ICANN meeting and security concerns

[Kim G. von Arx]

I absolutely and wholeheartedly agree with Robin!  

Kim 

On 22 Jan 2010, at 12:18, Robin Gross wrote:

> ICANN would send a terrible message to the world if it cancelled this meeting in Nairobi.   Now is when the world is looking to ICANN to be more international and to open-up its processes away from only the small handful of privileged Western businessmen that have traditionally managed the org.
> 
> I hope ICANN will not perpetuate these overblown fears about Nairobi and insult much of the world by canceling the mtg. because certain ($$) people have been frightened by the media into staying home.
> 
> If ICANN wants to be a truly international governance institution, it cannot be afraid of Africa.  Time for ICANN to grow-up and go into Africa with or without the entourage of elite Western businessmen.
> 
> My 2 cents,
> Robin
> 
> 
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> On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> 
>> Right now São Paulo is under a wave of protests in the poor communities
>> (which is more than 70% of that city of 11 million) against local public
>> policies. This is motivated by the poor record of the local and state
>> government in handling sanitation, flood prevention and urban
>> development. Some communities are under water and sewage for more than
>> 40 days now. As expected, the local police reacts with the usual
>> stupidity and violence breaks up. But the big media is aligned with the
>> state government, and nearly no news of these protests circulates,
>> except in the many alternative blogs.
>> 
>> Since what happened in Nairobi involves a "fashionable" religious
>> conflict, big media blew it out of proportion, it seems.
>> 
>> --c.a.
>> 
>> McTim wrote:
>>> Bill,
>>> 
>>> I haven't cross posted to ALAC or any other list, but want to give NCUC
>>> members a first hand perspective.
>>> 
>>> Nairobi is no less safe now than when ICANN decided to hold its March 2010
>>> meeting here.  Last weeks violence happened because police banned a
>>> demonstration from happening after Friday prayers.  The Jamaican cleric was
>>> deported last night.  It was a very, very small scale skirmish. I've been in
>>> far worse riots in Washington D.C.
>>> 
>>> It would be an over reaction IMHO to cancel or move the March meeting from
>>> Nairobi at this point.   Kenyan and other African stakeholders who are
>>> looking forward to the meeting would be very annoyed indeed, and with good
>>> reason.
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Carlos A. Afonso
>> CGI.br (www.cgi.br)
>> Nupef (www.nupef.org.br)
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