I will gladly confirm my membership in the CFR, because it is no secret (although it is hardly one of my major activities). If it is not in my CV it should be...... (and I will add it forthwith). (PS - If I haven't publicly acknowledged it, how do you know?) Esther At 12:03 PM 05/08/99 -0400, Jay Fenello wrote: > > >In response to: > >>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5139/1.html >> >>Not only is Esther Dyson the Interim Chairman of ICANN, she is also >>currently the chairman of EDventure Holdings, a small but diversified >>company focused on emerging information technology worldwide. She is a >>member of the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption and >>sits on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Scala Business >>Solutions, Poland Online, Cygnus Solution, E-Pub Services, Trustworks >>(Amsterdam), IBS (Moscow), iCat, New World Publishing and the Global >>Business Network. She is on the advisory boards of Perot Systems and the >>Internet Capital Group, and a limited partner of the Mayfield Software Fund. >> >>Dyson is also on the boards and executive committees of the Santa Fe >>Institute and the Institute for East-West Studies, and on the board of the >>Eurasia Foundation. She is a founding member of the Russian Software Market >>Association and a member of the (US) Software Publishers Association. She >>serves on the advisory boards of The Software Entrepreneurs Forum (Silicon >>Valley), the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the Russian Internet >>Technology Center, and the Soros Medical Internet Project. >> >>Previously, she was a securities analyst (New Court Securities, 1977-80; >>Oppenheimer & Co., 1980-82), and a reporter for Forbes magazine (1974-77). >>Her academic credentials are a little more modest: she holds a Bachelor's >>degree in economics from Harvard University (1972). > > >Esther Dyson writes: > >>http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5149/1.html >> >>Some of this is a little old and out of date, but it is substantially >>correct. More worth noting is that I am an investor in a score of >>start-ups, many of them based in Central and Eastern Europe. I am a >>capitalist and proud of it, but I am hardly a supporter of the establishment. > > >Considering the many, many organizations that Esther >admits to belong to, isn't it curious that she fails >to mention the "Council on Foreign Relations". > >If ever there was an "establishment" organization, >the Council is certainly it: > http://www.foreignrelations.org/public/ > >Esther joined the Council in 1997, just before she >became interested in the DNS debate. FWIW, it is an >affiliation that she has never publicly acknowledged! > > >Respectfully, > >Jay Fenello >President, Iperdome, Inc.� 404-943-0524 >----------------------------------------------- >What's your .per(sm)? http://www.iperdome.com > Esther Dyson Always make new mistakes! chairman, EDventure Holdings interim chairman, Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 (212) 924-8800 1 (212) 924-0240 fax 104 Fifth Avenue (between 15th and 16th Streets; 20th floor) New York, NY 10011 USA http://www.edventure.com http://www.icann.org High-Tech Forum in Europe: 24 to 26 October 1999, Budapest PC Forum: March 12 to 15, 2000, Scottsdale (Phoenix), Arizona Book: "Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age"
