I absolutely and wholeheartedly agree with Robin!
Kim
On 22 Jan 2010, at 12:18, Robin Gross wrote:
> ICANN would send a terrible message to the world if it cancelled this meeting in Nairobi. Now is when the world is looking to ICANN to be more international and to open-up its processes away from only the small handful of privileged Western businessmen that have traditionally managed the org.
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> I hope ICANN will not perpetuate these overblown fears about Nairobi and insult much of the world by canceling the mtg. because certain ($$) people have been frightened by the media into staying home.
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> If ICANN wants to be a truly international governance institution, it cannot be afraid of Africa. Time for ICANN to grow-up and go into Africa with or without the entourage of elite Western businessmen.
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> My 2 cents,
> Robin
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> On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
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>> Right now São Paulo is under a wave of protests in the poor communities
>> (which is more than 70% of that city of 11 million) against local public
>> policies. This is motivated by the poor record of the local and state
>> government in handling sanitation, flood prevention and urban
>> development. Some communities are under water and sewage for more than
>> 40 days now. As expected, the local police reacts with the usual
>> stupidity and violence breaks up. But the big media is aligned with the
>> state government, and nearly no news of these protests circulates,
>> except in the many alternative blogs.
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>> Since what happened in Nairobi involves a "fashionable" religious
>> conflict, big media blew it out of proportion, it seems.
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>> --c.a.
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>> McTim wrote:
>>> Bill,
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>>> I haven't cross posted to ALAC or any other list, but want to give NCUC
>>> members a first hand perspective.
>>>
>>> Nairobi is no less safe now than when ICANN decided to hold its March 2010
>>> meeting here. Last weeks violence happened because police banned a
>>> demonstration from happening after Friday prayers. The Jamaican cleric was
>>> deported last night. It was a very, very small scale skirmish. I've been in
>>> far worse riots in Washington D.C.
>>>
>>> It would be an over reaction IMHO to cancel or move the March meeting from
>>> Nairobi at this point. Kenyan and other African stakeholders who are
>>> looking forward to the meeting would be very annoyed indeed, and with good
>>> reason.
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Carlos A. Afonso
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