Icm School Of Business

New IFFOR Board Selected to Oversee .XXX sTLD

WASHINGTON — The International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR), the nonprofit organization tasked with policy making for the new .XXX TLD today announced the founding members of its board of directors and policy council.

The members include leading global figures in Internet security, online child protection and freedom of expression, including Professor Nadine Strossen and Sharon Girling OBE.

The chair of the IFFOR Board will be Stuart Lawley, the current chairman and CEO of ICM Registry.  Joining Lawley as board directors will be Clyde Beattie, CEO of Yorkland Investment Corp and Sebastien Bachollet, CEO of BBS Consulting and a member of the Board of Directors of ICANN.

Beattie’s experience includes serving as chairman of the Canadian Internet registry Authority (CIRA), where he was responsible for the .ca top level domain, as well as serving as a director of the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP).

Bachollet’s expertise also stems from a technological background, having launched the sncf.fr website and built CIGREF (Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises). The board is assisted by Joan Irvine as executive director.

“IFFOR has the potential to become one of the Internet industry’s greatest forces for good,” said Stuart Lawley, CEO of ICM Registry and chairman of IFFOR.

“The caliber of our founding members, international leaders in their fields from child protection to privacy, to freedom of expression is testament to the organization’s vision and ambition. We are extremely honored by their commitment to IFFOR’s mission and we all look forward to collaborating with our industry and other partners as IFFOR begins its important work.”

The policy council will be responsible for initiating a series of policies for responsible business practices and conduct within the .XXX online adult entertainment community. This includes making adult content less accessible to children online and protecting the privacy and security of consenting adult consumers of online adult goods and services.

IFFOR is an independent nonprofit body, which has been created by ICM Registry, the organization responsible for the new .XXX TLD, which opens to trademark owners under a sunrise launch period in September. IFFOR will receive significant funding from ICM at a rate of $10 per domain registration per year.

News Now Network » Whistle Blowers Sue ICM School Of Business ...

Two former instructors that have sued Kaplan Career Institute, ICM Campus, on behalf of the U.S. government, allege that the company fraudulently obtained federal funding by inflating its graduation and job placement statistics.

Victoria G. Gatsiopoulos and Dolores A. Howland originally filed the lawsuit, under the False Claims Act, in 2006. It was unsealed Tuesday.

Ms. Gatsiopoulos, who claims she was fired in December 2007 for blowing the whistle, also is seeking damages for lost wages, benefits and seniority at Kaplan.

Formerly known as the ICM School of Business & Medical Careers, the Kaplan ICM Campus is on Wood Street, Downtown. Georgia-based Kaplan Higher Education Corp. owns 70 such job training schools but is better known for its standardized test preparation programs.

The lawsuit alleges a slew of abuses by ICM that violated the Higher Education Act and earned federal funding in student financial aid.

According to the lawsuit, ICM inflated its statistics on graduates who accepted jobs in their designated or related fields in order to woo students and meet minimum benchmarks for federal funds.

Peterson's guide to two-year colleges

Two Year Colleges 1997, Guide to

Pittsburgh business directory

The Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education

Accredited postsecondary institutions and programs