[Chapter-delegates] IGF Ambassadorship Open

[Sagarika Wickramasekera]

I totally agree with the Glenn's Point. Even in Sri Lanka hard working
volunteers for many years who really work for uplifting the IGF is thrown
away and demotivated due to this limitation. If internet is for all there
shouldn't be any barriers or limitations.

+1 for you.

Sagarika

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:05 AM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The call for IGF Ambassadors has opened for  IGF Mexico.
>
> Note the limitations
> Selection criteria
>
> IGF Ambassadorships are for young Internet Society members who have a
> strong interest in the issues and themes of the IGF. Ambassadorship awards
> are available for first-time and returning ambassadors. Selection for the
> Ambassadorships is competitive. All applicants must be:
>
>    - *between the ages of 20 and 40*
>    - a member of the Internet Society
>    - able to present a strong motivation for attending the IGF meeting
>    - able to demonstrate interest and expertise in issues on the IGF
>    agenda
>    - able to demonstrate experience in leading Internet governance
>    discussions at the international level and in multi-cultural environments
>    - capable of appropriately represent the Internet Society and its
>    views and policies as an Ambassador during the IGF
>    - capable of  continuing to work with the Internet Society locally
>    after the IGF.
>
> I am curious  how  the  *Internet is for  Everyone, *but why does  ISOC
>  continues to limit the ambassadors to under 40 years old.   Interesting
> since  ARIN  Fellowship or  ICANN has removed this obvious discrimination
> against dedicated volunteers
>
> I wonder how many previous candidates actually worked with the local
> chapters after the IGF.
>
> Recently at  ICANN  we reviewed all the fellows based upon their
>  self-identified sectors and countries and the bias has been for  World
> Least Developed economies- this has meant that  US  territories in the
> South Pacific,  first Nations,  poor and rural  Americans  were not
> eligible.  We have stated for  years that this is unfair to  Canadian and
> US  first nations/indigenous ( can be treated as independent tribal
> governments) .  ICANN is now  reexamining their criteria with a noteworthy
> change to allow first nations people to participate.
>
> Does anyone else feel  that  ISOC's  ambassador program suffers from
> ageism?
>
> Glenn
>
> Glenn
>
> Glenn McKnight
> mcknight.glenn at gmail.com
> skype  gmcknight
> twitter gmcknight
> .
>
> _______________________________________________
> As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed
> to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society
> Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org
>



-- 
Sagarika Wickramasekera
Asst.Network Manager
SriPalee Campus,
University of Colombo
BSc.(Nat.Sci) CCNA,CCSP,MBA
President  ISOC  Sri Lanka chapter
LKiNG Advisory board member
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/private/chapter-delegates/attachments/20160708/e4263d3b/attachment.htm>