<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Dear people, </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">We, the members of the Youth Observatory SIG of ISOC, are activately working for participating on the internet building process. As part of the young people engaged on the internet debates we kindly ask you to consider the following arguments supporting the work of ICANNWiki.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Our members have been actively engaged in editing the platform despite having any direct involvement with ICANN. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">ICANNWiki gives us remote access to a process of consolidating and building confidence to keep track of the developments in the field of Internet governance and DNS policy. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">For us, the Wiki plays an important and innovative role in many aspects of Youth Engagement and Capacity Building on Internet. We believe that cutting ICANNWiki's funding will have a significant negative impact on ICANN and on the Internet Governance community.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Please, see the full open letter here (<a href="http://www.obdjuv.org/activity/news/a-letter-in-support-of-icannwiki" target="_blank">http://www.obdjuv.org/<wbr>activity/news/a-letter-in-<wbr>support-of-icannwiki</a>)</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">P.S. The letter is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, please click on the flag to select the language.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Best, </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2" color="#666666"><i>Verónica Arroyo</i></font></b></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2" color="#666666" style=""><i style="">Vice President</i></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2" color="#666666" style=""><i style="">Youth Observatory</i></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:small">@veroluiza</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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