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

[Winthrop Yu]

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On 10 Sep 2020 8:36 pm, Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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/ 
>> <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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