[Chapter-delegates] INET meetings - Global INET 2011 and beyond

[Chris Grundemann]

I agree that an annual or bi-annual all-chapters meeting would help
advance the causes of the ISOC by both helping us all to communicate
and solidify our ideas and also by "spreading the word" of what we are
working on and involving many outside organizations with similar goals
or scopes.  I think that having such meetings will help all of us to
garner local support and enthusiasm as well.  There are many details
to be worked out for sure but in general I support the idea and I
would love to be one of the delegates to help organize a proposal for
(re)starting such a meeting.
~Chris


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
> Borka,
> You are quite right. When I say "replace", this is only for our own,
> internal chapter delegates discusison. The right way to do it, would
> be to create a venue, where people would like to go, because they
> will have an opportunity to speak, and be heard, and they will be
> able to hear what the others have to say. If the INET is good, the
> IGF will not need to be replaced - people will just go to the INET instead.
> Ideally the INET should be the place where everyone would love to go,
> something like the TED conferences.
> I came to this idea not suddenly, but after thinking, and proposing
> it to friends. But the real boost that made me write it is the last
> week Berkman at 10 conferene at the Harvard Law School. You may find it
> here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/berkmanat10
> We need a space, which is not focused on the problems the US faces;
> there are 5 billion people out there, who still don't have access,
> and many of them don't know what the Internet is - that should be our focus.
> We need a space, which does not deal with the issues that make
> headlines, but the issues that help people to have affordable
> Internet access, freedom to information and speech.
> We need a space, where engineers could tell policy makers how the
> Internet will change, so that they can think of the way to promote
> it, etc., etc.
>
> veni
>
>
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