Norbert Klein

1934 born in Yugoslavia. 1945 expelled to Germany. 1962 to 1972 in Japan, then back in Germany. Since 1990 in Cambodia where he created the first dial-up Internet connection from Cambodia in 1994, established the ".kh" country domain in 1996 and administered it until 1998. All this while experiencing the digital divide - often "falling through the Net." In 1999 he joined the Non-Commercial Constituency in ICANN. Since 2000 he has been involved in the standardisation of the Khmer script on computers. He is at present Advisor to the Director of the NGO Open Forum of Cambodia and the editor of a weekly press review of the Khmer language press, which is circulated in English and Khmer.