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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear All who reacted or responded to
the mail by our Secretary.<br>
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while we are still awaiting responses from several persons to whom
his "Serious considerations..." have been addressed ("We are
looking forward to responses from all concerned recipients of this
mail."), I would like to thank all who expressed their concern and
good-will. Our Secretary will, of course, respond to all after
having received some of the responses for which we still wait.<br>
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When I write now also, it is only to clarify some elements where
there seem some misunderstandings or some short-interpretations
which do not take in what was in the original letter. Let me take
an example (from the Chapter-delegates list - I do not repeat the
name/address of the sender, because it is not about some personal
relations or clarifications, but about the substance in the mail
from our Secretary; also a few of the other reactions expressed a
similar opinion).<br>
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It was said:<br>
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only real grouse is on funding.</b></div>
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While it is true that the necessity to initially fund and operate a
Chapter office according to the detailed regulations of the
Cambodian government (<strong>The Bylaws: The Chapter shall be
established as a non-profit organization under the laws of
Cambodia</strong>) was at the beginning of our facing problems,
the letter from our Secretary contained also the following section:<br>
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<p> When, in August 2012, Ms. Duangthip
Chomprang, the ISOC Manager for Regional
Affairs (Asia) from the Asia Pacific
Regional Office, announced to visit
Cambodia, we welcomed this as an
opportunity to discuss our situation with
her. Unfortunately, she refused to have a
meeting with our chapter to discuss our
problems. In response the following mail
was sent to her and to the other ISOC
regional staff in Singapore, after due
deliberations with our Advisory Board and
Executive Committee:<br>
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-------- Original Message --------<br>
Subject Message from our Advisory
Board and the Executive Committee<br>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:40:15 +0700<br>
From: President of ISOC Cambodia <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:president@isoc-kh.org"
target="_blank">president@isoc-kh.org</a>><br>
To: Duangthip Chomprang <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:chomprang@isoc.org"
target="_blank">chomprang@isoc.org</a>>,
Rajnesh Singh <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:singh@isoc.org"
target="_blank">singh@isoc.org</a>><br>
CC: Ong Pisey <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:treasurer@isoc-kh.org"
target="_blank">treasurer@isoc-kh.org</a>><br>
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<strong> Dear Thip,<br>
<br>
After having received your mail,
rejecting our request to serious discuss
the crisis for our Chapter, created as a
result of the general situation and
legal requirements in Cambodia in the
meeting, and the refusal to ISOC staff
to positively pay attention to our
situation, we do not think it would be
appropriate to cooperate, as a Chapter,
with organizing a meeting for your 1 -
2.5 hours event, for which you would
like to invite the Members of the
Cambodia Chapter and other non-Chapter
members. To discuss fundamental problems
within ISOC, affecting the whole
membership, only among officers, as you
suggest (which has been tried in vain by
email so far) would not be in line with
our history to promote and practice open
communication – high values regularly
lifted up among the goals of the
Internet Society world wide and in its
slogan: the Internet is for everyone.<br>
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The situation and this response has
been shared and discussed with the
Members of the Advisory Board of our
Chapter and is unanimously supported.<br>
<br>
Norbert Klein<br>
President, ISOC-KH</strong><br>
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The five members of our Advisory Board
at that time were (reflecting the
stipulation of our Bylaws “The Advisory
Board of five members, from important
sections of the ISOC Cambodia Chapter
membership”):<br>
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the Head of the IT in Education
Section in the Ministry of Education<br>
the Editor in Chief of a leading
Cambodian daily newspaper, who is at the
same time President of the Club of
Cambodian Journalists<br>
the President and CEO of a major
broadband providing ISP<br>
a senior staff member in the
office of the Council of Ministers of the
Government of Cambodia, and<br>
one student.<br>
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Subsequently, mail to the ISOC Manager
for Regional Affairs (Asia) did not
receive any response.<br>
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At that time, prior to our 2012 Annual General Meeting, several
persons who might have been standing as candidates for President of
our Chapter, were not interested any longer to serve a Chapter of
ISOC, where it is not clear that the above attitude towards our
Chapter and it's Advisory Board of distinguished members of
Cambodian society is not rectified, neither at the regional level,
nor at a higher "global" or "central" or "ISOC HQ" level,
monitoring such regional staff actions.<br>
<br>
Norbert Klein<br>
Member of the Executive Committee<br>
ISOC Cambodia Chapter <br>
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(I do not copy this to the other members of our Executive Committee,
who are receiving this mail anyway, reading the Chapter-delegates
list)<br>
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