<div dir="auto">You are right Arsene, npoc will have to mobilize it self quickly before is too late. They should be seen in a leading position on this issues, they are virtually quite.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 9:46 PM Arsène Tungali <<a href="mailto:arsenebaguma@gmail.com">arsenebaguma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">And that's where the. NPOC should step in and engage with non profits across the world, starting with engaging their members about this .org saga!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 3:50 PM Wisdom Donkor <<a href="mailto:wisdom.dk@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">wisdom.dk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Benjamin you ask a very important question, just take Africa alone and the number of NGO's that are registered with .org, most dont even know their rights neither to participate in IG debates. It is very sad that, the very people that should know better are taken taken advantage. I see this to be a calculated move, it didnt just start today.<div><br></div><div> <div><br></div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><div><div><b>WISDOM DONKOR</b><br></div><div><font size="1">President & CEO</font></div><div><font size="1">Africa Open Data and Internet Research Foundation</font></div><div><font size="1">P.O. 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<p class="MsoNormal">Benjamin,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You have raised an important point here, one that applies to
more than just the .org domain name holders, won’t go away, and requires
increased attention.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Every person, community, company, and government is now a resident
in the Internet ecosystem. Most have no idea of their rights and obligations as "citizens" in those digital spaces.
</p><p class="MsoNormal">In literal citizenship one’s rights and obligations evolve
out of appropriate legislation, and education around acceptable behavior. There
are starts around privacy rights, e.g. EU’s GPDR. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is also an issue in this .org transaction, with ICANN’s
attempts to give questionable powers to registries and registrars under the ill-named
banner of DNS Abuse. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Making .org domain name holders aware of their rights and
obligations, and engaging them in the policy and behavior dialogues, are important
parts of defining digital citizenship. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sam Lanfranco</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">---- Original Message ----<br><b>From</b>: Benjamin Akinmoyeje <<a href="mailto:benakin@GMAIL.COM" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">benakin@GMAIL.COM</a>><br><b>To</b>: <a href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU</a><br><b>Sent</b>: Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 8:59 AM<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: Milton's Dec 8th Draft & Commentary<br><br><div dir="ltr">I also align with this letter, however I just have some concern playing in my head.<div>How does this process get the representation of the about 10 million registrants of the .org TLD , knowing fully that many of them don't even participate in the IG processes? It is just a question in my head.</div><div><br></div><div>However this is a good approach compared to others.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Benjamin</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br></blockquote></font></div>
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