This is painfully true. Conference and Workshop tourism? No wonder the situation has not improved. Sad eh? Yassin
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:22:21 -0700 From: dannyyounger@yahoo.com To: at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [At-Large] Travel Funding
It has been about a month since the ICANN Board announced that the At-Large Community will be permitted to appoint a director to the Board, so one would have thought that there would have been an immediate flurry of on-line discussion in all of the regions in order to quickly turn this long-held dream of at-large representation into a reality.
But there are no online discussions on this topic on the African list, nor on the European list, nor on the Latin American list nor on the Asia-Pacific list. It's just another ho-hum moment for those non-commercial organizations that are pretending to be the at-large in exchange for travel funding to ICANN sessions.
These orgs obviously don't care about board-level representation and obviously don't care about the real at-large community -- they are pretenders; they can't be bothered to "do" anything other than to hold out their hands in anticipation of travel vouchers.
Have we seen any notices posted at the local level about the upcoming at-Large director appointment? Of course not. ALS representatives can't be bothered to inform their own local communities.
The whole process is a sham and always has been.
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