<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear Ted, Victor and all,<br><br></div>The Cambodian Chapter raises very pertinent issues that should not be ignored. The risks and costs associated with running a chapter outweigh direct benefits to the executive officers or people mandated to run the chapters. This is the issue we need to address. Most chapters are run by passionate individuals who are mostly volunteers and unless we figure out a way of adequately motivating our champions, we might be headed for a difficult future. The stature and influence of ISOC has grown globally which calls for a paradigm shift in how ISOC treats its foot soldiers. I have never been able to reconcile how for instance a community grant can be given to people who are not actively engaged in Chapter activities in their countries<br>
</div>, this renders chapters utterly toothless in that regardless of whether people invest in a chapter, they still have similar priviledges to those who work hard to keep the Chapters going, indeed we need to have some tough conversation over this issue in light of ISOCs growing influence. On thursday, we had an East African Internet Governance Forum which is basically convened by ISOC Kenya, ISOC Uganda, ISOC, Burundi and ISOC Rwanda, that just shows the growing influence of the Internet Society in the region and i must add the challenges are very big yet at the end of the day its the ISOC brand that grows, let us not sweep this issue under the carpet.<br>
<br></div>Best Regards<br><br></div>Barrack Otieno<br><br></div><br><br></div>Kenya Chapter<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 7:06 PM, <a href="mailto:info@isoc.org.ec">info@isoc.org.ec</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@isoc.org.ec" target="_blank">info@isoc.org.ec</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">"FIFA, a consortium of<br>
independent organizations"<br>
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</div>Is not a good example to put the world football MAFIA here<br>
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Carlos Vera<br>
Internet Society Ecuador<br>
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> El 27/09/2013, a las 15:05, Grigori Saghyan <<a href="mailto:gregor@arminco.com">gregor@arminco.com</a>> escribió:<br>
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> FIFA, a consortium of<br>
> independent organizations.<br>
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