Thanks Sam
Very instructive.
Remmy

On Feb 15, 2017 8:35 AM, "Sam Lanfranco" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> NCSG & NPOC Colleagues,
>
> In today's NCSG discussion with ICANN CEO Goran Marby a question was
> raised about the impact of the U.S. Executive Order of the travel freedom
> of Foreign (non-US) nationals on ICANN. I would like to add the below as
> food for thought. This is the third sector research group I have worked
> with for more than a decade. This is their brief statement:
>
> Sam Lanfranco, NCSG/NPOC/ISTR
>
> http://www.istr.org/news/330758/ISTR-Statement-on-Freedom-
> for-Academic-Exchange.htm
>
> ISTR Statement on Freedom for Academic Exchange
>
> Research associations, through their membership meetings, provide forums
> in which participants exercise their freedom of scholarly expression and
> debate.  The International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), made
> up of over 900 members from over 74 countries around the world, regularly
> convenes to exchange knowledge and advance research on civil society,
> nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and philanthropy. Our
> expertise and insights are built upon freedom of expression, association
> and travel.  Our nations and communities are richer and stronger because
> individuals have had assured rights to travel, to meet, to speak and to
> publish, and to freely exchange knowledge and ideas.  The protection and
> exercise of these rights have been essential building blocks of healthy and
> democratic civil societies.
>
> As citizens as well as scholars of many countries around the globe, we are
> alarmed and deeply disturbed by the Executive Order issued on January 27,
> 2017, entitled, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into
> the United States.”  We respectfully call upon the administration to
> rescind this order.  These travel restrictions exclude global scholars from
> academic forums in our field and curtails our freedom of scholarly
> expression.  In addition, the targeted exclusion of scholars from
> particular countries will negatively impact and seriously hamper the
> advancement of knowledge and the resulting policies and practices flowing
> from this knowledge in these areas of study.
>
> As members of the board of directors of ISTR, and as scholars of civil
> society, we issue this statement to express our alarm and deep concern,
> particularly at a time when global democratic exchange is of utmost
> importance. Our concern is for all of our colleagues who are prevented from
> engaging in peaceful democratic discussion. We thus call upon our
> colleagues, institutions, and governments to support democratic freedoms
> and scholarly exchange.
>
> Steven Rathgeb Smith, ISTR President
> Ruth Phillips, ISTR President-Elect
> Annette Zimmer, ISTR Past President
> Margery B. Daniels, ISTR Executive Director
>