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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I'd support this idea - as
a beginning. <br>
ISOC should do this as a pilot program, and immediately implement
it. Give each chapter a chance to prove themselves, and those of
them, which are successful, should get more funds, and those who
are not, should get more support from ISODC and other chapters, to
be more successful next time.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/24/2013 18:51, Ted Mooney wrote:<br>
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<div>I just emerged from two days of meetings. I wanted to get
back to you just so you know that your suggestions aren't
falling into the ocean. Enhancing the chapter administrative
capabilities is a hot topic as you know and one on which we will
stay focused to resolution. I was on a call with our European
chapters on Monday in which we discussed this issue. You may
recall that Jordi Iparraguirre made a number of proposals how
we might address chapter administration and I voiced support for
the process he suggested. I and other staff would like to
participate in the Chapter Admin Support working group
proposed. I expect such a group will be composed primarily of
chapter members and will address how we can jointly resolve
chapter administration issues in both the short and long term.
Jordi has posted a spreadsheet in which he asked chapter
members to provide a list of administrative issues and potential
solutions. We would like to have the working group take that
spread sheet and see what concrete proposals can be made and
move forward. Your participation is welcome.</div>
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<div>You raised two other issues in you mail that merit a response
for clarity.</div>
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<div>1.The role of the economist has been vetted by minds more
savvy than mine on this issue and we are proceeding consistent
with our principles of neutrality and transparency. </div>
<div>2. The Internet Society is governed by the Board of Trustees
and managed by staff. It convenes multiple stakeholders on a
variety of issues of Internet technology and policy. It is not,
however, by charter or by action a bottom-up organization
itself. That said, we are committed to understanding, learning
from and incorporating input from out communities of support.</div>
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<div>With the Board's statement affirming the role and importance
of chapters, the Internet Society Staff has a renewed mandate
for assuring strong support for chapter work and organization
around the world. I look forward to the coming months in
particular as we make progress on all the issues of chapter
strength, vitality and collaboration.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>Ted<br>
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<div>On Apr 23, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Dave Burstein <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com">daveb@dslprime.com</a>>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Folks</div>
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Great to see the board wants stronger chapters</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"<span style="font-family:arial">Board re-affirmed that the
Internet Society is a mission-driven organization, and
addressed the strategic role of Chapters in the
achievement of the ISOC mission. As a follow-up to
this meeting, the Board agreed that Chapters are vital
to advancing the mission, principles, and values of
ISOC at the local and regional levels and they
contribute to ensuring the organization is globally
and locally engaged. The Board was sympathetic to
requests by Chapters for support in their essential
operations,"</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">Let's make this real by
shifting 2% of the budget ($500,000) to the chapters
immediately, enough to give each chapter that applies
$5-10,000 over the next 12 months. It won't transform
the chapters, but is enough for 20-40 hr/month admin
and/or several events with $1,000 budget and/or
economy travle for 1 or 2 members to a major meeting.
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> It's almost certainly a
more efficient use of funds than hiring expensive
people in DC or Geneva and flying them around the
world.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> This is a "just do it"
proposal to reinforce the bottom-up, multistakeholder
model in the Internet Society itself. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> We have professional
management that certainly can rearrange 2% of the
budget. There's an obvious source in not filling two
positions currently open on the website: one's for an
economist with strong experience in fundraising </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/senior-economist" style="font-family:arial">http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/senior-economist</a> <span style="font-family:arial"> and the second a newly
created position for a marketing communications
manager. </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/marketing-communications-manager" style="font-family:arial">http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/marketing-communications-manager</a> .
There's presumably ~$400-500K in the budget for those
postions and related expenses. There are several other
open positions with six figure salaries and expenses
where the money could be more effectively spent on local
programs. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> We all know
that most funds that can be raised in our field come
with serious strings attached; the last thing an ISOC
economist or any policy person should be doing is
begging interested parties for money. That job should
never have been created because of the obvious influence
on the policy proposed. ISOC is already fighting back
against claims we're unduly influenced by multinational
corporations and positions; tying policy so closely to
fundraising just provides ammunition to such attacks. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> And while it
might be valuable "<span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;line-height:17.912500381469727px">to
develop, manage, edit and review existing collateral
for marketing effectiveness and adherence to brand
guidelines" we already have some hard-working
professionals doing that.</span> The money would be
much better spent bythe chapters working directly in the
field, I believe.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> Going forward, </span><span style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">I'd bet shifting 10-20% of
the ISOC budget to local efforts will result in far
more impact than spending the money as we now do, but
that will take time to organize. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> I hope chapter leaders
will rise up with proposals how to make this happen
and that the center can see the wisdom of being a less
"top-down" group.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">Dave Burstein</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">We've got experienced senior
managers who</span></div>
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