Marilyn Cade
{{Short description|American Internet activist and ICANN co-founder (1947–2020)}}
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Marilyn Cade (November 24, 1947 – November 3, 2020) was an Internet activist and one of the co-founders of ICANN.{{cite podcast | url=https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/marilyn-cade-on-the-formation-of-icann/id1521285039?i=1000498008728&l=en | title= Marilyn Cade on the formation of ICANN | website=PowerPlays | publisher= | host=Ayden Férdeline | date=November 10, 2020 | time= | access-date=December 30, 2020}}
Education
Career
Cade started her career in the 1970s as a social worker in Missouri, and spent 10 years working in various nonprofit organizations and state governments of the United States positions.{{Cite web|last=Child Online Protection Act|title=Child Online Protection Act Commission Hearing Notes|url=https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/copacommission/meetings/hearing1/cade.pdf|website=University of North Texas}}
= AT&T =
In the 1980s, Cade began working at AT&T, working her way up through a number of management positions with AT&T’s business units in sales, marketing, business operations and strategy. By the early 1990s, Cade became a major fundraiser for Bill Clinton, working her way up to become AT&T's chief lobbyist on technology policy issues as the Director of Internet and E-commerce Advocacy.{{Cite web|last=Child Online Protection Act|title=Child Online Protection Act Commission Hearing Notes|url=https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/copacommission/meetings/hearing1/cade.pdf|website=University of North Texas}}{{cite web|date=2020-01-01|title=WIPO Internet Domain Name Process|url=https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/processes/process1/consultations/series1/usa-dc/transcript4.html|access-date=2020-12-31|website=WIPO}}{{cite web|date=2020-07-01|title=Speakers bureau: Marilyn Cade|url=https://meetings.internet2.edu/speakers/343/|access-date=2020-12-31|website=Internet2}}
Cade was appointed to support AT&T's participation in the International Telecommunication Union Secretary General's High Level Expert Group on Cyber Security in early 2008.{{Cite web|title=APNIC 26 - Program - Speaker biographies|url=https://archive.apnic.net/meetings/26/program/speakers/|access-date=2022-01-03|website=archive.apnic.net}}
Cade helped to found and lead numerous industry coalitions and initiatives, ranging from e-commerce, copyright and trademark, cyber crime, child safety online, and internet governance.{{Cite news|date=Spring 2012|title=Meet the BC|page=8|work=The ICANN GNSO Business Constituency Newsletter|url=https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/8945704/BC+Members-Spring2012.pdf}} Her leadership was paramount in the restructuring of the Ad Hoc Copyright Coalition, the Online Privacy Alliance and GetNetWise.{{Cite web|title=APNIC 26 - Program - Speaker biographies|url=https://archive.apnic.net/meetings/26/program/speakers/|access-date=2022-01-03|website=archive.apnic.net}}
= 2000s =
After retiring from AT&T, Cade founded a consulting business, mCADE ICT Strategies. She advised organizations such as the World Information Technology and Services Alliance about international internet policy matters.{{Cite news|date=Spring 2012|title=Meet the BC|page=8|work=The ICANN GNSO Business Constituency Newsletter|url=https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/8945704/BC+Members-Spring2012.pdf}}{{cite web|date=2020-11-06|title=Witsa|url=https://witsa.org/witsa-mourns-the-passing-of-marilyn-cade/|access-date=2020-12-31|website=Witsa}}
Activism
She was also Chief Catalyst at the Internet Governance Forum USA. She helped IGF become a global platform, working to help other countries organize their own national IGF conferences, and worked for the inclusion of communities from developing countries to help them with their own National, Regional and Youth initiatives.{{cite web | title=In honour of Marilyn Cade – IGF 2020 | website=intgovforum.org | url=https://www.intgovforum.org/vIGF/elementor-1147/ | access-date=2020-12-31}}{{cite web | last=Burstein | first=Dave | title=Goodbye Marilyn Cade | website=CircleID | date=2020-11-09 | url=http://www.circleid.com/posts/20201109-goodbye-marilyn-cade/ | access-date=2020-12-31}}{{cite web | title=With Sympathies: Marilyn Cade | website=ICANN | date=2012-03-06 | url=https://www.icann.org/news/blog/with-sympathies-marilyn-cade | access-date=2020-12-31}} Cade emphasized what was called the "multi-stakeholder model" of internet governance, working to maximize inclusive policymaking and taking an active role in mentoring.
She was a founder of ICANN's Business Constituency trying to help NGOs work alongside businesses to work on Internet infrastructure issues.{{cite web | last=Oyeyemi | first=Kayode | title=Hossam Elgamal Speaks During IGF 2015 | website=AfICTA | url=https://aficta.africa/latest-news/599-aficta-has-lost-a-friend-in-marilyn-cade | access-date=2020-12-31}}
Awards
Cade was posthumously awarded the 2021 ICANN Community Excellence Award, alongside Rafik Dammak.{{Cite news|date=15 June 2021|title=2021 Community Excellence Award|page=1|work=ICANN {{!}} 71 Newsletter|url=https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Read-About-this-Year-s-Recipients-of-the-Community-Excellence-Award-in-Our--ICANN71-Newsletter.html?soid=1118638566701&aid=6LVmGi3STrs|access-date=1 January 2021}}
Personal life
Cade grew up in the rural town of Ava, Missouri with one sister who passed away in 2016.{{Cite news|date=17 March 2016|title=Obituary for Margaret Ellen Stir Stirrat|page=2|work=The Douglas County Herald}}{{Cite news|last=Siganga|first=Waudo|date=1 March 2021|title=Marilyn Cade: A Tribute|page=8|work=The ICANN GNSO Business Constituency Newsletter|url=https://cbu.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/newsletters/2021_ICANN70-BC-NEWSLETTER.pdf|access-date=1 January 2022}}
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