ICANN SOI to fill sham noncommercial council seats

[Rafik Dammak]

Hello,
I second Rebecca in this point
@david the problem is that developing countries are less represented, I
think that NCUC can show a good example and how diverse it is. I wanted to
raise it when Kieren was at conference (I don' trust him so much ), when
ICANN organize meetings in NY, London and HongKong, I asked him in twitter
why not remote participation for abu dhabi meeting he answered "was there
demand" and there is no planned meeting for Africa (maybe just a session in
East African IGF, maybe Alex know better than me)

Regards

Rafik

2009/8/6 Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>

> It's highly unfortunate and disappointing.
>
> Nonetheless, should we encourage NCUC community members to step up for
> this, particularly members who come from countries in the developing
> world and/or from countries which do not have free and fair elections,
> and thus whose governments (and by extension GAC representatives)
> arguably do not represent citizens' interests?
>
> The alternative it seems is that it would be filled with people
> currently unknown to the NCUC community.
>
> They want diversity, we show them we have it?
>
> Best,
> Rebecca
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Robin Gross<robin at ipjustice.org> wrote:
> > Here is ICANN's announcement calling for Statements of Interest from
> those
> > interested in volunteering to be appointed by the board to represent
> > noncommercial users:
> >    http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05aug09-en.htm
> >
> > "... Of the four new Stakeholder Group Charters approved by the Board
> last
> > week, this temporary seat selection by the Board is unique to the NCSG.
> It
> > reflects a fundamental view that the current non-commercial community
> > participation in the GNSO is not yet sufficiently diverse or robust to
> > select all six of the NCSG's allocated Council seats (as was originally
> > intended by the Board's GNSO Improvements initiative)...."
> >
> > ICANN claims we are not "sufficiently diverse or robust enough to select
> all
> > six" GNSO Council seats.  Yet NCUC represents 137 noncommercial
> > organizations and individuals from 48 countries.  Our membership has
> > increased by 205% since the parity principle was established.  There
> never
> > was any bar for us to meet - that rhetoric was invented by the commercial
> > constituencies and selectively adopted by ICANN staff to justify why 137
> > noncommercial organizations and individuals are not entitled to elect
> their
> > own representation.
> > Too bad noncommercial users will not be given electoral parity with
> > commercial users as the BGC originally promised.  Another empty promise,
> > another rigged process.  ICANN is more aggressive than ever in squeezing
> out
> > noncommercial users in policy development.  So sad.
> > Robin
> >
> > IP JUSTICE
> > Robin Gross, Executive Director
> > 1192 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA  94117  USA
> > p: +1-415-553-6261    f: +1-415-462-6451
> > w: http://www.ipjustice.org     e: robin at ipjustice.org
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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