Stakeholder Group: Technical Community
Region: Group of Latin America and Caribbean Countries - GRULAC
Biography
Tracy Hackshaw is an alumus of the DiploFoundation's Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme in 2008 and an ICANN Fellowship Alumnus from the Sydney and Seoul Meetings in 2009 and the Cartagena Meeting in 2010. Tracy was an Internet Society (ISOC) Ambassador to IGF 2009 in Sharm-el Sheikh and returned as an ISOC Ambassador for IGF 2010 in Vilnius.
He also participated in IGF 2011 as a DiploFoundation Emerging Leader for the Digital World as part of Diplo's Capacity Development Programme in ICT Policy and Internet Governance for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
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 via the University of London (Royal Holloway).
Professionally, Tracy is the Chief Solution Architect and Lead of the Solution Architect Office for the Government of Trinidad & Tobago’s National ICT Company (iGovTT).
As Chief Solution Architect, Tracy is charged with the mandate of setting infrastructure and technology directions and standards, as well as driving associated programmes and projects with the objective of ensuring that the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (GoRTT) has a world-class ICT infrastructure, in support of the goals of the National ICT Agenda.
He is a member of a team providing ICT thought leadership to iGovTT, and by extension, the Government, in several areas falling under the rubric of Internet Governance including the flagship and award-winning ttconnect Multi-Channel initiative - http://ttconnect.gov.tt.
Tracy has been a member of the Internet Society since 2002 and currently holds the position of Vice Chair of the recently established Internet Society Trinidad & Tobago Chapter.