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Pavan Duggal - A Brief
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Pavan Duggal is one of the
pioneers in the field of Cyberlaw and is Asia's leading authority on
Cyberlaw. He is a practicing Advocate, Supreme Court of India and a
Cyberlaw Consultant. He is the President of Cyberlaws.Net, The
Cyberlaw Consultancy which is Internet's unique and first ever
consultancy dedicated exclusively to the new field of Cyberlaw.
He is the Founder President of Cyberlaw Asia, Asia’s pioneering organization committed to the passing of dynamic Cyberlaws in the Asian continent. Cyberlaw Asia is engaged in the process of creating greater awareness about Cyberlaws in different countries of Asia. Pavan has been associated
with UNESCO on Ethical, Legal, and Societal Challenges of Cyberspace
in Asia and the Pacific. He
is the consultant to United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on the Asia Pacific Conference on
Cybercrime and Information Security 2002. He is Member of Nominating Committee of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) . He is also member of the Membership Advisory Committee and Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF) of ICANN and is involved in the legal issues of At Large Membership of this global body. He is the Member of the Public Interest Registry’s.Org Advisory Council . Pavan is doing a lot of work in the area of Intellectual property rights in the electronic medium and in cyberspace. He is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Centre's Panel of Neutrals. He has acted as an arbitrator in various domain name disputes of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Pavan is the member of AFACT Legal Working Group of UN/CEFACT. Pavan has vetted and reviewed the e-primer on Cyberlaw prepared by e-Asean Task Force as an expert authority. He is the Cyberlaw correspondent for the Global Legal Publication JURIST: The Legal Education Network. He is advising the Controller of Certifying Authorities, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India on issues concerning the Indian Cyberlaw namely, The Information Technology Act, 2000. He is also the Member of the IT Act Legal Advisory Group constituted by the Controller of Certifying Authorities. Pavan has also the credit of having done pioneering work in the field of Convergence Law. Pavan Duggal has testified before the Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, on the Communication Convergence Bill, 2001. Pavan is the Founder
President of Cyberlaw India . He has also founded The Cyberlaw
Association. He is the Founder of Cyberarbitration, an online system
of alternative dispute resolution. Being a prolific writer , he has authored three books entitled " Cyberlaw in India " , " Cyberlaw The Indian Perspective " and " Indian Convergence Law " . Pavan writes regularly, inter-alia amongst others, every Sunday his Cyberlaw column " Brief Cases " in The Economic Times. He has been invited as a
distinguished speaker on various issues of Cyberlaw at numerous
International Internet Fora, conferences and exhibitions like India
Internet World, 1998, 1999 , 2000 & 2001 at New Delhi;
E-biz-2000, E-BizIndia-2000, E-Governance Conference;
Apricot 1999 at Singapore;
and Regional Meeting of Infoethics (UNESCO), 2000 at Beijing. Pavan Duggal can be contacted at his email pduggal@vsnl.com , pavanduggal@yahoo.com. |
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