[governance] Innovation

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

 -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Auerbach [mailto:karl at cavebear.com]
> 
> It is good to hear that people are getting interested.
> 
> Was it you who mentioned previously that you thought that the Director
> elected for LA in year 2000 did not fully represent the Caribbean area?

Yes, it was. And I note that yet again you write LA, not LAC. So - if as you
say, the Director was elected for LA - not LAC,  obviously they didn't
represent  the Caribbean at ALL, as there isn't even the single letter that
includes us in the regional name.  

>   Do you think that the ALAC - a channel in which your regions views
> are
> filtered and then filtered and then filtered again - is as good as
> having a Director you can chose and elect?


I disagree with the premise - I don't think that  the views are " filtered
and then filtered and then filtered again". And honestly, once one elects a
Director, until the next election, there's no accountability - or that's
what I am accustomed to here. The elected person or persons can choose to
put forward the regional views or their personal ones, as they want. At the
end, they can be voted out, but the next person will do exactly the same
thing.  In the current case, all the views are going forward, without
filtration. 
  
> Back here in the US there was a thing known as a "company union" - see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_union

OK... I don't see the analogy, but ...
 
> If you were drowning, as internet users are, in a sea of powerlessness,
> and if given a choice between the ALAC, and its nearly vacuous ability
> to hold ICANN to account, and real elections for real identifiable
> people - including themselves if they chose to run, don't you think
> that many, perhaps most would chose elections?

Yet again, I disagree with the base concept here. I think that Internet
users in the Caribbean are drowning in a sea of lack of information, lack of
infrastructure, lack of affordable technology; not powerlessness that can be
fixed with a vote. We need information, outreach, we need to know and
understand what the issues are. Then we can determine what we think about
those issues and then we can say- this is what we want/need. An election
system won't do that IMO. NGOs and information campaigns and technology
transfer and training programs will. And the ALSes can work on that, and
they can get support from ICANN and other organizations to do that. 

Honestly, I think that you are coming from a place that is so different to
the reality here that it's  almost impossible to relate. 

Jacqueline

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