[Chapter-delegates] Unfortunately, the Internet Impact Toolkit is unsound

[Gonzalo Camarillo]

Hi,

for the record, we wrote the following blog post back in July about building a strong diverse Board:
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/07/building-a-diverse-and-strong-internet-society-board-of-trustees/

Cheers,

Gonzalo

From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 20:01
To: Dave Burstein <daveb at dslprime.com>
Cc: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>; Andrew Sullivan <sullivan at isoc.org>; Gonzalo Camarillo <gonzalo.camarillo at ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Unfortunately, the Internet Impact Toolkit is unsound



On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 12:30 PM Dave Burstein via Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org<mailto:chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
9 of 13 of our Board are from the U.S., as are many of our senior staff. To be effective, we should clearly take positions that benefit Internet users around the world.  We must be very careful not to take positions that protect U.S. giant companies.

FWIW, although I'm from the U.S. I don't consider myself to be a defender of "U.S. giant companies." Most of my writings over the last several years have articulated criticisms of those companies, whose flaws I know best. (You'll find very little from me that's critical of, say, Alibaba or Tencent, two companies I've hardly studied at all. For the record, I favor small companies that as market entrants (take Zoom, for example) manage to compete strongly against the incumbents--because it's not just great for them but also good for the incumbents when there's competition.)

Mike


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