Re: [ga] Increased foreign attendance

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted and all,

  Honestly I cannot see any reason why this Ginger person and the
organization
she perports to represent is a bad choice for Theresa Swinehart to have
selected.  However why after many attempts by members of the GA whom
have ask for travel expenses, ect., in the passed over in favor of
organizations
like DiploFoundation.  Maybe Theresa or some other staff member would
be willing to please address that concern?

Thank you Theresa, or whomever reports directly to you, for your
cooperation in advance regarding this concern.

Prophet Partners Inc. wrote:

>    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
>

Regards,

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