Comment by Mary-Anne Hartley

Because, you know, those things are, those things, people want those things. People want compute. They want data. And humans are humans and we do compete. And it’s important to convene people so that we dilute that ability of competition, because this actually can be quite destructive sometimes, and to go beyond our individual egos and to really come together to make something bigger. CERN was just so impactful with that. And so to convene people around these goals of climate and agriculture, for example, huge projects on weather with the data sets that we have here, to convene us around health and humanitarian action. Those are some models that I can speak about. That’s my kind of focus. I’m working on these projects over here for large language models for medicine and humanitarian action. And here, Amanda can speak more about later, maybe about the education poll. And these are high impact areas. Convening people, you often call it a tinder for impact, right? And if only there were more of those. So it’s about making sure that people who know where the impact is supposed to go are convened with the resources that they need. Now, I did use the word donate earlier, right? They donated their resources, donated this, but it’s not just donations. It obviously costs money to run and to employ people, and a lot of people are doing this out of good will. But if we really want this to be impactful, it’s important that we also convene around common funding on impact-based outcomes, and that we can show that impact is worth investing in, and measure it so that we can actually have a return. And I think those are the real values of ICANN, and I really thank the vision that was in Switzerland for convening and hosting this. But again, it’s decentralized, and that relinquishment of power to make sure that you have access is actually very extraordinary. So yeah, thank you. AI Verified source (2025)