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 >