[NCUC E-team] NCUC Membership Update Needed

[William Drake]

Hi

Any chance we could at least get the correct math onto the Ning site before the Beijing meeting?  That would be helpful for the conversation…

Removing the old groups and inserting the new teams would be also very groovy…just as a point of discussion…

If possible…

Bill

On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:58 AM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hi
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> I was going to send this to the Inreach team list, but not everyone of relevance is there.  Plus I thought others might want to know...
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> It occurred to me that it would be useful to have accurate membership numbers to refer to in LA.  So I looked at http://ncuc.org/page/membership-roster.  Two things jumped out at me.
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> First, the count is short.  The page says "NCUC's membership has reached 204 members from 62 different countries, including 86 noncommercial organizations and 118 individuals."  But the list looked longer to me, so I copied it into text editor and clicked numbered list and here is what I got:
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> 83 Organizational members
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> 181 Individual members
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> 264 members
> 
> Better than we're claiming (although yes some culling will be needed, I see a few cases).  And better, at least on paper, than the Internet Governance Caucus in IGF and the CSISAC in OECD, and perhaps even ALAC (I saw a message from Olivier recently saying 151 ALSes, although if you look closely many tiny or totally disengaged etc. there too……wouldn't know how to count individual At Large people).  
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> Second, the list is short.  It does not include folks from the last NCSG EC intake of new members, e.g. Bytes for All (Pakistan), Sarah C, Olga K., Anthony N., etc.
> 
> May I ask:
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> a. Going forward, could our reps on the NCSG EC please let the Inreach team know each time there are new NCSG members (generally) and of those indicating a desire to be NCUC (particularly).
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> b. Could someone from NCSG EC or other who has a record of recent additions please send them to Wilson (above) so the membership list can be updated before we go to LA?
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> c.  It'd also be nice to have an accurate number on the "how many countries" to bandy about.  Is there a list with countries attached to it that can be passed to Ed and Wilson?
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> Thanks,
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> Bill
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