[Chapter-delegates] ISOC is funding the Internet Governance Forum

[Veni Markovski]

Dear Carlos,
the work of the IGF is important, and ISOC - in 
my opinion - has properly contributed to the 
Trust Fund. ISOC-Bulgaria is also participating 
there - see www.isoc.bg/ig and we have managed to 
do some fundraising, although ISOC decided not to 
support our project in the 2005 round of funding projects.

Chapters have a program, under which they can 
apply for funding from ISOC. Again, it's my 
understanding that they should be getting more 
funding for projects. Still, in 2005 there was $ 
150,000 for projects, and in 2006 the budget says 
there may be $ 50,000 more, e.g. see page 33 of 
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/SOP-Part2.pdf
I think chapters and individual members could get 
not a straight amount, but a percentage of the 
PIR contribution to ISOC budget - the same way 
IETF gets funding from some of the org members.

However, if you want the chapters to contribute 
more, they can do that in several different ways: 
for exmaple some of them may decide to promote 
the paid membership to ISOC ($ 75 / year), and 
put together the missing 500 such members, who 
will then be allowed to elect Board Trustees. As 
you can understand, simple math shows that today 
the Board's majority is elected by org members 
and the IETF, and individual users / chapters 
have only 3 Trustees. If you want to change the 
Board policy, that's one of the legitimate ways.

I hope you don't have doubts that we're trying 
hard to change the policy with all we can, but 
it's not that eays - trust me on that.

Best,
Veni

At 07:46 AM 14.2.2006 '?.'ЪЪ┬Ж  -0500, Carlos Vera Q wrote:
>It would be great to know who will benefit from this funding!! Not the
>Isoc Chapters it seems
>
>Carlos Vera Quintana
>ISOC Ecuador
>
>Franck Martin escribiС:
> >       http://www.intgovforum.org/funding.htm
> >
> >
> >       Funding
> >
> > The following donors have made pledges or contributed to the Trust Fund :
> >
> > - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC
> > <http://www.sdc.admin.ch/>)
> >
> > - Ministry of Economic Affairs of The Netherlands
> > <http://www.minez.nl/content.jsp?objectid=21438>
> >
> > - Nominet UK <http://www.nominet.org.uk/>
> >
> > - The Swiss Education and Research Network (SWITCH <http://www.switch.ch/>)
> >
> > - The Internet Society (ISOC <http://www.isoc.org>)
> >
> >
> > In-kind contributions were received by:
> >
> > - The United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG <http://www.unog.ch/>
> >
> >
>
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