RE: [ga] Increased foreign attendance

["Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ted
 
I would say that Ginger would be an ideal candidate for funding as she is
involved with disseminating information to less well off countries - a many
for the price of one situation!  I'm sure she could also be quite good at
volley ball but I looked fairly closely at the video and I don't see a ring
through her nose with a rope attached which probably means she has a mind of
her own.  
 
If you were devising an inclusion process for ICANN how would you go about
including developing nations?  Or perhaps you think there should not be an
inclusion process for developing nations?
 
best regards
 
Debbie Garside
 
 


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From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Prophet Partners Inc.
Sent: 28 June 2007 12:47
To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ga] Increased foreign attendance


Hi Eric,
 

"ICANN's unique role is global in nature so it's important that we not only
invite the world to participate in our organization - we also need to find
ways to get involvement from developing nations and regions that might not
otherwise be able to participate," said Theresa Swinehart, ICANN's Vice
President, Global and Strategic Partnerships.

 
This nonsense is a complete waste of registrants' money. To us, it is
strictly a public relations stunt aimed at improving ICANN's image. We would
not be the least bit surprised to find ICANN using this sham to support a
ploy to become an international organization. Rather than getting people who
have an active interest in ICANN to participate (i.e. the people on this
mailing list), ICANN funds a bunch of stooges from developing countries that
they can lead around by the nose.
 
Although video and audio quality of the YouTube video is overall very poor,
it is possible to make out what some people were saying. The woman named
Ginger who started speaking at 02:21 says she is a tutor for the bilingual
Spanish/English group at the DiploFoundation. From their About Us page
http://www.diplomacy.edu/ig/About/default.asp , "DiploFoundation is a
non-profit organisation which works to assist all countries, particularly
those with limited human and financial resources, to participate
meaningfully in international affairs, through education and training
programs, research, and the development of information and communications
technologies for diplomatic activities." Ginger said that she is hoping to
fill in some holes in her technical issues as she tends more to the
education of social issues and human rights. These are the type of people
that ICANN selects for fellowship participants. Perhaps the real reason she
was invited was to fill a hole in ICANN's volleyball tournament lineup.
 
Sincerely,
Ted
Prophet Partners Inc.
http://www.ProphetPartners.com
http://www.Premium-Domain-Names.com

 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Hugh Dierker 
To: ga 
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:11 PM
Subject: [ga] Increased foreign attendance

This is a perfect example of how numbers get skewed. The amazing part is
that they are blowing their trumpets over it,
<http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-26jun07.htm>
They pay these peoples to attend. To bad I no longer live in a distant
exotic land.
I cannot believe that they did not see this article as a bad idea.
 
Eric