[NCUC-DISCUSS] Resigning from representing the Open Institute in NCUC

[Nuno M. Garcia]

Dear Norbert,

You are an example to me, and for this I thank you.

I hope to, some day, also be able to say that I have made a contribution to
the development of the Internet, even if it is a smaller one.

But you are leaving this list, are you?

Warm regards

Nuno Garcia, Portugal

On 4 Feb 2017 06:49, "Norbert Klein" <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:

> Dear Friends in the NCUC Fellowship,
>
> My first participation was in the Santiago de Chile meeting, 24-26 August
> 1999. I just happened to be in Germany for personal reasons around that
> time, and so the additional air fare from Germany to Chile was cheaper than
> if I had to pay from Cambodia to Chile. An Internet veteran from another
> country in Asia who knew about my work in Cambodia helped to pay the hotel
> costs in Chile. - I had established the first Internet access from Cambodia
> via UUCP, using expensive international telephone dial-up, establishing and
> operating for some years the ccTLD for the country: .kh for “Khmer”, then,
> organizing with international and Cambodian friends to define the Khmer
> script for Unicode. And such work continued after Santiago de Chile,
> getting the Khmer script accepted in Unicode, helping to get a team with
> competent leadership working on creating Cambodian language software – Open
> Source, including Linux – with applications for text, e-mail, Web etc. All
> this when I was on the staff of the Open Forum, later the Open Institute of
> Cambodia, which is also the basis for our NCUC membership.
>
> If I remember correctly, Santiago was also one of the first meetings of
> the beginning of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency within ICANN. We did
> not use so much acronyms like “NCUC” - the full name signaled what we were
> standing for: a constituency which did not consider commercial values a top
> priority in the development of the Internet. And it was a stepping stone
> towards the UDRP...
>
> I am happy to have been part of this history – as member, then in the NCUC
> executive committee, later sent to represent our voice in the GNSO, and
> finally for two years in the ICANN Nomination Committee.
>
> Time is running – I am no longer in the capital city of Phnom Penh, but
> old and – actively – retired far away in the countryside. Between some
> hills, there is only a not so stable access to the Internet - “The Internet
> is for everyone?” well, not - and not only because of financial or
> technical restrictions.
>
> With this mail I want to announce my resignation from representing the
> Open Institute of Cambodia in the Non-Commercial Users Constituency – I
> have the agreement of Open Institute leadership; there is nobody who will
> take over from me.
>
> Thanks for all the good cooperation in the past – the struggles for
> clarity and acceptance, and the commitment to our goals, even when things
> were going into directions we did not want to identify with.
>
> Anybody visiting Cambodia? You are welcome – let me know.
>
> Norbert Klein
> nhklein at gmx.net
> Kep / Cambodia
>
>
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