[Chapter-delegates] Special Invitation to Global INET 2012 - etc. etc.
jnoulaye at yahoo.fr
jnoulaye at yahoo.fr
Wed Jan 25 00:23:33 PST 2012
Dear Norbert,
+1 for this reminder of some facts of the past of the development of the Internet. I share all the views you raised here.
And then, in working with this platform of the Internet that unites us, we must always adjust the human balances, that other systems struggle to implement, in order to win the challenges of the justice and the human right for everyone in this new field that is Internet.
The Internet system is still like a large building under construction.
It will be a great pleasure to meet you, all the other delegates, the other special ISOC guests and the ISOC staff at the INET event in Geneva, where all, we will climb the next staircase for the next 25 years.
Warm regards.
/Janvier
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Janvier Ngnoulaye
President, ISOC Cameroon Chapter
Yaounde - Cameroon.
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Objet: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Special Invitation to Global INET 2012 - etc. etc.
À: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
Date: Mardi 24 janvier 2012, 17h02
Dear Fellow Chapter Delegates,
Dear Alejandro for having started an important discussion, and for
refocusing it,
Dear Anne for your clarifications – in addition to our regular good
cooperation,
Dear Veni for sharing the information about your special invitation
to the Geneva meeting, and asking for more transparency on
procedures,
and thanks to the many others who joined in the discussion since,
sharing the conviction that the Internet Society has to give more
weight and role to its Chapters – the common ground on which we
exist.
Having read with growing interest the discussion as it developed, I
was thinking since some time to join.
Anne's explanation, Alejandro's response, and Veni's information let
me start, and I add some elements.
Some initial information:
1) I am quite happy that our young, possibly future leader, who has
not attended any international ISOC events, who got positive
endorsements from 3 of the 5 members of our Board, was finally
accepted according to ISOC procedures as a recipient of the Geneva
travel fellowship. We have scheduled a number of preparatory
meetings where I will try to prepare him as well as possible for the
Geneva events.
2) Looking back at “my” ISOC history since 1996 is, of course quite
personal. After having started the first ISP in Cambodia in 1994, I
was privileged in 1996 to receive a fellowship and to participate in
INET 96 in Montreal: “The Internet Society 1996 Workshop on
Network Technology for Countries in the Early Stages of
Internetworking.”
3) I did now some research on ISOC history – especially about
people in our history – but I could not find a report about INET
1996 after it was finished, nor the participants' list – I think we
were about 250 participants, about 50:50 anglo- and franco-phone. The
1996 program goals were the following:
“The workshop is specifically directed toward the needs of people
from developing countries who are playing or will play an
important part in introducing and extending networking in their
countries and regions.”
To find original sources of the 1996 INET event and workshop was not
easy – finally I found
http://www.isoc.org/inet96/inet96/index.html
(but in future it may be
http://www.internetsociety.org/inet96/inet96/index.html ?)
The event was announced like this:
Since 1991, the INET conferences have become a common meeting
ground for participants interested in the design, implementation,
operation and use of the Internet. Global policy and economic
issues, ethical concerns, and many technical issues are raised in
a variety of contexts. The rapid influx of commercial and
individual users on the Internet has influenced the nature of the
system and broadened its utility. The importance of the Internet
and its technology to all sectors of the global economy is growing
as is the social impact of access to the Internet. The goal of
this conference is to provide a platform that will bring together
those developing and implementing Internet networks, technologies,
applications and policies worldwide for infrastructure
development.
But more impressive is the detailed program plan – it is really
worthwhile to open this link about a really “extraordinary event”
with an impressive program:
http://www.isoc.org/inet96/proceedings/index.htm
My effort, to find a list of participants did not lead anywhere (if
anybody can find it – please let me know). But I remember some
participants from Montreal whom I met later over the years – they
turned out to be leaders. Surely there are more (sorry – I mention
only some I immediately remember to have met later repeatedly):
Alex Corentin – Senegal – President of ISOC Senegal
Mohammad Diop – Senegal, ICANN board member
Luis German Rodriguez - Venezuela
Mao Chakriya – Cambodia - director general of the Ministry of
Post and Telecommunication
Nii Quaynor – Ghana – ISOC Postel Award 2007
Emmanuel Tonye – Cameroon - Professor in Telecommunications
and Remote Sensing, University of Yaounde
The search for our present Chair of the ISOC Board, whom I
also had first met at INET 96, was quite difficult:
Old fashioned – and I got:
Your search - isoc "Raúl Echeverría" site:www.isoc.org - did not
match any documents.
New (still with problems – but Google helped to solve them):
No results found for "Raúl Echeverría"
site:www.internetsociety.org.
Results for Raúl Echeverría site:www.internetsociety.org (without
quotes):
Search Results
Board of Trustees | Internet Society
www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/board-trustees
Selected By: Chapters. Raúl Echeberría. Uruguay. Term: ...
Compensation Committee. Raúl Echeberría, Chair · Bob Hinden · Bert
Wijnen. Elections Committee ...
Why only “(without quotes)”? - Because the ISOC site of the Board
Trustees gives his name as Echeberría, but actually it is
Echeverría.
