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GNSO Website Re-Design

6 June 2012
By
David Olive

David Olive

SVP, Policy Development Support & Managing Director - Washington, D.C.

David Olive is the Senior Vice President of Policy Development Support at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He leads the team responsible for developing and coordinating policies with the Internet community to support the security, stability, and interoperability of the Internet.

Prior to joining ICANN in 2010, David served at Fujitsu Limited in Washington, D.C., as General Manager and chief corporate representative where he led the formation of public policy on Internet communications technology. He advised executives on business planning, corporate and business development, and public policy for the Internet, electronic commerce, telecommunications, science, and technology.

Before Fujitsu, David served as a U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer where he specialized in trade, investment, and technology policy. He was a recipient of the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award for distinguished service.

David has served with many technology and business organizations including the Commercial Board of Directors of TechAmerica, Board of Directors of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, the U.S.-Japan Business Council, International Chamber of Commerce, and more.

David earned his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University. He has completed executive leadership programs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey.

By now I’m sure many of you have noticed the newly designed GNSO web site at http://gnso.icann.org.

The new site went “LIVE” on 24 May.

In addition to overall cosmetic and design changes, a key feature of the new site is an updated navigation structure to make it easier for users to find relevant content specific to their interests. In addition to providing new content on basic information regarding how the GNSO is structured and how it operates, policy documents and information are now organized by both subject matter and project to help give users multiple ways to find needed information. Where appropriate, additional links are provided to connect the web site with the more collaborative community wiki spaces for working groups, drafting teams and other community efforts.

The changes from the old site design were part of the implementation of the GNSO Improvements effort – an independent review process approved by the Board several years ago. The final approach and design is the end result of substantial community input over a two-year period and we are proud of the effort to date.

I am hopeful you will find the new look, site architecture and content, to be a vast improvement over the old design, but this is just the first phase. The Staff is planning to add additional functionality, better graphics and further improvements over time – including now being able to move forward with efforts to provide web presence functionality for all GNSO Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies. We’ve already been getting good feedback on how to expand the functionality of the new design.

ICANN Staff plans to hold a small review session of the new site at the upcoming ICANN Public Meeting in Prague. Session attendees will get a quick overview of the new site and some hints and tips for finding all active GNSO and GNSO Council information. We also hope to hear more input on additional improvements that can be made over time. Please check the Prague schedule – http://prague44.icann.org/full-schedule – for more information about the session – http://prague44.icann.org/node/31619.

Authors

David Olive

David Olive

SVP, Policy Development Support & Managing Director - Washington, D.C.
David Olive

David Olive

SVP, Policy Development Support & Managing Director - Washington, D.C.

David Olive is the Senior Vice President of Policy Development Support at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He leads the team responsible for developing and coordinating policies with the Internet community to support the security, stability, and interoperability of the Internet.

Prior to joining ICANN in 2010, David served at Fujitsu Limited in Washington, D.C., as General Manager and chief corporate representative where he led the formation of public policy on Internet communications technology. He advised executives on business planning, corporate and business development, and public policy for the Internet, electronic commerce, telecommunications, science, and technology.

Before Fujitsu, David served as a U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer where he specialized in trade, investment, and technology policy. He was a recipient of the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award for distinguished service.

David has served with many technology and business organizations including the Commercial Board of Directors of TechAmerica, Board of Directors of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, the U.S.-Japan Business Council, International Chamber of Commerce, and more.

David earned his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University. He has completed executive leadership programs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey.

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