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for getting the ball rolling on this one<br>
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Judith Hellerstein<br>
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On 4/25/13 3:06 PM, Veni Markovski wrote:<br>
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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
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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
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Folks</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> 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. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span
style="font-family:arial"><br>
</span></div>
<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>
</span></div>
<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>
</span></div>
<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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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
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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>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br>
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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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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>
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style="font-family:arial"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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style="font-family:arial">Dave Burstein</span></div>
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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've got experienced
senior managers who</span></div>
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