[NCUC-EC] Out of contact

[William Drake]

Hi Norbert

Thanks for the information, I was indeed sort of wondering what's up.  I can certainly imagine that rural Cambodia is not the best location bandwidth-wise from which to deal with the all the work-related Exec. Comm. mail.

As to what if anything to do, it's up to you.  It is certainly true that we have a bunch of labor-intensive initiatives underway concerning organizational capacity building that really need more active hands contributing and sharing the load.  If you think you would be able to help with these going forward, great.  If you think you won't be, then we can either leave things as they are until the next election in December, or we could appoint a new Asia 'representative' to the EC as an interim until then.  Your call entirely…

Best,

Bill



On Jun 9, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net> wrote:

> Dear Friends on these Lists,
> 
> today, I would like to explain why I have been silent for so many weeks: At the beginning of March 2013, I moved from Phnom Penh to Kep - about 4 to 5 hours by bus south of Phnom Penh. I do not live in the city of Kep, but about half an hour away by a rural motorcycle-taxi.
> 
> What I had not checked before moving there was wireless Internet connection – believing the claim of a dozen Internet service providers that they cover the whole country. Now, the "Father of the Internet in Cambodia" (as I am sometimes called in the local newspapers) is again suffering from the "digital divide," which I had tried to close when I started the first Internet provider system in Cambodia in 1994.
> 
> I am in negotiations with several ISPs in the region, trying to find out if anything could be done to overcome this isolation. So far, there is not yet much hope, because they would add coverage only if they could expect several hundred new user in that area - and that is completely beyond any realistic projection.
> 
> Though I still hope to get Internet access again in the not too distant future, or have access by traveling regularly to places covered, I wanted to share this. Also, as a member of the Executive Committee, I am not living up to my expected obligations (and I am aware of it) - so I would like to ask for a frank discussion whether and when and how I should be replaced.
> 
> At present, I am in Phnom Penh for a few days, having Internet access, and I am struggling to wade through several thousand e-mail headers.
> 
> Greetings to all - please remember that the digital divide continues to exists, in spite of all the discussions about net neutrality and universal broadband access etc. etc.
> 
> 
> Norbert Klein
> 
> All new:
> 
> Tel: +855 - 88 9513015
> P. O. Box 9829 
> Kep
> Cambodia
> 
> 
> 
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William J. Drake
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  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
william.drake at uzh.ch  
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