socialmedian: ICANN has Rod Beckstrom as new president and CEO?

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ICANN has Rod Beckstrom as new president and CEO?

Source: VentureBeat

Jun 25, 2009

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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — the governing body for the rules regarding domain names, among other things — is about to announce a new president and chief executive. An AP report yesterday and another today in The Australian both point to Rod Beckstrom, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author, who most recently served as the first cybersecurity director for the US Department of Homeland Security.

Beckstrom told me “no comment” yesterday — but he’s usually an outspoken, savvy digital intellectual. For example, he authored an influential book called “The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations.” In it, and in his other work, he has studied how new technologies like wikis and social networks can circumvent centralized power structures for good, like free information-sharing, or ill, like terrorism. I interviewed him a couple years, when he was working on one of his startups, wiki company Twiki.com. The starfish metaphor, he explained then, was inspired by “open systems that everyone can contri

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