<div dir="ltr"><br>My view of the subject is almost identical to Nabil's - well said Nabil and Thank you.<br><br><br clear="all"><font color="#000000"><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"></font></font></font><div><div dir="ltr">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 February 2013 12:25, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bukhalidn@gmail.com" target="_blank">bukhalidn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Dear Alejandro,<br><br>To answer your question: "What does each chapter see as highlights and problems?" <br>
<br><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">I belong to the Middle East region were all of the governments’ representatives at ITU voted for the ITR in Dubai and I am not proud of that at all. So in view of the humiliating failure, I will skip the highlights.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Few days before the WCIT meeting, Lebanon’s representative speaking as a panelist at INET Qatar, was passionate at defending the Internet multi-stakeholder model and went even further to ask for no government intervention at all. The political manipulation that led to the contradictory vote is still a mystery to us but we were not very surprised from the outcome.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">During ISOC Lebanon Chapter preparatory strategic planning works in November 2012 we reached to the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><br>1 . What are the key challenges facing ISOC (Global) over the next 3 to 5 years in accomplishing its objectives in the Middle East region?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">a. Distrust in ISOC’s stewardship mainly from governments<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">b. Disinterest from the region in participation and contribution to ISOC bodies/groups such as Advisory Council, IETF, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">c. Lack or poor understanding of the region geo-political, eco-social and cultural dynamics<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">d. Well established competition such as ITU, ESCWA, Arab League<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">e. Shy ISOC presence in the region at all level (official visits to government, media coverage, targeting advertizing and marketing, conferences, workshops, etc.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">2. What are the actions or strategies that we can consider at the regional level in response to these challenges taking in consideration the unexploited capabilities and unemployed capacities?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">a. Increase representation from the region in ISOC<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">b. <confidential restricted to ISOC-LB leadership team><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">c. Create ISOC bodies/groups for the region from the region – shy mailing list exists<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">d. Promote the value of the multi-stakeholders model to government, civil society, business and academic<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">e. Foster two-way engagement between ISOC and the Internet community in the region with focus on governments<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">f. Develop and train next generation leaders from the region<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">g. Support and sponsor Internet related awareness and training activities such as Internet Governance, copyright, privacy, e-transaction laws, arbitration, IPv6, DNSSEC, security, routing, TLD management and operation, IX management and operation, etc. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">h. Promote ISOC and ISOC local chapters via official visits to government officials and key stakeholders <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">i. Promote ISOC and ISOC local chapters via public media coverage, targeted advertizing and marketing campaigns, conferences, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">As ISOC chapters we are a bunch of good intentioned volunteers, sparing whatever time and resources we can afford to promote the Internet and defend it. When we approach government official we are actually unofficial representative of they don’t know what. On the other hand ITU, ESCWA, the Arab League representations are official with full time personnel mandated with research, marketing, negotiation and lobbying tasks. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">If we are the government faced with that unruly but vital development tool that might make or break the economical competitive edge of the country, deeply impact its political system and cultural identity, etc. which point of view we would consider more seriously? The point of view of enthusiastic hobbyist or those of ITU where you are treated as equal with full voting power? (not to be misunderstood I am not promoting ITU’s operandus modi)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">With ITU intervention (and in our part of the world the Arab League) we are entering new playgrounds that we are not prepared or equipped for. We should rethink our model of local representations to be taken seriously and to gain legitimacy/authority. Dependence on our personal assets proved to be inadequate to say the least.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><br>Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Nabil<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Nabil Bukhalid</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#666666">President</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>E</b>: </span><a href="mailto:nabil.bukhalid@isoc.org.lb" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">nabil.bukhalid@isoc.org.lb</span></a> <u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<u></u><u></u></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.isoc.org.lb/" title="http://www.isoc.org.lb" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray">W</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959"> </span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#dc271f">.