RE: [ga] Increased foreign attendance

[jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Debbie and all,

  My response/remarks interspersed below.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Debbie Garside <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jun 28, 2007 4:54 AM
>To: sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ga] Increased foreign attendance
>
>Hi 
>
>Just a couple of small observations not directed at anyone but rather for
>the thread as a whole.  Technically government ministries (supposedly)
>represent the people who elected them. 

 Haiti doesn't have a democratically elected government.
>
>On a further note, many of us (probably most in this forum) have an option
>as to whether we spend our money going to ICANN meetings.  Questions like:
>is it worth the expense or is it not?  Do I want to spend my money on this
>or shall I have an extra holiday with my family? Can I afford the time?
>Etc.  Come into play.  For some the prospect of going to an ICANN meeting
>means spending 4 years (+) income!  Not really an option is it!
>http://www.cbuhaiti.org/about_haiti.htm   

Yes there always is a option.  As a matter of fact, I spent
nearly 10years of my income on the property and the house
I live in.  So I am failing to see your point.  Can you
expand further?
>
>I, for one, applaud the initiative.  I wish there were more such. If there
>were no such initiative, no doubt, members of this forum would be beating
>ICANN around the head with a big stick demanding it!  Perhaps we could
>change the essence of this thread to how ICANN can improve their "Inclusion
>Initiatives" as opposed to griping about participants being "paid" to
>attend.

  I have no problem with ICANN paying financially challanged
individuals to attend.  I DO have a problem with those
whom ICANN pays to attend from "exotic lands" to be corporate
representatives or government officials of various sorts.  To
do so is one of the worst forms of nepotism.
>
>Regards
>
>Debbie Garside
>
> 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
>> sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: 27 June 2007 22:08
>> To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [ga] Increased foreign attendance
>> 
>> Oh yeah... real PUBLIC participation... employess of 
>> government ministries and telcos...  Seems more like a stooge 
>> version of the GAC and Business Constituency, but without the 
>> suit jackets and ties...
>> 
>> Is anyone really surprised by this?
>> 
>> Yup!  These people will definitely make a difference in ICANN 
>> which will work to the benefit of the PUBLIC... LMAO!
>> 
>> SS
>> 
>> 
>> >> 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
>> >>
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