the ICANN Board of Directors, of Security and Stability Advisory Committee and the Regional Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Islands. And as co-founder of DNS Women Program, in 2009, Vanda Scartezini provided invaluable support for ICANN's multistakeholder model and its effectiveness. A pioneer in the creation of the ICANN Scholarship Program, he also served on the Scholarship Selection Committee for three years. “The ICANN Supporting Organization and Advisory Committee Representative Selection Panel recognized Scartezini's commitment to ICANN's multistakeholder model and his leadership of various community groups,” the organization said in a statement.
About ICANN
Formed in 1998 as a non-profit public benefit corporation with a community of participants from around the world, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is a subordinate entity to the United States Government and its mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. Responsible for allocating Internet Protocol (IPv4 and IPv6) address space, assigning protocol identifiers, administering the Generic and Country Code (ccTLD) Top Level Domain Name System (gTLD) as well as management functions of the root server system, ICANN has been linked to the US Department of Commerce since its inception and was created to coordinate tasks originally performed under contract with the US government through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities.
About ABES
ABES (Brazilian Association of Software Companies) aims to contribute to the construction of a more digital and less unequal Brazil, in which information technology plays a fundamental role in the democratization of knowledge and the creation of new opportunities for all. In this sense, it aims to ensure a business environment conducive to innovation, ethical, dynamic, sustainable and globally competitive, always in line with its mission to connect, guide, protect and develop the Brazilian information technology market.
Currently, ABES represents approximately 2 thousand companies, which total about 85% of the revenue of the software and services segment in Brazil, distributed in 24 Brazilian states and in the Federal District, responsible for the generation of more than 210 thousand direct jobs and an annual revenue of the order of R＄ 80 billion in 2020.
Access the ABES Portal or speak to the Relationship Center: +55 (11) 2161-2833.
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