<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Well said, Veni...+1</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards from Puerto Rico,<br><br><div>Ernesto</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div><div><br>On Mar 11, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Veni Markovski <<a href="mailto:veni@veni.com">veni@veni.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The best sustainable way
would be for ISOC to go back to the origins of its bid for getting
the .org domain. <br>
Back then the broad public was told that no money from .org would
go to cover expenses of ISOC. Currently the situation is quite
different. <br>
If there are 100 chapters, I would strongly argue that ISOC could
allocate 20 % of its budget to fund them - through grants,
projects, etc. <br>
No matter how we look at that - as investment, or as grant, or as
sponsorship, it will have a tremendous impact on the Internet, and
the way it is being developed around the globe. <br>
Just think for a moment what a chapter in Africa, Asia, Eastern
Europe, or Latin America can do with about $ 100,000 / year. <br>
It will:<br>
- empower its active membership;<br>
- allow it to organize tutorials, workshop, seminars to educate
national parliaments, governments, etc. on Internet-related
issues;<br>
- keep a whole office operational;<br>
- allow chapter to provide small travel and educational grants to
active community/chapter members;<br>
- provide the means for hiring good legal experts to help telecom
ministry formulate proper policies in the field of ICT;<br>
- organize local awards for web creativity;<br>
- support localization of Creative Commons licenses;<br>
- allow young engineers to go to IETF meetings;<br>
- ensure Internet connectivity for the chapter and its members;<br>
- etc., etc., etc....<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/11/2013 16:35, Edwin A. Opare
wrote:<br>
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<p>Elver,</p>
<p>Well said.</p>
<p>Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions on chapter sustainability
especially when membership dues are not coming through and a
chapter does not have any corporate members and their relating
support on board?</p>
<p>Edwin Opare</p>
<p>Ghana Chapter</p>
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