[At-Large] [ALAC-Internal] Current Nominees / Volunteers List

[Evan Leibovitch]

Jeanette Hofmann wrote:

> Civil society not representing the needs and interests you wanted to see
> represented in Geneva and civil society being a European/academic
> construct are not quite the same thing.
> I understood the latter to be a general impression and took issue with
> that. The goal of civil society groups throughout WSIS was to integrate
> many different needs and interests of Internet users.

And I was offering a response, which I stand by. Civil society -- at
WSIS and here in ICANN -- is sufficiently far removed from the needs and
issues of the public to be generally irrelevant to its interests. I
would not limit origins to Europeans and academics (let's not forget
trade unions and religious groups, amongst others) though I understand
the sentiment behind the original comment.

The core point is this: if the needs of the public interest were being
met by civil society, NCUC would be addressing our issues and At-Large
would not need to exist. Unfortunately that is not the case, so here we
are. I would like to prevent ALAC evolving into a weak NCUC wannabe with
money subsidy in lieu of Board representation. Unfortunately it's
already pretty far down that path.

- Evan