SEEDIG Executive Committee
Coordinating SEEDIG activities
Meet the Executive Committee
Olga Kyryliuk
- Chair | Elected in February 2020; Chair since March 2021
- Technical Advisor on Internet Governance and Digital Rights, Internews | Ukraine | Civil society
Olga has a PhD in International Law and is currently working as a Technical Advisor on Internet Governance and Digital Rights at Internews. Previously she was a Technical Program Manager at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, focusing on Internet freedom advocacy in the region. Actively involved in regional and international Internet governance and human rights initiatives: founding member of the Internet Freedom Network for Eastern, Central Europe, and Eurasia; Europe Representative at Executive Committee of Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); former open Internet leader of the Open Internet for Democracy Initiative. Provides consultancy and expert support to Freedom House, Council of Europe and a range of international companies working worldwide. Her sphere of interests lies at the intersection of law and technology and includes, inter alia, digital rights, Internet governance, data protection, artificial intelligence, digital sovereignty, and content regulation.
Bogdan Banjac
- Member | Elected in March 2021
- Advisor, Commissioner for Protection of Equality of Serbia | Serbia | Government
Bogdan is Graduate Lawyer and MA in Human Rights and Democratization. He is currently an Advisor at the Office of the Commissioner for Protection of Equality of Serbia. He is also the moderator of EQUINET’s (European Network of Equality Bodies) Working Group for Research and Data Collection and R&D Officer at the Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Agency. His interests include international human rights law, social impact of modern technology, artificial intelligence and digital rights.
Dušan Stojićević
- Member | Elected in May 2023
- Marketing Director for Eastern Europe, Gransy | Serbia | Technical Community
Dušan was a long-time editor-in-chief of the magazine “Svet komputera”, member and president of the RNIDS Board, chairman of the Cyrillic Generation Panel at ICANN, member of the Executive Board of SEEDIG and the Program Board of RIPE SEE. He also held the position of vice president of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), and now he is the vice president of the RNIDS Board of Directors and marketing director for Eastern Europe in Gransy. The focus of his activities is on IDN domains and the issue of universal acceptance of all languages and scripts on the Internet.
More about the Executive Committee
Elections
The Executive Committee is elected by the SEEDIG community through an open process. The first elections were held in 2017; since 2020, partial elections occur every year.
History
The inaugural Executive Committee was formed in December 2014, following a call for volunteers. After that, new processes were put in place.