<div dir="auto">We (ISOC India Trivandrum) also wholeheartedly support this proposal.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">satish</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 4, 2017 3:27 PM, "i freedom Uganda" <<a href="mailto:ifreedomuganda@gmail.com">ifreedomuganda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you Dave;<div><br></div><div>I strongly agree with you.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards<br><br>On Sunday, June 4, 2017, Imran Anwar <<a href="mailto:imran@imran.com" target="_blank">imran@imran.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I agree. <br><br><div><br></div>Thanks. <div><br></div><div>Imran</div></div><div><br>On Jun 4, 2017, at 1:25 AM, Dave Burstein <<a>daveb@dslprime.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Gonzalo and folk</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">As most of you know, last spring a proposal was made to allocate 3% of the ISOC budget for the chapters to spend on their activities. Depending on the allocation formula, that would be $15,000-$50,000 per active chapter. Careful review to avoid fraud was included.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I believe the majority of the board was supportive and one board member said he was confident things would be approved after the chapters committee developed a concrete proposal. Instead, staff has chosen another path. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It's time for those on the board to set policy. The staff proposal ignores the primary points and instead suggests spending $500,000 on branding is the best way to help the chapters. The staff proposal will soon be public, I'm told. The differences will be very clear. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The elephant in the room, of course, is that most ISOC chapters are in the Global South, as is most of the board. Almost all policies are made by senior staff, almost all in the Global North and strongly supportive of the "DC Consensus." I can provide several clear examples of ISOC opposing Group of 77 proposals strongly supported by the African and Asians because they would lower the price of Internet access. (Previously discussed at ISOC events.)</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I spend time on ISOC because I think we can deliver concrete progress on the Internet for All. I don't think I'm alone in believing our $30M PIR subsidy can be far more effectively used. I believe the chapters will demonstrative that, if they had support. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Frankly, the people on the ground in Africa I've met have a far clearer understanding of what's needed than D.C. lawyers and economists. I'm on a U.S. State Department committee, and I'm amazed how in DC ideology takes precedence over knowledge. We can and should bring the public interest issues to the forefront. We haven't. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">So I request the board members informally begin looking closely at the chapters proposal, with a possibility of forming a group to show respect for the opinions of the chapters.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The rest is commentary. I've been up almost 24 hours working on this and am fading. If my comments are unclear, please request clarification from me or the members of the chapter committee. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I'll be making concrete proposals after I get some sleep and catch up on the technology reporting I do for a living. In particular, we should change the symbolic meaning of some old charter rules and actively reach out to those not well represented. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In particular, nearly 1/3rd of the Internet is now Chinese. Both Africa and India will soon have more Internet users than the U.S. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Any global policy is likely ineffective unless a way is found to incorporate this missing third of the Internet in decisions. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">How can ISOC build those bridges? Many of us, including Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, have been personally working on this</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ideas needed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dave Burstein</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-- </span><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Editor, Fast Net News, 5GW News, Net Policy News and DSL Prime<br>Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)</div></div></div></div>
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