[chapter-delegates] SAD NEWS AND Position of ISOC Nigerian Chapter on Veni Markovski's petition

[Vansnick Rudi]

On behalf of the ISOC Belgium board and members, we express our condolences to
Nwodo's family, friends and the ISOC Nigeria members. 

Best regards,

ISOC Belgium
Rudi Vansnick
Chair


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isoc Nigeria Secretary [mailto:secretary at isocnig.org.ng] 
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:50 PM
> To: 2005-petition-markovski at elists.isoc.org
> Cc: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] SAD NEWS AND Position of 
> ISOC Nigerian Chapter on Veni Markovski's petition
> 
> 
> On behalf of the  ISOC Nigerian chapter I am annuncing the 
> very sad news that our president and chapter founder Prof. 
> T.C. Nwodo has suddently passed away. The sad event happened  
> on 27 April 2005 at Rivers State University of science and 
> Technology Campus in Port Harcourt.
> 
> Thanks to his immense contribution and selfless work for  the 
> development and widspread of Internet in Nigeria and in 
> Africa at large he has actualize the Isoc mission that  " 
> Internet is for everyone"
> 
> More details on his contribution will follows.
> 
> At the same time Isoc Nigeria chapter like to support the 
> petition sent by Veni Markovski so that he can be allowed to 
> run as a  candidate in the upcoming election for the Chapter 
> member of the Board  of Trustees.  At the same time, we like 
> to remark that we are agreeing with the comment sent from the 
> Italian chapter saying that "the present discussions are 
> severely  damaging the public image and the internal cohesion 
> of ISOC" For that reason we are not contributing on the 
> discussion and we are thinking that other chapters have the 
> same opinion. It is our strong believe that actions are the 
> best way to encourage the Internet diffusion and democracy 
> than words. We noted that a lot of speeches are going on and 
> at the end not concrete solutions are drafted.
> 
> 
> 
> for Isoc Nigeria Chapter
> 
> Effiong Umoren
> General Secretary
>