Re: [ga] Substance over rhetoric - a constructive challenge

[Esther Dyson <edyson@edventure.com>]

hence, my suggestion for a *fulltime* person in charge of precisely such 
(or precisely such that were missing!) coordination efforts!

DO I hear some support here?

Esther

At 04:18 AM 3/19/2002, Thomas Roessler wrote:
>On 2002-03-19 07:39:16 +0000, Roberto Gaetano wrote:
>
>>You might remember that at an ICANN meeting (I think it was
>>Yokohama, but I may be wrong) I raised the issue of what to do after the 
>>election with the at-large members, and the need to keep the momentum 
>>going, avoiding forgetting about the electorate until time for new 
>>elections. This is unfortunately exactly what happened.
>
>In fact, even the simplest "networking" efforts were not supported by 
>ICANN: Back then, I had started the icann-europe mailing list (which is 
>kind of dead by now, but was quite alive back then).  I tried for more 
>than half a year (and with countless e-mails) to convince ICANN staff to 
>add a link to that mailing list's web site to one of their link pages. I 
>wrote to Esther who was the chairman of the board back then, and she 
>agreed that it would be a good idea, and told staff.
>
>The person in charge of the elections back then (sorry, I forgot the name) 
>even told me she was working on an FAQ on that. The last thing I heard 
>(several months after the exchange of e-mails with Esther) was that the 
>FAQ couldn't be put online because there was nothing on the Asian and 
>African regions so far (or something like that), and it could only be put 
>online in its entirety.
>
>No such FAQ was ever put up, to the best of my knowledge.  Now, guess what 
>kind of message that kind of behaviour sent.
>
>--
>Thomas Roessler                          http://log.does-not-exist.org/


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