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Well said Dave! Your post just made my Sunday morning!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/06/2017 08:25, Dave Burstein
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Gonzalo and folk</div>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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<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>
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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>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ideas needed.</div>
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