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

[Veni Markovski]

Thanks for the URL, Gonzalo.
An interesting observation - out of the four non-US Trustees, 3 are
elected by the chapters (the fourth one is actually you;).
This is a sign that the chapters are not only vital part of ISOC, but
also a part, which pays attention to diversity - not only in geography,
but also in culture, views, ideas, etc.
Perhaps people, who are critical of the chapters, could look at the
numbers and think again if their criticism is not misguided:-) 

v/

On 9/10/20 02:23, Gonzalo Camarillo via Chapter-delegates wrote:
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> Hi,
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> for the record, we wrote the following blog post back in July about
> building a strong diverse Board:
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> https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/07/building-a-diverse-and-strong-internet-society-board-of-trustees/
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> Cheers,
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> Gonzalo
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> *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
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> 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:
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>     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.
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> 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.)
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> Mike
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