[chapter-delegates] ISOC Response to Tsunami Crisis in Asia

[Ramon Morales]

Thanks Desiree,
I'll include this in our banner at ISOCPR. Let's request that ISOC do the
same on its homepage.
Ramón Morales
Chairman/President
Internet Society of Puerto Rico
-----Original Message-----
From: Desiree Miloshevic [mailto:dmiloshevic at afilias.info] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:44 AM
To: borka at e5.ijs.si
Cc: Ramon Morales; chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org; Gene Gaines
Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] ISOC Response to Tsunami Crisis in Asia

Hi Ramon and all,

There's a Tsunami appeal going on in ebay. People are putting their
old junk on there for sale to support the victims.

See here:

http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jsp?forum=2003&thread=200131156&modified=110
4673171469

Most individuals are likely to donate money through one of the existing 
charities, however if chapters and ISOC could get involved by collecting 
on behalf of their members, that would be a great call too.


Desiree Milloshevic
--
ISOC Trustee
Suite 232
22 Notting Hill Gate
London, W11 3JE
tel: +44 7973 987 147


borka at e5.ijs.si wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Ramon Morales wrote:
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>>[Ramón Morales had difficulty sending this to the chapter-delegates
>>list, so I am forwarding for him -Gene Gaines]
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>>Message sent at 5:11am  January 1 Atlantic time:
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>>Chapter Delegates and Officers:
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>>The tragic events in Asia have inspired a worldwide effort to help the
>>people of that region. What can we do at ISOC to support these efforts?
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>>Are the chapters in this region operational? Can we get guidance from them
>>as to how we can help? Can we mobilize an organized effort through our
>>websites?  Perhaps have ISOC’s home page contain a headline statement from
>>Lynn and/or the Board. 
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>>We in Puerto Rico sent a message via the Digital Divide Network.  We would
>>want to link up to a coordinated effort from ISOC through its chapters.
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>>Veni, Pat and Rosa what do you think?
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> My peronal opinion and I believe the opinion of the other 
> ECC members is positive reagrding this initiative. In the 
> New Year eve Italia and Germany have colected 23 Milion EUR just
> through the GSM network. People were calling special announced
> number and their bill was charged for 1 EUR (mobile) and 5 EUR
> (fixed line). 
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> We can plan similar or other actions to help the
> Chapters in the respective countries. If the announcement
> about the incomming tsunami was spread over the Internet
> and lately to the radio stations the number of victims would
> be maybe just 10% of the current. Here Internet could show the
> power of the information. The information came
> on tme in the more developed countries in the region e.g
> Australia.
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> Regards,
> 
> Borka Jerman-Blazic
> 
> ISOC ECC and ISOC Slovenia
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>>Internet Society of Puerto Rico
>>Ramón Morales
>>President
>>ramon at isocpr.org
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