>Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:00:09 -0400
>From: "Jacqueline Morris" <jam@jacquelinemorris.com>
>To: "Deirdre Williams" <deirdrewilliams2000@yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: ICANN etc.
>Cc: cardicis@funredes.org, CIVIC
><icacaribbean@dgroups.org>,
>mistica-t@funredes.org, "Daniel Pimienta"
><pimienta@funredes.org>, "Jacob Malthouse" <jacob.malthouse@icann.org>
>
>> 1. "We" do not know enough about ICANN and
>> its functions although some of us are very much better informed than others.
>>(...) In the spirit of self-reflection, can
>>this response be improved? How? What are the
>>impediments? Jacob is now working punctiliously to inform us.
>>Perhaps Jacob could provide background
>>documents, or links, which seem to him to fill
>>the knowledge gaps that have made themselves
>>apparent, to the various clearinghouses with a
>>BRIEF cover message describing content. After
>>that it becomes up to us to read :-)
>
>I'd add - not just ICANN - the IGF is forming,
>there are many other major initiatives starting
>up and we don't have enough info about them. The
>IETF, the "Global Alliance" (ex UNICT TF), etc.
>
>>3. Priorities - who should decide them and what
>>are they? Consultation is often tedious, yet
>>surely there is an ethical responsibility to
>>get some sense of what the people the project
>>is for think about the way it is going to be carried out
>
>Who are the people the project is for? If we
>think that it is for "us", then It is required
>that "we" proactively get involved in advance,
>or as early as possible, esp as no-one outside
>knows about "us"! Thus they can't necessarily
>check with "us". This is partially why I
>stepped up at ICANN and WSIS - so that
>Anglophone Caribbean people are somewhat in the
>loop. More non-anglophones need to do this as well.
>
>>4 Perceptions, what "we" assume that "we" all
>>take for granted. This debate has spread
>>rapidly through CARDICIS and CIVIC to MISTICA.
>>Might this not create an opportunity for
>>increased articulation among the three groups?
>
>Slight confusion - I know CARDICIS and CIVIC -
>I'm involved with CIVIC and somewhat with
>CARDICIS - which group is Mistica now?
>And what does that one do?
>
>Additional items:
>There is a lot of space for misunderstanding as
>non-native speaking people dont speak/read the
>same as native speakers... given that the
>translation of the lists exists, maybe
>non-native speakers should check back the
>translation/interpretation of the message before
>responding. (I know that I do that with messages
>in Spanish or French - just to make sure that it
>really says what I thought it said) - even
>though the translation is automatic and thus horribly suspect.
>
>>Other people will have noticed other things and
>>be able to add to the list. I think that the
>>current debate offers a really good learning,
>>growing, clarifying experience. What does everyone else think?
>
>
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