[chapter-delegates] How we can improve the chapter <-> BoT relations

[Veni Markovski]

Dear colleagues,

here's my proposal:

1. From now on, whenever there's a board decision or management decision, 
that includes some document (e.g. Strategic Plan, new membership model, 
etc.) that may be discussed, this should be published either to the full 
chapter-delegates list, or to a smaller one, where only interested parties 
should subscribe (I'd prefer the latter).

2. Give the chapters 1 week for discussion, after which all comments should 
be reviewed, taken into consideration. Should they not be used, ISOC staff 
must provide reason why.

3. After document is published, no further discussion should take place, 
unless there's a big error or mistake, which has been discovered after the 
one week period.

This may be not a good process, but at least gives some ideas of how a 
normal organization should be working.

I'd urge even more - to have such processes built for every act and action 
of ISOC.

Then the Board will be in far better position, as today many of the chapter 
delegates believe that if they tell a Board Trustee something, then it will 
be reviewed and accepted by the BoT as a decision. We need to have a 
process for such requests, too. While I don't have anything against to 
bring a message from chapters to the Board, if we want this message to make 
a difference, there should be a process for handling such messages.

I think another process that we may wish to develop is how to form working 
committees of chapter representatives (may be the delegates?), that will 
work on the three pillars. I am sure that many good ideas from countries 
worldwide could be used, esp. in the WSIS and the UN environment.

What do you think?


At 18:56 15-03-05  -0500, James M Galvin wrote:
>Thank you Mike, well said.
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>Jim
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>--On Monday, March 14, 2005 7:46 PM -0800 Mike Todd 
><miketodd at miketodd.com> wrote:
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>>James Galvin, David McAuley and other Chapter Delegates,
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>>What we have experienced on this list over the past couple of weeks is a
>>massive misunderstanding and/or lack of effective marketing and/or -
>>well, you fill in  the blanks, chances are we have hit that wall too.