[Chapter-delegates] Chapter Leaders Community : PREVIEW: Announcing the Internet Society's first Global Internet Report

[CW Mail]

Good evening. Alejandro has made some significant points which require some redrafting. 

Since it is 23.00 here now, I will make my own additional suggestions tomorrow morning.

Regards and Good Night

CW



On 04 Jun 2014, at 23:08, "Alejandro Pisanty via Internet Society" <Mail at ConnectedCommunity.org> wrote:

> Dear Kathy,
> thanks for providing this preview. I hope comments made on it can still be taken up both in the preface and in the body of the document itself. 
> I think many readers - I certainly - will find the report lame for not addressing some of the most pressing policy issues; and, by concentrating on access, too much into territory that the ITU covers well, more traditionally, and in a more established way. 
> The snake chronogram illustrates this last point. More than half the landmarks shown are telecommunications, not Internet, landmarks. 
> Further in the figure the Tunis Agenda of 2005 is part of WSIS; WSIS did not finish in 2003 as the figure would suggest. Why expose ourselves to such vulnerabilities that can be challenged from a factual-accuracy point of view?
> I dislike the use of the phrase "penetration of users" - it is either penetration or users. Or at least a less infelicitous turn of phrase please! (I am standing tight against a wall as I write this.) 
> The figure with the two concatenated circles suggests that W3C is a next step in a succession that includes the IETF when it is in fact a different type of institution and operates in a different layer. For some readers this may be suggestive that ISOC itself blurs the Web-Internet distinction. 
> In that same figure the other circle also has at least one problem, giving particular pride of place to NetMundial. This may turn out to be nearsighted and strategically unsound. 
> I will come back with a bit more comment.
> One last point, may I suggest that this discussion be extended to the Chapter Delegates email list? I am lucky to be sitting at a computer for reading the document and writing this urgent response but would be awfully hampered were I on mobile and a weaker link.
> Again thanks for producing the report and for sharing the preview.
> Yours,
> Alejandro Pisanty
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> ------Original Message------
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Next week, the Internet Society is launching its first annual report on the state of the Internet globally. We are providing the Executive Summary to give you a preview of the full report that will be announced on Monday, June 9.
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> With this report, we are excited to introduce a new level of integrated analysis, measurement, and reporting to Internet governance discussions at all levels.  The Global Internet Reports will become a showcase of topics that are at the heart of the Internet Society's work about the future of the Internet, weaving together the many threads of the diverse multistakeholder Internet community.
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> The theme of this year's report is why it is important to maintain and strengthen the open and sustainable Internet that has enabled not just the growth, but also the evolution of the Internet. While we are approaching the milestone of 3 billion Internet users, the majority of the world's population is still not online. According to the report, affordability and understood value top the list of significant barriers to connecting the world's population to the Internet.
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> In addition to the Executive Summary, we are providing a toolkit of materials that you can use to promote the report and its findings, as well as to build relationships and support activities in your region. We would appreciate hearing your stories of how you've used the report and these tools, which are posted on Connect. The Membership and Services team is available to help you use these tools and answer your questions.
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> We will be officially launching the report on Monday, June 9, at 14:00 CET/8:00am EDT. The report will be announced at the WSIS +10 High Level Event; featured on the ISOC website; and highlighted via press release, social media, and many other communications initiatives. The full report will be available here: https://www.internetsociety.org/global-internet-report. Our goal is to make this a living report, with online maps, updated and new data, and related blogs appearing through the year.
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> I'd like to thank our Chief Economist, Michael Kende, for his vision and hard work in creating this report, along with the many other staff  members who contributed their time and expertise.  We are especially grateful to our Chapter leaders and membership who were so helpful in building the factual base for the report.
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> We are excited to present our first report and trust that the Global Internet Reports will become an important contribution to the continued progress of Internet development.
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> Kathryn Brown
> President and CEO
> Internet Society
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