Seng Ching Hong (commonly referred to as James Seng) () is one of the

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s in

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and is recognized as an international expert in the Internet arena. He gave regular speeches at various forums on several Internet issues such as IDN,

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, spam, OSS and

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issues. James also participates actively in several standard organizations (such as

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and

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) and also served on the board/committee of several Internet organizations.

Biography

James Seng started his career at TechNet, the first

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in Singapore, in 1993 when he was still a student at the National University of Singapore. In late 1998, he co-founded i-DNS.net and served as the company's Chief Technology Officer for 3 years. Under his guidance, the company expanded its presence worldwide. James also developed several Internet

software Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. ...

and services such as PObox (1995), a web-based

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and forwarding service which has been licensed and commercialized by

Singapore Press Holdings Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPHL) was an organisation with businesses in property and aged care in Singapore. Since its takeover by Cuscaden Peak in 2022, it has been renamed Cuscaden Peak Investments. Prior to 1 December 2021, SPHL was i ...

now known as PostOne and Singapore InfoMAP (1994), the official website for Singapore, which is currently operated by

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(IMDA). James Seng was formerly the co-chair of the Internationalized Domain Names Working Group that is responsible for the standardization of IDN. James Seng was formerly the Assistant Director of Enabler Technologies at the IMDA. James' team is responsible for tracking emerging and

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on the Internet, IP Telephony, open source software,

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, antispam and other related fields. In 2008, James started Thymos Capital LLP, an incubator based in Singapore focusing in helping young entrepreneurs. Previously, James was the SVP of Technology of

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.Gannes, Liz (18 June 2008)
PPLive, Huge Profitable and Barely Known
, ''

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'' James received the 2019 Communications Quality & Reliability (CQR) Chairman's Award from

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's Technical Committee.

References

External links

James Seng's Blog
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