India’s IT Secretary appointed to high-level UN internet panel
Sharma is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Kerala cadre…writes Arul Louis UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday appointed India’s Electronics and Information Technology Secretary Alkesh Kumar Sharma to a panel of eminent experts on internet governance. Internet pioneer Vint Cerf and Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Reesa were also appointed to the 10-member Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel, Guterres’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said. In addition, Guterres’ envoy...