Re: [atlarge-discuss] Our Growing Membership

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

Good morning, Richard:

    Please make that 74 countries by adding the U.S. Virgin Islands to your
list.  We are a US Territory, but with our own constitution (The Organic
Act) and our own ccTLD, dotVI.

Regards, Ron Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>
To: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:49 AM
Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Our Growing Membership


Help

I feel really encouraged that we now have members in 73 different countries
(see below).

I'm hoping to post a separate page for the members of each country later
today or tomorrow at The Internet Challenge, as we gear up to recruit
100,000 members by the next election.

Numbers are not everything, of course : what counts is participation and
involvement.

My hope is that representatives in each country will now develop plans and
strategies for increasing membership wherever they are.

In addition, recruitment can also take place around issues, and this will be
a further focus in due course.

The Internet Challenge is a website demanding democratic representation for
ordinary users on the Board of ICANN. I'm using it in the coming months to
provide a monitoring site and an additional resource for Icannatlarge.com in
its period of growth. I will continue to record ICANN's crass lack of
accountability and the New TLDs fiasco in a separate section on the site.
But the main focus now is on the solution, which centres on recruitment and
the creation of a movement.

73 countries is a wonderful start in these opening months of our independent
At Large organisation of Internet Users. But it is only the beginning.

This movement is going to grow and grow. I am hoping to provide a
multi-lingual interface on my own website, and template e-mails for
recruitment, but most important of all will be all the ideas and initiatives
we can all contribute, and the initiatives of local people at local level.

We are developing a process of verifiable internet user elections as an
example to others; and what we prove within our own organisation will in
turn be implemented inside ICANN in due course : that is our determination.

Our organisation is serious about its demands for elected user
representation at the heart of Internet administration. Its "proof of
concept" democratic model must be rigorously developed and verification
processes are one of our priorities; but we are also going to achieve real
numerical significance, to add weight to our case, and real authority.

To the people of the world, I say : Let's get together!
It's YOUR internet

It belongs to hundreds of millions of people

all over the world

who use it, develop it, share on it,

trade, communicate, help, educate

It's YOUR internet

the global community of internet users

has the right to be democratically represented

in its administration and future

Best wishes

Richard Henderson

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List of 73 countries where our members live:

Andorra Angola Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Benin Brazil
Bulgaria BurkinaFaso Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chile China/HongKong Comoros
CostaRica Cyprus Denmark Ecuador Egypt France Germany Ghana Greece India
Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Kenya Kuwait Luxembourg
Madagascar Malaysia Mali Mauritius Mauritania Mexico Moldova Monaco Morocco
Netherlands NewZealand Niger Nigeria Norway Peru Philippines Rwanda Senegal
Singapore SouthAfrica SouthKorea Spain Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Togo
Tunisia Turkey UAE UK Uganda Ukraine Uruguay USA Vietnam

There are still more countries we also need to reach into, but our
recruitment program is only beginning in earnest now and already the breadth
of membership is really encouraging







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