Tracy Hackshaw is Vice Chair of the Internet Society Trinidad & Tobago Chapter. He is a graduate of the DiploFoundation's Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme in 2008 and is now a member of their Research & Teaching Faculty. Tracy participated in the ICANN Fellowship Program at the Sydney and Seoul Meetings in 2009, at Catagena in 2010 and at Prague in 2012. Additionally, he participated as an Internet Society (ISOC) Ambassador (part of the ISOC Next Generation Leaders Program) to the 2009 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm-el Sheikh; and returned as an ISOC Ambassador for the 2010 IGF in Vilnius. He also participated in the 2011 IGF in Nairobi as a DiploFoundation Emerging Leader for the Digital World. He is a national of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago and has been educated at the 1st degree level in Sociology & Psychology via the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine) and at a graduate level in International Management at the University of London (Royal Holloway).
Professionally, Tracy is Team Lead & Chief Solution Architect in the Solution Architect Office at the National Information & Communication Technology Company Ltd. and is currently on assignment as Technology Co-ordinator to the Ministry of Science & Technology in Trinidad & Tobago.
In addition, Tracy is involved, in advisory capacity to the Government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobagoâs representation to the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC).
Latest posts
Growing the Internet
18 June 2020
What Does a Post-COVID World Look Like in Small Island Developing States?
This blog post was first published by DiploFoundation. “We need to ensure we digitalize all of our business processes...
Building Trust
17 November 2012
Internet of Humans
On November 8, 2012, I stood in as moderator of an extraordinary workshop for a colleague who was unable...
Internet Governance
9 November 2012
Internet Governance & Sustainable Development – The Case of Small Island Developing States
I will be posting a report here shortly on what I consider (perhaps I am biased) to be the...
Internet Governance
9 November 2012
What happened in the Google Big Tent on Monday 5th November 2012?
Repost from: http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/11/supporting-bottom-up-multi-stakeholder.html Supporting bottom-up, multi-stakeholder Internet governance Monday, November 5, 2012 | 9:09 AM Labels: Free Expression, Internet Governance The Internet...
Internet Governance
8 November 2012
Planes, Headsets, and Big ummm… Tents
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel for over 30 hours, arrive just in the...