ADELA DANCIU 91 Profession: Legal expert within the Committee for IT&C (Communication Information Technology) of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies Location: Bucharest, Romania
The Programme met my expectations and actually exceeded them. When I first signed up to the program I didn’t have a clear idea about how it would progress. I was already familiar with the Internet governance booklet and I thought it would be an introductory overview of the issues presented there - read the text, make a comment, and move on. But the course went way beyond it and it was really interesting and even fun! It tackled various, up-to date and controversial aspects of Internet governance on which we were asked opinions and ideas, and that made us, the students, more creative. Before my participation in the program I used to focus on one specific subject of Internet governance (for example, the laws on electronic signatures, and on e-commerce).
The Programme helped me to get the whole picture, to understand better the interrelations between the different aspects of Internet governance and to go into some issues with which I wasn’t familiar. Basically my work is closely related to the legislative activity of the Committee for IT&C, that is, research for bills, analysis of bills under the Committee’s examination, preparing reports on adopted bills, keeping minutes of the Committee meetings and maintaining contact with the professional IT&C association for consultations. Since I started my work for the Committee (five years ago), I was interested in Internet affairs. My attendance at the ICANN meeting in Bucharest was very important as an event that kept me interested in these matters. Further,
“The fact that multiple communication tools were used (e-mail, chat, forum, blog) helped maintain the interactivity and the interest.”