MAHMAD ALEEM BOCUS, IGCBP 2007 110
Barrister at law, Mauritius Aleem graduated in law at the University of Mauritius and completed the Bar Vocational Course run by the Mauritius Council of Legal Education. In 1994 he joined the Attorney General’s Office as State Counsel and became a District magistrate in the same year. He left the judiciary in 2000 and was Head of the legal department of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority from August 2002 to January 2006. In November 2006 he successfully completed a Masters degree in Regulation and Policy in Telecommunications with the University of the West Indies. He followed the ACA International Training Program 2003, Regulation Stream, Australia and was also a resource person in the High Level ICT Policy Forum in Rwanda in September 2004. He resumed private practice in February 2006 and his main fields of activity since then are court litigation and legal consultancy. His association with Diplo through IGCBP 2007 is a precious opportunity for him to remain abreast of the latest developments in Internet governance.
MARIA M. VOICAN, IGCBP 2007 IP trainer, Bucharest, Romenia Maria has been working for seven years, since her graduation in the Law School of the "Nicolae Titulescu" University in 2000, in the field of intellectual property, with focus on copyright and neighboring rights and trademarks. She has training from WIPO Academy and a MA in Criminal Science. Maria attended and participated as invited lecturer in seminars, workshops and conferences organized by the private foreign IP industries, the US Embassy in Bucharest, the Prosecutor General Office on the Phare Program Ro 0107.06.01, the National Institute of Magistracy, among others. In 2006 she was officially listed as IP trainer at the National Institute of Magistracy, the Romanian institution that trains magistrates (both judges and prosecutors). Her interest is closely related to e-exploitation and e-protection of copyrighted content and trademarks over the Internet and the smooth functioning of the two in connection with the rights of Internet citizens, children security online and e-governance.
MARÍLIA MACIEL, IGCBP 2007 Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil Marília has a law degree from the Federal University of Pernambuco. She has worked as a teacher and also coordinated the Gender Policies Secretariat of the city of Olinda. She is currently doing a Master on Latin American Integration at the Federal University of Santa Maria. Her research focuses on digital inclusion and investigates how ICTs can foster democratic participation on integration processes. Her main academic interests are regional integration, international law, e-government, e-participation and gender.