RE: [ga] Increased foreign attendance

["Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Responses in line:

> >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.

It is as democratic as possible -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_elections,_2006


> >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?

Lucky you, I am still payng for my house.  The point is, my dear, you have
an income and a house and... CHOICE!  


> >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.

Why?  If they can learn something that will assist them in forming policies
and providing services to their people where is the harm?  


> >
> >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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