Jane Coffin
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Ms. Coffin is the Director of Development strategy at the Internet Society (www.internetsociety.org). Her work focuses on coordination of strategies and projects for expanding Internet infrastructure, access, and related capacities. She manages a global Internet exchange point (IXP) project, working closely with ISOC’s chapters, teams, and Internet community partners. Prior to joining ISOC, Ms. Coffin worked on Internet and telecommunications policy issues for NTIA/OIA, and was an active participant in Internet discussions in the ITU, OAS-CITEL, and OECD. Jane worked on issues related to open Internet standards (BGP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS), and was an advocate for the deployment of IXPs, Vice-Chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force, and Vice-Chair of the ITU Council Child Online Protection Working Group, From 2002-2006, she was Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party on USAID projects in Moldova and Armenia. Jane worked with regulators, policy-makers, IFIs and development organizations, senior officials, ISPs, and stakeholders on regulatory strengthening, market access/competition, and liberalization/privatization activities. Prior to that, Ms. Coffin worked for AT&T as a Director of International Affairs/Government Affairs, working on VOIP, ENUM, and ICAIS, and was a Rapporteur in ITU-D Study Group 1 for universal access/service in rural/remote areas. |