To the Board of ICANN,I am the founder of Powered By Professionals which works
with several non profit organizations. One of which is A Little HOPE (www.alittlehope.org)
on which I serve as the Executive Director. The objective of the A Little HOPE
Organization is to provide HOPE and comfort to children who have experienced the
loss of a family member. I am writing in support of Register Organization, Inc.’s
(“RegisterOrg”) bid to operate the .org registry.
I understand that RegisterOrg
has committed to supporting the noncommercial Internet community through the creation
of $2.5 million fund that is designed to seed technology capacity building on an
international scale, global policy awareness, education and participation, and technology
innovation to benefit the .org user community. I further understand they are committed
to creating a .org Community Portal. The Community Portal will serve as a central
place where all users can engage in dialog about registry issues, find information
and links to web sites about global internet policy development and Internet governance,
and resources to help .org registrants build their web presence and better communicate
with their target audiences.
In working within the non profit sector, I
understand that a non-profit relies on the stability of the Internet and believe
that bringing users online through a proposal such as RegisterOrg’s will foster the
expansion of the Internet, and the .org community, through international collaboration
for technology innovation, and the deployment of new technologies. For these
reasons, we support the RegisterOrg bid to operate the .org registry.
Sincerely,
Kenneth J. Grosso
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