[Fwd: Re: [Ncu-exec] South America]

[Alex Gakuru]

I just looked up our Charter

2(3). Organization and Structure:

"The Executive Committee, directed by the Chair, shall be responsible
for the administration of the Constituency, including arrangements for
meetings, website communications, listserv, and teleconferences...."

Just wondering if we could task the new EC to prioritize development
of a broader "ICT Policy" soonest after they assume office?

regards,


Alex

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Avri Doria <avri at ltu.se> wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2009, at 10:44, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>
>> I am ready to help draft a project if some more people volunteer to help
>> and we could try and seek funds for it (could ISOC/PIR fund it?) -- if
>> people agree my suggestion (and my "weird" opinion on monetizers) makes
>> sense, of course.
>
>
> count me as a volunteer.
>
> there are a fair number of FOSS possibilities, but as anyone who has worked
> with FOSS options eventually learns, FOSS is not free it either requires
> either  sweat equity or hired help.
>
> so i can help with writing funds applications, but will also help, to the
> extent of my abilities, with investigating and setting up the FOSS options
> while waiting for deliverance from people with funding.  I will, shortly
> have a fair amount of volunteer time that was dedicated to gnso council
> chair  activities (averaging about 30 hours/week for anyone who contemplates
> such a role) that i can dedicate some part of to this task.
>
> as for the principle of not giving my info to those who collect it for data
> mining,  it is a personal weakness (i use a google phone and gmail and
> twitter and ... after all) but i have already given up on that from a
> personal perspective (i use a google phone and gmail and twitter and ...
> after all).  i tend to think we need to worry about the laws that let them
> use it as opposed to their abilities to collect it.  but i have no issue
> with helping others avoid the surrender i have already made.
>
> and apologies if i insulted anyone by mentioning that if they had the time
> for the role they had the time for ...
>
> a.
>