</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/ISOC-Lebanon/157181607638474" title="ISOC Lebanon Facebook" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray">Fb</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959"> </span></b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#dc271f">.</span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959"> </span><a href="http://twitter.com/ISOCLebanon" title="http://twitter.com/ISOCLebanon" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:gray">T</span></b></a><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#595959"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">---<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 07/02/2013, at 4:33 AM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Veni,<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">thanks for sharing this! My reaction is somewhere between "I confess" and "Orwell." <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We definitely must work hard with our governments.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We would do well in quickly assessing what went well and what didn't work or even was counterproductive in our interventions (individual, collective, through HQ and in the aggregate) for WCIT in order to do even better in WTPF.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">What does each chapter see as highlights and problems? let's list no more than three each in this round. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Yours,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Alejandro Pisanty<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Desde:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org</a><span> </span><span style="display:inline;color:rgb(255,0,0)">[<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org</a>]</span> en nombre de Veni Markovski <span style="display:inline;color:rgb(255,0,0)">[<a href="mailto:veni@veni.com" target="_blank">veni@veni.com</a>]</span><br>
<b>Enviado el:</b><span> </span>miércoles, 06 de febrero de 2013 10:22<br><b>Hasta:</b><span> </span>Giandomenico Massari<br><b>CC:</b><span> </span>'Chapter Delegates'<br><b>Asunto:</b><span> </span><span style="display:inline;color:rgb(255,0,0)">[Chapter-delegates]</span> ITU conferences</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I think you should familiarize yourselves with these selected quotes from the Iranian contribution to the Sec-Gen report<span> </span> on the WTPF (attached).<span> </span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>It might be good for chapters to start thinking how better to educate our governments, so that they don't fall into issuing similar statements.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>v.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">…<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Internet has been used as a tool/means to disseminate false, untrue, misleading, inciting, provocative information, propaganda, cultural attack which have had adverse impact on culture, dignity, customs, tradition, conviction belief, friendship, family life, honor of peoples in certain circumstances, and for certain countries as well as social instability, security, integrity, unity, solidarity, integrity, political stability and peace in certain other countries.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Are we serious that Internet is part of telecommunication infrastructure (wired and/or wireless? At recent WCIT-12, Internet was considered as a “Holly Word “and no one was allowed to pronounce it loudly otherwise the action could have had a severe consequences?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The catastrophic issue is that <span> </span>some country , exercises <span> </span>major <span> </span>control over a vital area of Internet governance <span> </span>improperly and misleadingly claims that the broaden intergovernmental participation in the governance of Internet would <span> </span>result in handing <span> </span>over the key issues to <span> </span>other countries to have any role in the governance of the Internet . <u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The question is that requiring <span> </span>that <span> </span>service providers to block access to certain websites, very much contrary to official positions <span> </span>claimed by <span> </span>some country on censorship and internet freedom, is <span> </span>almost certainly in contradiction with <span> </span>transparency, <span> </span>openness, and democratic functioning of Internet.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The fundamental question here is whether Today’s Internet is<span> </span><i>, transparent and democratic and open. Due to the fact that these adjectives have different meaning in view of different entities /people </i>In view of many governments, in particular, those of developing countries none of these three adjectives prevail in the Internet Process .a) it is not transparent as the relevant information is not actually clear and transparent. It is not democratic since governments has either no role or little advisory role in the management of the Internet .It is not democratic because governments are not treated with / on equal footing with respect of other players .It is there under almost private or less inclusive / non collective management. In fact some of the most important area of Internet dealing with public policy issues are not governed by collective governments cooperation or any intergovernmental organization but by individual national government( s) and big businesses as a totally decentralized bottom-up regime of governance .The most blend of that is that a very narrow pro WGIG DEFINITION of Internet governance exclude vital issues such as intellectual property, privacy, enforcement, and data protection on line filtering and network neutrality.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The catastrophic issue is that some country, exercises major control over a vital area of Internet governance improperly and misleadingly claims that the broaden intergovernmental participation in the governance of Internet would result in handing over the key issues to other countries to have any role in the governance of the Internet.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">….<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Veni<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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