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

[William F. Slater, III]

Bowa-nee Effiong:

The members of ISOC-Chicago express our heart-felt condolences to Professor
Nwodo's family and friends, and the members of your Nigerian ISOC Chapter.
You can take solace in that fact that while his untimely passing is a real
tragedy, the legacy that Professor Nwodo leaves behind, helping bring the
Internet to the people of Nigeria, is one that will be remembered for
generations to come.  Indeed, he will be like a modern day Prometheus in
your country.

Finally, in a spirit of tribute to Professor Nwodo, and of ISOC fellowship,
I visited your ISOC Nigeria website located at http://isocnig.org.ng. I was
very impressed the website's organization, content, history, and
accomplishments listed there. ISOC-Chicago has relationships with other
chapters in other countries. If you want to add us to your list of ISOC
chapters that have reached out to extend an offer of ISOC fellowship during
these tough times, and in the future, please feel free to do so, Effiong.

Sincerely,


William F. Slater, III
President, ISOC-Chicago

-----Original Message-----
From: Isoc Nigeria Secretary [mailto:secretary at isocnig.org.ng]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:50 AM
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