James Seng is one of the Internet pioneers in Singapore 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, VoIP, IPv6, Spam, OSS and Internet goverance issues. James also participates actively in several standard organizations (such as ISO/IEC JTC1 and IETF) and also served on the board/committee of several Internet organizations.

James Seng is one of the Internet pioneers in Singapore 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, VoIP, IPv6, Spam, OSS and Internet goverance issues. James also participates actively in several standard organizations (such as ISO/IEC JTC1 and IETF) and also served on the board/committee of several Internet organizations.

James started his career at Technet, the first and only ISP in Singapore, in 1993 when he is still a student at the National University of Singapore. Technet was subsequently spun out to become Pacific Internet that later had a post-IPO market cap of $1B USD on Nasdaq in 1999.

In late 1998, he founded i-DNS.net (with $24M USD investments from General Altantic Partners and Network Solutions/Verisign) and served as the company Chief Technology Officer for 3 years. Under his guidance, the company expanded its presence world-wide with offices in over 7 countries.

Formerly, James is the Assistant Director in IDA of Singapore and his team tracks emerging and disruptive technologies on Internet and other related fields. His team is responsible for IP Telephony, Antispam, Social Software and Open Source Software.

James also developed several Internet software and services such as Tomorrow.sg (2004), the popular meta blog in Singapore, PObox (1995), a web-based email and forwarding service which has been licensed and commercialized by Singapore Press Holdings now known as PostOne and Singapore InfoMAP (1994), the official Website for Singapore which is currently operated by Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts of Singapore. He has also developed a multiplayer role playing online game (Heroes of the Lance) in 1993.

James continues to developed Internet software and contributing to the Open Source movement as a hobby. He started the IDN-OSS and also contributing codes to the blogging community with several plugins for MT and Drupal 4 Blogger project.