<div dir="ltr">Dear Veni,<div><br></div><div>ISOC Pakistan Islamabad Chapter supports your stance and reiterates that many of the chapters (including ours) are not legally registered because of several reasons such as country laws, legal opinions, internal consensus, sluggish Government processes especially after COVID-19 lockdowns. If our chapter does manage to open a bank account till 30 June despite all efforts, we will still not be able to get funds until next year. That's bad for motivation.</div><div><br></div><div>In my opinion, ISOC can handle this matter in one of the following ways:</div><div><br></div><div>A. Receive funding requests throughout the year and disburse funds accordingly.</div><div>B. Open multiple rounds of funding, if there is a constraint to close budget by mid-year.</div><div>C. Remove the deadline for chapters who are in the process of legal registration in their respective countries/areas. </div><div>D. Receive request for admin funding from all chapters for next year, but do not disburse funds until bank account is open in the name of the chapter. </div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Waqas Hassan</div><div>President,</div><div>ISOC Pakistan Islamabad Chapter.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:44 AM Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div lang="x-unicode"> <font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">Hi, everyone.<br>
Perhaps some of you (all of you?) have received a reminder that
today is the deadline for applying for chapter admin funding. If
you haven't, now you have :) <br>
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But, on a more serious note, have you wondered why there's a
deadline for applying for admin funding, and it's end of June?
Perhaps ISOC could reconsider this, and lift the deadline for
admin funding, so that chapters can apply throughout the whole
year? <br>
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Veni
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