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Franck Martin
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Franck Martin is a Chartered Engineer in Information and Communications Technology, currently working as an Information and Communications Technology specialist at SOPAC on an EU funded project. Early life Franck was born in Meurthe et Moselle, France in 1968 to Jacques and Nicole Martin and is a graduate of the École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Marseille, now École Centrale de Marseille, a French chartered school in Marseille, France. Career Franck came to Fiji in 1993 as a French Overseas Volunteer and served at SOPAC. On the completion of his Volunteer contract, he stayed on at SOPAC and served in various ICT capacities including Internet technology and GIS/Remote Sensing. His most recent position is as an ICT Specialist on an EU project to install Mapserver technology using FOSS to develop local content via online mapping for 14 Pacific Islands Countries. He installed the first ISP in Tuvalu in 1999 and migrated the then sole Kiribati ISP to FOSS in 2002. He has also installed 2 ccTLDs: Nauru and Kiribati. Other Activities Franck is vice-chairman of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society PICISOC since its creation in 1999 and is a Trustee of the Internet Society for the period 2006-2009 Since 2002, he has participated in the organisation of PacINET, the annual PICISOC conference. In 1994, he was a co-founder of IT-PacNET, which was a meeting of ICT specialists of 10 regional governmental organisations in the Pacific before becoming the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific ICT Working Group. He was chair of this group in 2005. He has observed ISOC and ICANN board meetings and participated in ICANN's GAC meetings and helped organise the Pacific Islands Forum ICT ministerial meeting in Wellington in March 2006. This was a meeting of 16 Pacific Island Government Ministers chaired by New Zealand to discuss the Pacific Islands Digital Strategy which was a follow up of the Pacific Islands ICT Policy and Strategic Plan where he had a major role in the drafting committee. He is a member of the University of the South Pacific advisory committee on its ICT courses. He was a member of the ICT group for the 2003 South Pacific Games Organising Committee. He is well travelled and has attended INET, EGENI, and OpenSource geospatial conferences around the world. Affiliations and Positions *Founding member and Vice-Chairman of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society PICISOC (1999 - present) *Member of the Internet Society Board of Trustees (2006-2009) *Chartered Engineer registered with the French National Council of Engineers and Researchers *Member of the University of the South Pacific advisory committee on Computer Science curriculum *Member of the Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific ICT Working Group *Member of IEEE 
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