The Internet is a Force for Good, and it Runs on People
Meeting for the week of April 05, 2021 - April 11, 2021
This Meeting at a Glance:
Program: The Internet is a Force for Good, and it Runs on People
Speaker: Naela Sarras
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Welcome to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
Here’s a message from our Club President.
Welcome, everyone, to the Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley!
This month, we focus on Maternal and Child Health in the Rotary world. We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future. An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented.
Rotary provides education, immunizations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.
With the generous help of individuals like you, we can improve access to essential medical services for mothers and their children. Consider making a contribution to The Rotary Foundation’s Annual Fund so we can continue to make lives better in our communities and around the globe.
Yours in Rotary service,
Raquel D’Garay-Juncal
President, Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley
president@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Guests, we are happy to have you join us this week!
As we see it, our flexibility as an online, asynchronous club allows a special type of service to Rotarians around the world: we make it easier for anyone to strive for and maintain 100% attendance. That keeps you engaged with Rotary's events and ideas, and provides a moment of inspiration for devoting your creativity, talents, and resources to good causes.
You are certainly not required to pay anything in order to attend our meetings. However, if you would like to make a small contribution to our service efforts, you are welcome to do so in our secure Happy Dollars section down the page. This could be what you normally pay at your own club's meetings for lunch, for example. Any amount is welcome, but first and foremost, we're happy you've joined us, and hope you will share with others who we are and what we do to help inspire Service Above Self.
And don't forget to fill out our attendance form so you get an email you can pass on to your club's secretary!
The Four Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships.
Of the things we think, say or do
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Weekly Funny with Shags.
We believe laughter is an important part of life, and we should all make time to laugh a little. This segment of our meeting is meant to tickle you just enough. These funnies are curated by member Steven "Shags" Shagrin !
This One's On Me!!
A bald man got a great deal on a wig today - only $1! It was a small price toupee.
Weekly Inspiration
Every week we start our meetings with a short video highlighting innovation, inspiration, entrepreneurship, or social change.
The Future Crunch people shared the story of 11-year-old Anthony Mmesoma Madu, a Nigerian boy learning ballet at a free school. The person who started the Leap of Dance school, Daniel Owoseni Ajala, wanted students who can't afford traditional lessons to have the opportunity to learn to dance. After Daniel posted a video of Anthony dancing in the rain, it went viral, and now Anthony has a scholarship to the American Ballet Theatre school in New York.
World of Rotary
Every week we will focus on a particular story that tells of our organization and the work of Rotarians in the world.
Through a Rotarian's Lens
Sometimes a photo can capture an amazing moment. In this section Member Keith Marsh shares his incredible photography!
If you'd like to submit a photo for this section please contact Keith.
While in Cuba in 2016 for a Rotary International Service project, I spent some time in Havana photographing the various types of transporation. At night, I wanted to capture a sense of motion by blurring images of passing vehicles at slow shutter speeds. This photo was taken at 1/8 second as I panned along with the vehicle. The ISO (exposure) was set by the camera at 2800 in Auto ISO Mode.
Learn Something New
This section is curated by members Shags Shagrin and aims to teach our members and guests something new, fun, and useful! If you have any ideas on a fun trick or skill you'd like to share please contact Shags.
On This Day in History!!
I was searching for something to share based on the date, and I came across this bit of information: " 1987 - U.S.A. Fox Broadcasting 1987: Fox Broadcasting Co. made its prime-time TV debut with Its first prime time shows, starting on Sunday nights beginning April 5, 1987, A comedy about a dysfunctional family (Married... with Children - which aired for 11 seasons ) A variety series (The Tracey Ullman Show). Which spawned the longest-running sitcom and animated series in U.S. history: The Simpsons. The "Learn Something New" part is that the male lead in Married...With Children, and then later in another hit sit-com, Modern Family, is from my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio. I know Ed from his days at the Youngstown Playhouse and then from seeing him now and then along the path of his life's desire. His story is a great one! Read it here:
Service Report
Tell us about service you’ve done recently in your community.
