[Chapter-delegates] Great opportunity for ISOC to influence the Internet governance debate - chapters' opinion needed

[Thomas Lowenhaupt]

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On 2/8/2012 10:58 AM, Veni Markovski wrote:
> Dear Sally,
> thank you for you continuous feedback on the ITU-related issues. Very 
> helpful.
>
> Dear everyone, 2012 is marking a historic year for the Internet, as we 
> know it. Or may be not. The reason is that the ITU is having - for the 
> first time since 1988! - a conference called WCIT 
> <http://www.itu.int/en/wcit-12> in December. And just before it, in 
> November, they will have another important conference - WTSA 
> <http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/wtsa-12/Pages/default.aspx>. For both 
> conferences there are preparatory meetings, usually taking place in 
> Geneva.
>
> These conferences and prep meetings should be well attended by 
> ISOC-related people. Now, we all know that ISOC is a sector member of 
> the ITU, which gives your staff access to *some *of the meetings. 
> Some, because you cannot be at meetings, that are "for member states" 
> only. This includes meetings of the ITU Council.
>
> However, ISOC could - or may be should?! - encourage chapters to go 
> and talk to their respected governments, and see if they can ensure 
> chapter representatives to be on the governmental delegations to the 
> ITU. I would imagine that if ISOC agrees to cover the travel, stay and 
> per diem of these chapter experts, then many governments would agree 
> to include them in their delegations.
>
> So, here's a proposal, and I hope it will be supported by the 
> chapters: organize ISOC that it will immediately launch a program to 
> provide travel grants for up to 50 people from chapters around the 
> world (don't limit it only to developing countries) to try to go to 
> the WTSA, WCIT and the preparatory meetings that will take place 
> between now and November.
>
> If you agree on that, I am sure chapters could come with some plan on 
> how to make sure that they will be indeed participating at the 
> meetings with best experts in the field.
>
> I also think that for the transparency and better information of the 
> broader Internet community, it will be awesome to have 50 people 
> tweeting, blogging, and writing on what's going on at these meeting. 
> This will be useful also for the ITU itself, so it's a win-win situation.
>
> And you can invite other organizations, which could contribute with 
> expertise on the chapters' efforts.
>
> As someone, who has been involved with the Bulgarian governmental 
> participation at the ITU for the past 10-12 years, I can assure you 
> that expertise is badly needed at the ITU meetings. And I am sure that 
> the chapters can provide it.
>
> Hope you will support such an initiative.
>
> Best,
> Veni
>
>
>
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