[Chapter-delegates] An occasion to congratulate and commit support to an initiative that is not part of ISOC....

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Hello

Joly MacFie posted this message in One Web Day with a disclaimer. His
message is about the Netizen Cultural Festival to be organized in Beijing.
Perhaps this would be an occasion to congratulate the 'Internet Society' of
China and encourage them? We may eventually have to ask them in a nice way
to name their organization a bit differently and/or welcome them to be a
part of ISOC, but now this is an occasion for ISOC to congratulate them?

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Joly MacFie's Message in One Web Day <http://www.onewebday.org> follows:

[Note that The Internet Society of China is NOT affiliated with
the global Internet Society.]

http://www.chinatechnews.com/2009/01/08/8446-september-14-named-netizens-day-in-china/

The Internet Society of China announced at the First China
Netizen Cultural Festival held in Beijing this week that the
day September 14 will henceforth be designated as Netizens'
Day in China.

The Internet Society of China says that the result of a
three-month survey among nearly 500,000 Chinese netizens
shows that about 66.8% of Chinese netizens hoped to set up a
day made special for netizens.

On September 14, 1987, China sent out its first email: a
message sent from China to Germany. Therefore, most of these
netizens agreed to choose September 14 as the day for the
290 million Chinese netizens to celebrate the glorious and
revolutionary achievements made in China on the Internet.
This remarkable feat of sending an email in China — and
probably one that was not a spam email, at that —
overshadows the unlucky combination of the numbers that
combine to make the date for September 14. In Chinese,
"9-14? can also mean "just want to die", which is absolutely
not what happened to China's Internet, as it has flourished
like a hundred flowers blooming.

Zeng Mingfa, executive director general for the Organizing
Committee Office of the China Netizen Cultural Festival,
says that the activities of this festival will focus on the
overall improvement of Chinese netizens' appreciation of the
Internet, enhancing the promotion of information
communication in the Internet area and disseminating the
latest news about the Internet applications used in China.


Joly MacFie
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