Introducing myself

Dear all,

It seems this message never made it to the public list, so my apologies for
cross-posting.

My name is Michael Oghia, and I am pleased to join this group. I was
introduced to it by fellow group member Alexandre Monnin, and I look
forward to participating in the discussion.

I am a Belgrade-based independent consultant working within the Internet
governance ecosystem. My interest in the topic stems from my work with
sustainable access.

I began examining the connection between the environment, energy, climate
change, and sustainability as it relates to the Internet and ICTs last
summer. I wrote two investigative articles looking into the matter as well:
the first is an essay
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20161006_the_internets_climate_quandary_inconvenience_of_practicing/>
 I wrote last October examining the relationship between climate change and
the Internet, while the second is a follow-up article
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170321_shedding_light_on_how_much_energy_internet_and_ict_consume/>
I
published in March about the amount of energy consumed by the Internet and
ICTs. I then hosted a roundtable workshop
<https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/WS_11_2017> focusing on sustainable access at
the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG
<https://www.eurodig.org/>) earlier this month, and continue to address
this, such as in this article
<https://labs.ripe.net/Members/michael_oghia/sustainability-is-good-for-the-internet-and-business-too>
for RIPE Labs.

Now that I have introduced this topic to the EuroDIG community, I am
working on three broad goals for the next 6 months:

*1.* Continue building capacity and networking with organizations and
individuals that are invested in the topic from across stakeholder groups,
including sustainability ICT researchers.

*2. *Write and publish more about sustainable access.

*3. *Work with Emily Taylor (Oxford Internet Institute) and Giovanni Seppia
(EurID) on a workshop they submitted that was accepted to the Internet
Governance Forum (IGF), which will be held in Geneva in December.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me should I be able to be of
assistance. I am happy to be a resource for this group.

Best,
-Michael
__________________

Michael J. Oghia
Independent #netgov consultant & editor

Belgrade, Serbia
Skype: mikeoghia
Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/MikeOghia> *|* LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoghia>