[Chapter-delegates] How to be fast? (was Re: Twitter officially banned in Pakistan - more to follow)

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Eric 

I agree there is substantial value and need for reflective and authoritative official responses. 

As to your question. It would be helpful to have a policy and statement development process on line that can provide a route for members to identify and share issues and then take them from discussion to Action.

One of the weaknesses of ISTF was we could identify and discuss issues but didn't achieve a process to reach reflective, and authoritative product. 

This latter step needs structure to identify and  facilitate participation and some dedicated resource to manage the flow. 

Best 

Christian de Larrinaga


On 20 May 2012, at 19:48, Eric Burger <eburger at standardstrack.com> wrote:

> One of the perennial complaints about ISOC is we are very slow to respond tactically to events.
> 
> One of the perennial values the community has is ISOC is very deliberate and thorough about collecting the whole story, putting together a technical and policy response, and (usually) getting community feedback on the response before releasing the message.
> 
> If we did not value community feedback, it would be trivial for ISOC to respond to such incidents as the Pakistani twitter cutoff and Egyptian Internet isolation. Staff could make statements whenever they see the need. Dictatorships are so very efficient. If we went this route, we would most likely give up on our reputation of being thoughtful and balanced.
> 
> Any thoughts from the community on how we can be more responsive, yet keep true to our values?
> --
> - Eric
> 
> On May 20, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> 
>> Plenty of reaction on twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23pakistan and https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23twitterban including proxy info
>> 
>> While ISOC might hesitate as a body to issue an immediate policy statement, there is nothing to stop individual members or even chapters from joining in the chorus of criticism.
>> 
>> My initiial response was to refer back to the ISOC statement issued at the time of the Egyptian thing -  http://isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1712 but that addresses specifically a general cutoff
>> 
>> One wonders how the ban is being enforced technically and  if it messes with standards such as DNSSEC.
>> 
>> j
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 10:20 AM, President ISOC Cambodia <president at isoc-kh.org> wrote:
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> 
>> I got this text down here from Fouad Bajwa. As many of you know, Fouad Bajwa is a Member of a Global ISOC Facilities Committee and was recently also at the Geneva meetings.
>> 
>> Does ISOC Global, or the affected Regional Bureaus, have any procedures or suggestions for such a case?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> Norbert
>> 
>> 
>> Twitter.com is used by the Civil Society and Citizens of Pakistan to
>> express their personal thoughts and opinions and the total blanket
>> shutdown of Twitter.com is a fundamental human right violation
>> preventing Pakistani Citizens both online and offline to express
>> themselves using the Internet through their personal computers and
>> mobile phone devices. Authorities are restricting access to
>> Twitter.com without consulting the citizens of Pakistan through
>> multistakeholder processes.
>> 
>> STILL TWEETING THROUGH LINKEDIN.COM
>> 
>>  
>> -- 
>> Norbert Klein, President, ISOC Cambodia Chapter
>> 
>> Website: http://www.isoc-kh.org
>> eMail: president at isoc-kh.org
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