Re: [ga] Re: Outreach

[k@widgital.com (Kristy McKee)]

Although I do care if the shoe shine boys of Vietnam can't afford a domain 
name, I also agree with Sotiris about ICANN's mission creep.  ICANN needs 
to belly up to the tasks they agreed to handle and put all these great 
ideas on a list and get their house clean and orderly and FUNCTIONING prior 
to fussing with more.


At 05:05 PM 11/14/2001 -0800, Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
>Eric Dierker wrote:
>
> > Developing IT Countries need to increase domestic use of the Internet 
> in order to reduce shared costs of
> > the infrastructure, we cannot do this through individually owned 
> computers for many reasons, (overuse
> > being one), until we gradually increase infrastructure.
>
>ICANN is not here to address the economic development of developing 
>countries.  That is not parts of its
>mission.
>
>Frankly, I don't care if the shoeshine boys of Vietnam can't afford a 
>domain name (or internet access).  There
>are plenty of people in the developed world who cannot afford either!  The 
>trend towards leaning over
>backwards so some third world nation (that has most likely sucked up 
>billions in aid packages) can have an
>equal say in something they had no equal share in developing is sheer 
>lunacy.  I'm sure there are plenty of
>people in Vietnam with domain names AND internet access.  the rest will 
>either get online when they can afford
>to, or not.  I don't see how/why the ICANN needs to address (indeed cater 
>to) the needs of the Third World
>Internet User, when they haven't even looked at addressing the desires of 
>those in the Developed World!  This
>is a sideshow designed to steal attention from the things that really 
>matter!  I will not sit back and watch
>such a farce without speaking up about it.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Sotiris Sotiropoulos
>
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