How do, for example, these persons remember and evaluate the last
20 years of ISOC?
When we reflect on these 20 years – what have we achieved since –
looking at some of the 49 program items from INET 1996?
Multilanguage Support - Character Sets for Internet Services -
The Internet and the Mass Media - Classroom Access to the Net: Who
Will Build It? - Learning Diversity and Difference: Culture on the
Net - Students as Partners in the Learning Process - Communities
and Networks - Multicultural and Physical Access Barriers -
Internet Content: Rights and Responsibilities - Security and
Cryptography Directions - Democratic Processes - Ensuring Internet
Access
What did we learn – where are we facing the same questions, but did
not find new ways? And why?
Bulgaria is still struggling to get their country code in their
own script accepted by ICANN; how are the mass media and the
Internet dealing with their related futures; why is classroom
access in some regions of the world almost as far away as it was
in 1996 - is there, or why is there no progress? How do we
operate our chapters in view of difficulties for democratic
processes and censorship - different from situation to situation –
having now a Vice President of Public Policy? Do we want to, can
we do it, in our different contexts? Where do we really work
together?
I think it is legitimate to look back, analyze, and compare, and
consider whether, or not, we have a common future.
This is my background when I consider some aspects of the present
plans for Geneva.
I am disappointed that I still do not see much of CONTENT in the
program schedule for Geneva 2012. And, as Veni said: there is a lack
of transparency about the procedures by which we move. I say “we” -
even being only from a small, struggling Chapter.
All my questions relate to the fact that there is a wide distance
between some headquarter procedures and decisions, and the situation
of – at least some – of the Chapters.
Ted Mooney, Senior Director, Membership & Services, wrote
recently:
Because we believe this will be an extraordinary event, we wanted
the registration to be:
• Better than market for similar events
• Reflective of the value of the event
• Affordable by a high percentage of those who want to
participate
• An opportunity to our members and to students
“Affordable by a high percentage of those who want to participate” -
is this a joke, or are we allowed to feel offended? I would like to
know more about how this percentage was calculated. We are not in
walking distance from Geneva, and – to use a reference figure – a
high school teacher here has a monthly salary in the range of US$
50.- (fifty, not 500).
I can read such a statement only as relating to an understanding
what the Internet Society is: a business conglomerate? The Geneva
event is “Better than market for similar events” - which “market,”
and which “similar” events?
Our colleagues Grigori Saghyan, ISOC.AM, said:
I have same impression, that this event is designed in a way to
represent young generation on INET, without "old men" presence.
May be this is a right decision, in 1990-is participants were
25-40 years old, active, young, dedicated persons. Today these
persons are 45-60 years old, may be not very active and creative.
Young generation can give new spirit and new vision. But if there
is such policy, it will be excellent to declare this policy
openly. Of course, even in this case necessary to have exact
program and speakers,
Now we have a speaker and we can be thrilled – as Ted Mooney said:
Professor Leonard Kleinrock will deliver the keynote address. I am
looking forward to the report when our fellowship recipient will be
back, because in the years since 1983, since I started to use and
promote the use of e-mail, and since 1994, when I established the
first connection to the Internet from Cambodia – the first ISP here
- and in 1996 the ccTLD .kh which I administered it for some years,
and throughout the years since, involved also with the francophone
communicating community and with ICANN, I had never heard about
Professor Kleinrock. My mistake.
So far I could find out that, in his own words, he said: "Basically,
what I did for my PhD research in 1961–1962 was to establish a
mathematical theory of packet networks..." - as a key mathematical
background on queuing theory, leading to packet switching, the basic
technology behind the Internet. Twelve years later in 1977, on the
basis of this mathematical background, the Internet finally started
to be developed in the form of the ARPANET; and then come the names
many of us know from history - Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf, Jan Postel,
and many others. It will be interesting to hear how this leap from a
mathematical algorithm to practice is seen now, in the struggles
related to the social impact of the Internet, to keep the internet
free and open in a difficult economic and political atmosphere.
I want to close with a serious practical concern. Our
accepted ISOC Travel Fellowship recipient received the following
information with the paperwork:
Insurance:
The Internet Society is not responsible for the Travel Fellow’s
personal health, safety, or belongings.
Acquiring and paying for any insurance that you might want to
conclude, including travel, health, and property insurance is the
Travel Fellow’s responsibility and not the Internet Society’s
responsibility.
I understand that this is standard procedure – every chapter can
send one fellowship applicant, every applicant is treated according
to the same rule – all: those from north America, and from western
Europe (where the majority of people are covered by their health
insurance anyway when they travel to Switzerland), and those from
Cambodia, and from some other countries lumped together as the LDCs
– “the least developed countries” - what a nice word. Fair? Just?
Why? Did those who planned this event think about it and think this
is OK? - I am now investigating to find out which international
insurer will provide such insurance for a Cambodian citizen. And at
which cost. And then start to find somebody who might help our
chapter to cover these costs. The Internet is for everyone, no?
Norbert Klein
President
ISOC Cambodia Chapter
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