Name: Address: Telephone: E-mail: Gender: Date of Birth: Nationality: ID Number: Education 1977 1978 1983 1992 2015 2016 2017 Employment Jan 2015 Dec 2014 Jun 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE William Hamilton Currie Male BA in'English and Political Philosophy University of Stellenbosch BA Honours in English University of Cape Town MA in Film and Television Studies for Education University of London, Institute of Education Certi?cate Programme in Management (MAP) m. w. The Gradgate School of Business Administration University-of?the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Working with Groups training course, Ububele and Educational Trust Support Group Facilitation training course, Ububele and Educational Trust BA Honours in University of South Africa a; ?mum; - Author, Sneezewood Books, an imprint of Barbara Klugman Concepts (Pty) Advisor to Cross-Community Working Group-Accountability, Oct 2010 - Oct 2014 Jan 2005 - Sept 2010 July 2002 - 2006 July 2000 - June 2002 April 1999 - June 2000 Aug 1996 - March 1999 Oct 1994 - Jul 1996 Sept 1992 - Jul 1995 Aug 1989 - Aug 1992 1986 - 1992 Jun 1986 - Jul 1989 Jan 1979 - Dec 1981 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Councillor: Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) Communications and Information Policy Programme Manager, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Senior Research Associate: Learning Information Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Centre, Graduate School of Public and DeveIOpment Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Councillor: Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) Councillor: South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA) Partner in and Communications Consultant for Media and Broadcasting Consultants (Pty) Special Adviser to the Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting, Pallo Jordan. In this capacity, director of the National Telecommunications Policy Project Partner in and Communications Consultant for Media and Broadcasting Consultants (Pty) General Secretary of Film Allied Workers Organisation (FAWO), Johannesburg Part-time lecturer in Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Distance Education Materials Developer for SACHED Trust, Johannesburg English Teacher, Livingstone Senior Secondary School, Cape. Town Key expertise required in the above positions Strategic 8: policy analysis; campaign development Research policy development Negotiation facilitation Licensing and regulation Management Media Liaison International theory and practice Lecturing teaching Mentoring Writing editing Reading the current political, economic and human resource environment and identifying strategies for promoting a human rights, social justice, ICT and development agenda, and the appropriate moments and actors with which to engage; enabling conceptualisation of local, regional and global campaign processes. Research on national and international ICT policy and ability to write or coordinate the writing of articles and policy analysis. Bringing together of diverse stakeholders to find common ground for policy development and managing the process of negotiation over policy process and content. Participation in and chairing of transparent broadcasting and telecommunications licensing processes and regulation making hea?ngs. Management of staff in task teams; part of the management team of an international non-governmental organisation. Liaison with journalists and developing communication strategies. Tamiliarity with current academic paradigms in the politEal,? economic and information society fields. Lecturing graduate students in media studies. Teaching high school students English. Presentations at global and regional media and ICT conferences. Facilitating workshops. Building capacity of young women and black media activists and later of telecommunications and broadcasting managers to enable them to achieve rapid institutional advancement. Production of educational materials, research reports, newsletters, fiction, organizational and fundraising documents. Specific activities Award 1996 Winner of the 1996 National Telecommunications Forum's Telecommunications Award in the category ?Achiever of the Year? (Individual). Publications 2016 2007 2007 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 1997 1996 1 995 1 994/5 1 994 Blue Eland Foxtrot, a novel, Sneezewood Books, Johannesburg ?Another Instance Where Privatization Trumped Liberalization: The Politics of Telecommunications Reform in South Africa A Ten year Retrospective?, Robert Horwitz and Willie Currie in Telecommunications Policy Sept/Oct 2007 ?Open, universal and affordable access to the internet?, Anriette Esterhuyzen and Willie Currie, in The Power of Ideas: Internet Governance in a Global Mulit?Stakeholder Environment, Wolfgang Kleinwachter Marketing fur Berlin, 2007: 60-67. spaces for building a global information society? in Global Information Society Watch (APC lTeM, 2007) APC Internet Rights Charter (co-a uthor of revised version) Recommendations to the WSIS on Internet'G?ernance (co- author) E-strategies and the World Summit on the Information Society ?Preparing South Africa for Information Society ?E-services': The signi?cance of the VANS sector', William Melody, Willie Currie and Sean Kane, The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication, 4, 2003: 26?40. Software Delivery System for Development Information in South Africa', prepared for the Land and Agriculture Policy Centre (LAPC) Rough Guide to the National Telecommunications Policy Process?, in Empowering Communities in the Information Society, 15 - 17 May 1996 published by the Development Bank of Southern Africa compiled by Berlyn The Community Radio Sector in a Democratic South Africa, prepared for DANIDA MEDIA AND BROADCASTING MATTERS, Media and Broadcasting Consultants (Pty) Limited (four editions) The Group of Thirteen Organisations: ?The Joint Submission to the Independent Broadcasting Authority's Inquiry into the Protection and Viability of Public Broadcasting Services in a Democratic South Africa?, (Submission to the IBA Triple Inquiry) 1 994 1993 1991 1989/93 1986/9 1986/8 References The Film and Television Federation: The Film and Television Federation Submission on Local Television Content and Independent Production, (Submission to the IBA Triple Inquiry) ?The People Shall Broadcast: The Struggle for a Post?Apartheid National Television Culture in South Africa? in Tony Dowmunt Channels of Resistance: Global Television and Local Empowerment, British Film Institute Channel Four Television 1993 The Politics of Broadcasting: Transition Phase, Jabulani! Freedom of the Airwaves Conference Report, Doom, The Netherlands, August FA WO NEWS, Film and Allied Workers Organisation (four editions) Various distance education materials on English Language and Literature, Turret Correspondence College, SACHED Trust JODAC NEWS, Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee (six editions)