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I'm a board member in New York and respect your decision but urge you to keep working to resolve this. The board of ISOC is strongly committed to working with chapters and directed staff to improve things. If that's broken down here, as it seems, several board members are surely willing to help. They are dedicated, committed people who make a point fo responding to ISOC chapter members. I or a dozen others on this list can connect you if that makes things easier. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> They are all strong and independent thinkers, most with a no b______ attitude.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ted</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> Thanks for addressing this; leaving it without response would have been painful. This is a crisis for the goverance model of ISOC that needs to be resolved at the highest level. As you saw from this list, a dozen other chapters think this crucial to solve.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> But "<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px">The issue of the lack of direct financial transfers is currently not among the solutions the Internet Society can offer" doesn't seem to the point. Is there anything in the ISOC charter that makes this impossible? If so, please point to it and people can bring it to the board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"> "Can" is the word you used. I'm guessing this actually is an administrative decision made by the senior staff, who can, if they choose, simply reverse the decision. Staff are constantly making financial decisions an order of magnitude greater. If staff feel they can't do this without board approval, that's easy to obtain if it's important to ISOC. As many of us know, most of the board members are very accessible and dedicated to solving ISOC problems if necessary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"> "Should" ISOC provide the seed funding here, necessary to get the chapter started on the path to independence is the real question. I'm sure there's a lot more here than the presumably modest sum to share some office space. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"> Likely, a shared or cheap office space that fits the legal requirements can be obtained for less than the cost of sending one more talking head to IGF Bali. Nothing wrong with IGF, but a slightly smaller ISOC delegation isn't a fatal wound. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"> <i>I don't know enough to decide whether ISOC <u>should</u> do more here</i> and I'm sure there are major issues that haven't been discussed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px"> So let's draw in Lynn, Walda or whomever else actually has the power to make things happen and prevent a deep organizational problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.399999618530273px">db</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Ted Mooney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mooney@isoc.org" target="_blank">mooney@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>ISOC Staff and, in particular, Membership and Services, are saddened by the recent decision and communication from the Cambodian Chapter regarding their desire to dissociate from the Internet Society for administrative and other support concerns. I believe,
however, there has been an unfortunate miscommunication. The Chapter Development and APAC staff have reached out to the Cambodian Chapter on numerous occasions. As many of you know, our Chapter Development team has worked with other chapters to help address
issues nearly identical to what the Cambodian Chapter is experiencing. Our offer of collaboration remains. </div>
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<div>The issue of the lack of direct financial transfers is currently not among the solutions the Internet Society can offer. There are, nevertheless many other avenues to address the administrative support of the Chapter, which are both local and long term.
Indeed Staff are working with Chapter volunteers and have convened a new Chapter Administrative Support Working Group to address this issue broadly. We hope the Cambodian Chapter will reassess their position and re-engage with ISOC staff as soon as possible.
Our Chapter Development staff will reach out once again to the Cambodian Chapter officers.</div>
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