Lu Heng in 2024Occupation Entrepreneur Website https://heng.lu/

Lu Heng is a Hong-Kong based entrepreneur, technologist, and the founder of LARUS Limited. He is the founder of LARUS foundation, a non-profit organization that strives to help the entire Internet community achieve an empowered digital future. He is also a member of the advisory council at Pacific Telecom Council (PTC).[1]

Career

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In 2016, Heng founded LARUS Limited, which has an office in Hong Kong.[2] In 2019, he established the LARUS Foundation, a non-profit organization that strives to help the entire Internet community achieve an empowered digital future[3][4] LARUS partnered with the University of Hong Kong to offer internships.[5][6]

Heng currently holds an advisory and board seat in Pacific Telecommunication Council (PTC), a non-profit global organization. In November 2020, he was elected for the East Asian For-Profit seat at PTC.[7]

Heng is currently focused to promote internet governance education worldwide.[8]

Lawsuits

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Heng is involved in a series of lawsuits with African Network Information Centre (Afrinic).[9] In June 2020, a dispute arose between the Afrinic and Cloud Innovation (CI), which threatened to disrupt the Internet network in the Indian Ocean and Africa.[10][11][12][13] Afrinic accused CI of violating their Registration Service Agreement (RSA) by allocating resources primarily in China instead of the Africa region for which they were intended.[14][15][16] Although CI is registered in Seychelles, it is partnered with LARUS Limited, a Hong Kong-based company founded by Heng.[17][18] Heng denied allegations.[19][20]

References

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  1. ^ "LEADERSHIP".
  2. ^ "Lease IPv4 | IPv4 Broker | Buy & Sell IP addresses - LARUS". larus.net. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  3. ^ "Larus Foundation | Internet Policy Development | Hong Kong". Larus Foundation. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  4. ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  5. ^ "Internships | School of English | Faculty of Arts | HKU". english.hku.hk. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  6. ^ "Larus Foundation | Partnership". Larus Foundation. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  7. ^ Secretariat, P. T. C. (2020-11-23). "Election Results: 2020 PTC Board of Governors and Advisory Council". Pacific Telecommunications Council. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  8. ^ "International Telecoms Week 2024 - Speakers". International Telecoms Week 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  9. ^ Webmaster (2023-10-24). "List of Court Cases involving AFRINIC". afrinic.net. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  10. ^ Release, Press (2021-07-30). "ISPA Statement on recent Afrinic developments". Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  11. ^ "Internet Society Statement on Potential Destabilization of the Internet in Africa". Internet Society. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  12. ^ "How a dispute over IP addresses led to a challenge to internet governance".
  13. ^ "Concerns Grow As AFRINIC's Funds Are Frozen Over IPv4 Dispute". Kentik. 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  14. ^ Webmaster (2024-07-18). "AFRINIC Communique". afrinic.net. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  15. ^ "Afrinic bank accounts frozen after R740 million damages claim".
  16. ^ Moyo, Admire (2022-08-31). "Battle for millions of African IP addresses turns nasty". ITWeb. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  17. ^ "Established in 2013, Cloud Innovation Limited specialises in IP address management. It partners with LARUS Limited (a company established in Hong Kong)".
  18. ^ "CI and LARUS Limited's business has been in an extended business partnership where LARUS provided IP Management Service for CI to provision its number resources to their customers". LARUS. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  19. ^ "African internet riches threatened by lawsuit and corruption". Chicago Sun-Times. 2021-10-04. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  20. ^ "African internet riches threatened by lawsuit and corruption". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2021-11-24. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
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