Click here to fill out The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley Service Survey
Our Events & Projects
We hold our meetings online, but we do regular service projects and social events in the Silicon Valley! The section is updated every week with our upcoming events. We welcome guests to all of the events and service projects listed here.
Upcoming Events:
All times are Pacific Time! (San Francisco time)
District 5170 Events
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More events coming soon! All events are open to guests, unless otherwise mentioned. Feel free to join us! If you ever have questions, please email inquiries@siliconvalleyrotary.com
Happy Dollars: Do Good by Sharing Something Good
Each week we ask our members to share stories with the club and toss in a few dollars to support our efforts. The primary goal of this section is to provide a fun way of getting to know each fellow members and guests, while giving back to a good cause.
Happy dollars is an opportunity to share something positive that has happened in your life whether it is personal or business. Think of it as your opportunity to brag a little, but also put a little bit into a karma jar. The money donated through happy dollars is put to charitable use, and the message that you leave for happy dollars will be posted in our online meeting the following week for the entire week for folks to see! (Pending that it’s appropriate!)
Here are the happy dollars contributions from last week!
This section is usually updated in the early hours of Saturday, so contributions made over the weekend may not be listed here.
Rory Olsen made a $20 donation.
Sunny day. Please apply my gift to Polio Plus.
Program: The Internet is a Force for Good, and it Runs on People
Speaker: Naela Sarras
Every week we bring to you a new program on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education, and how those contribute to service to others.
The Rotary eClub of Silicon Valley seeks to explore perspectives on service from across the world. The views of the speakers in our programs are their own, and unless stated otherwise, are not necessarily reflective of the views of our eClub nor Rotary International.
If you have an idea for a cool speaker, please feel free to reach out to them directly or submit THIS FORM so our Program Committee can contact them!
We take the Internet for granted, we fire up our laptop or tablet, launch our browser, and poof, we're online! And though we refer to it as "the" Internet, it is really a network of thousands of independently owned and operated networks that voluntarily agree to connect. The practices and protocols for how they do so are established by an array of stakeholder-driven organizations – volunteers who are as passionate about bringing the next billion users online as they are about preserving their radically democratic culture.
Learn about how these communities help drive an Internet that helps improve everyone's lives, and how you can be involved in shaping the Internet's future. In this talk, you'll find out what happens behind the scenes to make the Internet truly function. Our speaker, Naela Sarras, is the Vice President of Stakeholder Engagement in North America.
In this role, she facilitates collaboration between stakeholders in the region, including ICANN-accredited registries and registrars, established civil society organizations, and members of the technical community who participate in Internet standards organizations and develop Internet policy. She works closely with other ICANN organization teams to build and diversify ICANN's multistakeholder base across North America. Previously, Naela was the Director of IANA Operations, overseeing many of the most important technical functions that ICANN facilitates. A highly respected member of ICANN’s technical community, Naela has been with ICANN since 2005 and involved in many of ICANN's technical milestones, such as the IANA Stewardship Transition.
She has been a key partner in the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) program, which is helping build a multilingual Internet for the next generation of Internet users across the globe. Fluent in English and Arabic, Naela has a degree in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration. She is based in Los Angeles. Members and guests, please welcome Naela Sarras!
Learn more:
- The home for all things related to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers https://www.icann.org
- All of ICANN's technical publications, papers on 5G, Encrypted DNS, and more. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/octo-publications-2019-05-24-en
- All of ICANN's Government Engagement Publications, issues covered include cybersecurity issues at the United Nations and European Union. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/government-engagement-publications-2020-03-02-en
Upcoming Program Recording Schedule
All of our guest speakers and programs are recorded live online over Zoom video conference. We welcome members and guests to join us in one of these upcoming recordings. Recordings are approximately 30 minutes long and are subject to change without notice.
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