Re: [ga] Re: Re: Hackers Hijacking ICANN Elections?

[jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de]

Louise, 
many thanks for your kind replay.

> > I can't believe this. Do you really think that germans 
communicate in
> > german only?

> No, of course not - sorry I cut off the part of the previous mail that
> referred to Donnerhacke etc and the Chaos Computer Club in the follow up
> mail:
 

> all the links that he provides are to pages in German, and the search
> engine ones I have found also. 

A simple, non-nationalistic explanation for this would be that many 
european candidates were not well prepared for the sudden 
international attention they've got. However, all of the candidates 
are more or less able to express themselves in english.  

> > icann-europe@fitug.de is a mailing list for european candidates and
> > voters.
> > Its archive can be found here: http://angua.rince.de/icann-europe/
> 
> Excellent, thanks for telling me about it. How many people know about it? Is
> http://angua.rince.de a reasonably well-known site among people interested
> in ICANN issues?

The owner of the list has asked  all european candidates to 
subscribe. At least two of the officially nominated candidates are 
among the subscribers; Schueller from German Telekom as a 
lurker, Alf Hansen from Scandinavia as an active participant. 
Last week some 130 people had subscribed to the list. 

This list is the first attempt to initiate a transnational discussion 
among the european at large members. We are still at an early 
stage, however, I'd expect the list to grow in the near future. 

And a final remark about our allegedly german campaigning. Most 
of the european candidates havn't done any active campaigning so 
far. It's the german press that approaches us and asks for 
interviews or background information. 
As some of you may know, the european public sphere is still very 
fragmented. While the german press has covered the election quite 
extensively, the major papers in GB, France, Italy, Austria, 
Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands and so on have preferred to 
ignore the matter. 
Thus, the german focus should be regarded as an effect rather
than an intention on the candidates'  side. 
I don't feel comfortable with this situation - not least because it 
does injustice to non-german candidates. Any practical 
suggestions as to how this imbalance could be changed are 
welcome and may be directed to icann-europe@fitug.de 

 
jeanette 
> >
> > Hopefully, this of any help for further background investigations.
> >
> > jeanette
> >
> >
> >
> >  This geographical constituency
> > > thing is really artificial. Here we vote in the dark or don't vote at
> > > all.
> > >
> > > Louise
> > >
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