Re: [ga] Increased foreign attendance

["Prophet Partners Inc." <Domains@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Veni,

Why is it that every time someone disagrees with your viewpoint, you have to 
deride them as being negativist? Your tone is uncannily similar to religious 
leaders who automatically call anyone challenging their beliefs as a 
heretic. It's hardly surprising that you prefer interacting with people who 
are subservient to you (humble and quiet) vs. people like those on this list 
who aren't afraid to speak out.

So please enlighten us. Tell us more about these people who are bringing the 
Internet back to their countries for the benefit of their societies. How 
many and what percentage of the people in these countries have electricity, 
much less a computer? How many and what percentage of the people in these 
countries can read, much less write or type? How many and what percentage of 
the people in these societies are really going to benefit from the Internet 
in any significant way? To make it easy for you, we'll define significant as 
+10% improvement in income or mortality. Of course the fellowship 
participants are not representing commercial interests. How could they, when 
their countries don't even have industrialized societies? It remains to be 
seen the level of constructiveness offered by these participants.

Sincerely,
Ted
Prophet Partners Inc.
http://www.ProphetPartners.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veni Markovski" <veni@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Prophet Partners Inc." <Domains@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
<ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Increased foreign attendance


> This is another example of how one can approach what's happening ar ICANN.
> No wonder the normal participant prefers to communicate with people
> who are not so blind as these "us" of which Ted is speaking. Instead
> of syaing a good word about the newcomers, it seems like the "old
> guys" are angry. The Internet doesn't begin and doesn't end with the
> negativism of such people.
> The interests of the fellows have little to do with the hidden (and
> not so hiddeb) agenda of these "us". I saw and talked to many of them.
> These are people who are not like "you". They are humble, educated,
> and quiet people, who bring the Internet in their countries for the
> benefit of their societies. They are not representing the commercial
> registrants, and certainly they are not charged with "your"
> negativism.
> No wonder "you" are angry that such constructive people participate in
> the ICANN process.
>
> Veni
>
> On 6/28/07, Prophet Partners Inc. <Domains@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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