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 Glenn McKnight mcknight.glenn@gmail.com skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight .
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... Sent from my "iPad Air" Alfredo Calderón Email: calderon.alfredo@gmail.com Twylah: http://www.twylah.com/acalderon52 Twitter: acalderon52 Skype: Alfredo_1212 Business card: http://myonepage.com/ acalderon Scoop.it: http://www.scoop.it/t/aprendiendo-a-distancia Blog: http://aprendizajedistancia.blogspot.com Twitter news: http://paper.li/ acalderon52
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
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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
"This is a means- tested program. Applicants must either be citizens of eligible countries listed in the World Bank classification as low, lower-middle, and upper-middle economies, or listed in one of the three (3) UN groupings of developing and least developed nations: the AIMS, Pacific and Caribbean which are all Members of SIDN and eligible for consideration in the Program. The UN Listing of SIDN is based on distinctly different criteria that stretch beyond the World Bank's economically deterministic view." Why is ICANN adhering to the rules of the World Bank? Who decided that and why? ICANN can and should be capable of thinking for itself as an organization at all times. A vote to abandon any adherence to the World Bank which has nothing to do with ICANN should be brought forth, to rewrite this policy asap. ICANN members and participants are not employees of the World Bank, there is no partnership between ICANN and the World Bank. What the fellowship policy amounts to is laziness to otherwise think of an independent metric. Ron
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