[Chapter-delegates] Pacific Islands Regional Advisor banned from major World IT Meeting

[Franck Martin]

Fred,

My conspiracy theory is the following:
Under ICANN, anybody can come, pick up the mic and tell the board they 
are not doing such a great job and should reform.
In Washington and other places it works like this, the people that want 
to pick up the mick, will get together and create a foundation or an 
association and starts to fund people to lobby elected members. These 
elected members will receive campaign support from the lobbists because 
they are supporting the same cause and will ensure that things move in 
certain ways...

Well in ICANN, IETF, IEEE, etc..., you don't need to support anybody to 
make sure your issue is discussed in closed door meeting. You go and do 
it yourself, much cheaper, more transparent etc...

So Governments and their elected members do not want to kill the lobby 
system, they need closed door meetings.

But this is only a conspiracy theory...

The other conspiracy theory, is that ITU has run so many awareness 
meetings with governments, that governments are feeling confident of the 
quality of the advises from ITU, so ITU does not want to have better 
advisers during cessions....

But that's another conspiracy theory

Cheers


Fred Baker wrote:

> Thanks for the heads-up. The fact is that this has been happening to  
> all of our non-governmental participants, including ISOC HQ. That  
> doesn't make it less of a problem, but it means that there are very  
> fundamental issues here.
>
> I like and support Mr Singh's comment in the closing paragraph.  
> Fundamentally, that's why ISOC is not convinced that a governmental  
> oversight function (US or otherwise) is a great idea. The model being  
> displayed in WSIS smells like Mercantilism, not openness.
>
> On Nov 1, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
>
>> PICISOC MEDIA RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>>
>> Pacific Islands Regional Advisor banned from major World IT Meeting
>>
>> At a preliminary meeting in Geneva preparing for the World Summit on
>> the Information Society (WSIS) meeting next month, the Pacific
>> Islands Regional Advisor on this major global initiative was last
>> week excluded from observing proceedings.
>>
>> "Two incidents this week have dampened spirit of civil society and
>> private sector representatives," the advisor, Ms 'Apisake Soakai,
>> told members of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society
>> (PICISOC) in an e-mail from Geneva last Tuesday.
>>
>
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Franck Martin
ICT Specialist
franck at sopac.org
SOPAC, Fiji
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