<div dir="ltr">Please accept my condolences George. May Jo-Anne rest in peace.<div>Fatimata</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 16 août 2019 à 15:58, George Sadowsky <<a href="mailto:governance@lists.riseup.net">governance@lists.riseup.net</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div>I'm very sad to hear of Jo-Anne Scott's passing. She was a good colleague and At 1145 a good friend.</div><div><br></div><div>I first met Jo-Anne at a meeting in Palo Alto in September 1992, hosted by Steve From and Scott Weikert. A few months before that, I had discussed with Larry Landweber at INET'92 in Kobe the possibility of setting up a training program in Internet technology and use for people from developing countries. In the 1970s and 1980s, I worked for the United Nations and was involved in many technology transfer programs in the area of computing, and I had seen to my dismay the state of technical knowledge, education, and resources in most of the countries in which I had worked. Larry suggested giving it a try. Steve Fram was one of the early collaborators, and we were meeting in his office in Palo Alto to do the initial planning. </div><div><br></div><div>Jo-Anne attended the meeting, I had not known her before, but her enthusiasm for the project and solving logistical aspects of making it happen were contagious, so we became the initial band of co-conspirators for what became ISOC's network technologies training program for people from developing countries. Since INET'93 was planned for San Francisco in August 1993, we decided to hold the training workshop in the Silicon Valley just before the INET meeting, and then have the trainees participate also in that meeting. We believe that the latter step was important in introducing them to the people we hoped would be their future Internet colleagues and would assist them in the developments in their own countries.</div><div><br></div><div>At the time I was working at New York University and was not situated to assist in local preparation for the workshop. Joanne lived in Palo Alto, and she believed that she could work with Stanford University to provide lodging, classroom space, and meals for the trainees and trainers during August 1993. She set about to do it with a vigor, enthusiasm, and initiative that characterized her contributions to the workshop for the next five years.. She convinced the University to provide dormitory space, meal arrangements,and suitable classroom space for the entire process, and she coordinated all of the preparatory work, including the procurement, delivery, and set up for a large number of personal computers to be used by the three training tracks. She also arranged for several social events in the evenings to foster a sense of professional community among the attendees, as well as to meet local people who lived in the Palo Alto area. I remember her setting up a fireside chat with Vint Cerf one evening, which resulted in a spirited discussion of the potential of the Internet and the importance of what it could provide for development.</div><div><br></div><div>At the end of INET' 93, Jo-Anne and I had dinner with the INET'94 conference chair, and after reviewing the success of our workshop, we decided to do it again, a decision that was repeated for several years after that. Although it may not have been clear to the workshop participants, the amount of logistical preparation required to set up the Prague workshop in 1994 was immense. Only a few years had elapsed since the erosion of the iron curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia was in a rapid state of change. Joanne cooperated with the Czech Technical University to find space for housing in the Hotel Krystal, a tram ride away from the University buildings in which staff would be teaching the four tracks. The Hotel Krystal even had a computer lab with 24 computers, connected to the Internet via a low-bandwidth permanent connection. During the workshop, Jo-Anne learned that our Hotel Krystal had only been a hotel for a few years and before that it had been the training institute for the Czech secret police. We wondered how many microphones were still installed in various parts of the building, including the sleeping rooms. Jo-Anne also discovered the "Chicago Pizza House" (not a typo!) in an underground warren near the hotel, where we went for relief several times to escape the rich Czech food offerings.</div><div><br></div><div>Jo-Anne continued to participate actively in and support the workshop activities in 1995 in Honolulu, in 1996 in Montréal and in 1997 in Kuala Lumpur. In 1994 she discovered the local travel agent in Palo Alto, Maria Orvell, who worked with Joanne and together they became accomplished in bringing people from all parts of the world to wherever the next INET meeting was going to be held.</div><div><br></div><div>The process of choosing and assisting participants to attend the workshops was extensive. Applications were solicited through a number of channels, including disseminating information by participants in formal workshops. These all came to Jo-Anne and she prepared them for evaluation by a committee consisting of the teaching staff for the next workshop. After that, the complex process of distributing the financial resources that we were able to obtain, ascertaining the possibility of visas and helping participants to obtain them (including making intercessions with the host country), and making flight arrangements, and this generally had to be performed individually for each participant. The logistics process took a lot of time andinitiative, and Joanne was able to do it, always in time to meet our deadlines.</div><div><br></div><div>Jo-Anne was a true partner. She embodied the spirit of the Internet, helping, sharing, supporting, and giving of herself so that others might learn and in turn share with a new with others in their country. She believed strongly in the Internet's ability to help people in earlier stages of development, and she gave herself fully to the task. Many workshop participants saw her correctly as fundamental to the success of their experience. I'm glad that she lived long enough to observe the benefits of her contribution to global Internet development, but very sad that she was not able to continue to do so. She will be missed.</div><div><br></div><div>George</div><div><br></div><div>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Fatimata Seye Sylla<br>ICT4D, Education & Genre<br><br> </div>