NCSG mission statement - Re: [NCSG-Discuss] Off-topic: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] Outcry as relief food expires in Kenya Red Cross warehouse

[Alain Berranger]

Hi Maria,

Thanks for your wise reminder. I agree with you.

BTW, I did not know about Joy's effort to draft a NCSG mission statement.
Without too much malice, how can we have a charter without a mission
statement? or we do have one (excuse my ignorance) and Joy is drafting an
update? Maybe we can discuss before San José? Can NCUC and NPOC actually
share a joint mission statement? In any case I volunteer to work with Joy
on this task. Jo, let me know how I can contribute.

Alain

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Maria Farrell <maria.farrell at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Thanks for the link. It is of great concern, though I'm not sure it's a
> close fit with NCSG's core issues. Is the connection that the US Red Cross
> is a member of NCSG?
>
> Sarah - we've not met, and I know an email to a discussion list is perhaps
> not the most nuanced place to discuss these issues. However, I believe the
> NCSG discuss list is not the venue for incendiary comments such as
> "Population control?", which imply murderous intent on the part of NGOs in
> developing countries. You are of course entitled to your personal view that
> NGOs are ineffective or even iniquitous, but I do not see how that opinion
> is constructive within this forum. What possible relevance does this have
> for developing noncommercial input to ICANN's GNSO policy development
> process?
>
> I hesitate to confront this openly on-list, because of the almost
> inevitable waste of time and effort that may ensue. However, when shared
> lists fail to stay on-topic and distribute trollish comments, it drowns out
> reasonable voices and signals to potential contributors that they will not
> be heard. Think what we could accomplish on developing inputs to current
> ICANN policy issues with the same resources.
>
> So rather than a long, heated thread on a topic of high concern but low
> relevance, can we please consider directing our efforts towards current,
> real policy issues of importance to the NCSG?
>
> Currently outstanding are requests for people to volunteer on the drafting
> team for the charter on domain name locking and the UDRP, Joy's efforts to
> draft a mission statement for the NCSG, calls for comments on the Draft
> Integrated Issues Report on IDN Variant Issues Project, and a just-expired
> request for individual NCSG responses on the JAS issue. We also have a
> policy call next Monday, 16 Jan. For my part, the Nominating Committee
> application period for leadership positions has recently opened, and
> nonprofit candidates are badly needed - so that is an ongoing task of this
> group to find senior nonprofit people and encourage them to get involved
> with ICANN.
>
> In short, we have a lot of real work to do.
>
> Maria
>
> On 13 January 2012 05:19, Sarah El Ebiary <sarahelebiary at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure how it is in Kenya, but doesn't the head of the Red Cross in
>> the USA make an unconscionably high salary? I read it was upwards of half a
>> million US dollars per year. When I read that, I vowed to be more careful
>> about donating to disaster relief fundraisers and all charities that cannot
>> be monitored or accountable penny for penny.
>>
>> Sometimes I feel like it's a huge scam.
>> Haiti. Katrina. ASPCA. Etc.
>>
>> Unless my donations are going from my hand (or perhaps from a close
>> friend or another family member's hand on the ground) directly to the
>> mouths of the needy, then tragedies of waste such as this can certainly be
>> avoided.
>>
>> Too bad...
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2012 8:24 PM, "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:37 AM, warigia bowman <warigia at aucegypt.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Yes, except the cu...
>>
>>
>> Yeah right! But be sure not to tarnish the "very reputable organisation"
>> on a blog post. DO NOT include adverse links to such a post - because if
>> you do? And SOPA/PIPA pass, your entire blog site could be pulled down
>> after they complain to the "relevant online Copyright/IP Authorities." So
>> much free speech to expose basic human rights (food, clothes and shelter)
>> injustices going forward, right?
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Sarah El Ebiary <
>> sarahelebiary at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Popul...
>>
>>
>> >>>
>> >>> This is crazy. Why do you think this happened?
>>
>> My guess is as good as anyone's. Maybe the local initiative's success
>> threatened their foodchain? Global fundraising system? Hence KILL! future
>> prospects of all such local initiatives likes of: (re:
>> http://www.the-star.co.ke/national/national/34256-kenyans4kenyans-kitty-raises-over-sh81million) ? That disrupt precious dollars from out there from percolating through
>> an otherwise "properly established system"? Collected putting up an
>> 'angelic' face as a tool to demand special protections by *everyone*
>> (including on icann policies)? To put brakes on emergent, terrible,
>> "Kenyans4Kenyans" model that diminishes their longstanding, global
>> established brand as "the only ones who truly care" impression? Maybe the
>> starving do not live at the NGO's "politically correct" dry Northern Kenya
>> areas? Or releasing the food to the starving would have meant the problem
>> is REALLY  getting solved therefore Kenyan could stop giving more food,
>> more money? I have no idea what on earth motivated them to do such inhuman
>> acts, but you bet we're pissed off with Red Cross!
>>
>> Today is among the worst days for *anyone* to dare shower Red Cross with
>> traditional praises over here.
>>
>>
>


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