[Chapter-delegates] Chaper Delegates - ISOC is funing IGF

[Desiree Miloshevic]

Veni and Carlos,

Just to set the record straight.

Veni was also one of the members of the ISOC funding projects committee, 
in the first phase, including other Trustees and the staff.

In the second phase, I remember that ISOC BG put forward few very good 
proposals. The committee decided to fund one of ISOC BG projects, which 
indeed, was not the IG one, but one that was multi-disciplinary one, 
helping local community in Bulgaria.

And yes, chapters could become very active in promoting the ( 75 
dollars) individual membership within ISOC.

This particular IGF funding in question here, was not part of the 
funding project committee work.

Hope this helps,

Desiree
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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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