Not a great summary because it left out that ICANN considers China a developing country, which is outrageous, for ICANN to deny fellowships to poor people from developed countries and their territories, such as the U.S. Oligarchy, is absurd. 51% of families in the U.S. Oligarchy are living in poverty. ICANN's arguement is that many of its staff are european, so that is an admission of discrimination against the american and european poor who once against are the victims of their fraud "government", not allwed to apply for fellowships. And the leadership program, where a poor person from a developed country might have a chance, has only met twice or three times, it's a complete joke, which is what an oligarchy pretending to be. democracy is as well.

Ron



From: Alfredo Calderon <calderon.alfredo@gmail.com>;
To: Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn@gmail.com>;
Cc: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>;
Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] US Territories
Sent: Sat, Nov 7, 2015 10:39:49 AM

Glenn:

Thank you for sharing a great summary of the reality of U.S. Territories.  Precisely, here in Puerto Rico we ave been having many dialogues among ISOCPR constituents on how equality in treatment when dealing with grant submission occurs. Puerto Rico is a great example when we talk about who we are representing in ISOC versus ICANN.

When we apply for grants and fellowships it is sometimes difficult to give a reality check to those seeing us as U.S. citizens without the full stnading (rights) as "continental" citizens.

Great point made when some see us as "inmigrants" in U.S. when we actually have a U.S . passport that states that we are "American citizens", and by the way "not national - but full american citizens".

Again, thanks for sharing...

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On Nov 6, 2015, at 11:03 PM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn@gmail.com> wrote:

We have  raising the issue  for  a couple of  years of the unfairness of those  US  territories left out our  the  ICANN fellowship program.  Interesting these locations  have more issues with their own government 
Here is  John  Oliver's  piece on the more on the inequity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE
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