[Chapter-delegates] 2014 Internet Society Board of Trustees Elections

[Talha Habib]

+1 Evan.

Thank you
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Warm Regards,
Talha Habib

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On Mar 30, 2014 8:59 PM, "Evan Leibovitch" <evan at telly.org> wrote:

>
> On Mar 29, 2014 11:34 PM, "Joly MacFie" <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
> > Personally I see the role of the Chapters as being two-way, i.e. also
> representing the Internet's interests to individual people.
>
> I agree that the relationship must be two-way,  although I'm not sure that
> "the Internet" has its own interests to assert.
>
> How I interpret the "top down" component of the Chapter relationship with
> end users is two-fold:
>
> 1) We *must* make the workings of the Internet accessible and
> understandable to all. That means getting through the jargon and using
> simple (and translated wherever needed) language. So long as only the
> technical and business elites understand Internet culture and jargon, only
> they will steer its discretion.
>
> 2) Even more challenging, we must convince end users to care about the
> openness of the Internet, and not allow public indifference to be exploited
> for financial and/or political gain.
>
> It's easy to see that there is no shortage of Internet policy "expertise"
> (almost 200 submissions to Netmundial). But only ISOC has the ability to
> produce commentary truly based on the response of an aware and engaged
> public.
>
> IMO the relationship between Chapters and their local end-user communities
> is at least as important as their relationships with ISOC HQ. It is our
> unique strength, and it must be nurtured.
>
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