<div dir="ltr">Ilda,<div><br></div><div>thanks a lot for this initiative.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides promoting the projects, not only within the ITU's WSIS bubble but in more Internet-proper venues, we should be watchful of ways in which votes for other andidates to these prizes are managed. </div><div><br></div><div>There is a lot of evidence, even if only anecdotal, that large organizations, especially governments, order their employees to vote and to promote voting, even through social media. The fact that some of these top-down ordered votes go viral does not diminish the fact that good-faith organizations have less of a chance in contests like this which are severly gamed.</div><div><br></div><div>As many know, some of us have objected for many years playing not only in this contest but also in general the "WSIS Forum" space beyond the strictly defensive needs of ISOC and prefer to see ISOC take the initiative together with other Internet-proper organizations in fields of interest and with our own agenda, instead of legitmizing others' somewhat artificial or manipulative claims to presence in the Internet space.</div><div><br></div><div>So, all that said, anyone who knows of manipulations should tell Ilda so we know as an organization what we are actually facing.</div><div><br></div><div>(This is my personal view and not necessarily the Mexico Chapter's official position, of which I am not a carrier any more.)</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Alejandro Pisanty</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Alejandro Pisanty</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Ilda Simao <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simao@isoc.org" target="_blank">simao@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_8491091853859157995WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">Dear Chapter Delegates,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">Three of your peer’s projects have been have recently nominated for WSIS Prizes 2017.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">This is the first time we are participating and are very proud of them, thus we would like to ask you to take 5 minutes of your time to vote on our projects.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">The nominated projects are:</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0f243e"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">IOT MAKERSPACES – Zimbabwe Chapter - Category 4 - C.4 Capacity Building<br><a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/projects/Project/Details?projectId=1490394439" target="_blank">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/<wbr>stocktaking/projects/Project/<wbr>Details?projectId=1490394439</a><br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0f243e"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">RADIO MENQ - INTERNET RADIO FOR PEOPLE WITH VISUALLY IMPAIRMENTS – Armenia Chapter - Category 16 - C.9 Media<br><a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/projects/Project/Details?projectId=1485363244" target="_blank">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/<wbr>stocktaking/projects/Project/<wbr>Details?projectId=1485363244</a><br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0f243e"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">HAMARA INTERNET with the Support of the Pakistan Chapter - Category 17 – C10 Ethical Dimension of the Information Society<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/projects/Project/Details?projectId=1490396271" target="_blank">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/<wbr>stocktaking/projects/Project/<wbr>Details?projectId=1490396271</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">The vote phase is open until 30 April 2017.<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">Here’s how to vote:<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">Go to WSIS Prize website <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/prizes/2017/" target="_blank">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/<wbr>prizes/2017/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_8491091853859157995MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0f243e"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">Click on Vote section - Voting Phase page opens up. Click on the VOTE button<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_8491091853859157995MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0f243e"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">The page will scroll down and show <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/projects/Account/Register?submissionPortal=WSIS%20PP&returnUrl=%2Fnet4%2Fwsis%2Fstocktaking%2Fprojects%2FProject%2FVotePP" target="_blank">Click here</a> to register if you don't have an account <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_8491091853859157995MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0f243e"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">Create an account <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_8491091853859157995MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0f243e"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">After this you ready to VOTE <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_8491091853859157995MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#0f243e"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">To help you identify <b>our projects refers to the categories listed next to the title above.<u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="m_8491091853859157995MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">You can vote one project for each one of the 18 categories.<b> </b><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0f243e"><img border="0" width="640" height="394" id="m_8491091853859157995Picture_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D2BF90.AC87C320" alt="s_.prizes.jpg"></span><span style="color:#0f243e"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">You can follow Beyond the Net news on: </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><a href="https://twitter.com/ISOCBNet" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ISOCBNet</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">Thank you and kind regards,<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e">Ilda Simao<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#0f243e"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div>
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