[Chapter-delegates] An invitation to the Webinar re. LoA/Dashboard and New Tools available

[Christopher Wilkinson]

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CW


On 03 Mar 2012, at 13:34, President ISOC-KH wrote:

> Hi Jacek,
>
> I have now signed in to be available at one of the two Doodle time  
> slots – but I did so with some reluctance.
>
> According to my mailbox of outgoing mail, I had responded on  
> Wednesday, 29 February 2012, quite in detail – and some of my  
> concerns were similar to what some others on our Chapter List  
> expressed. I do not want to repeat most of what I already wrote –  
> except the point that I find it difficult to respond under time  
> pressure with the brief time line offered, and I do not see why we  
> should engage in such an important issue suddenly. You say: “The LoA  
> has been in development since 2010 and many individuals in the  
> Chapters have participated in its evolution.” I am sorry that I  
> obviously missed it when this was discussed on our common platform,  
> the Chapter-Delegates list.
>
> You also requested: “LoA (see attachment) note that at this stage we  
> share it only with you, so you are kindly requested not to forward  
> it further until we have heard and incorporated your feedback.” We  
> live and work in a fairly top-down traditionally autocratic  
> environment – but in our ISOC chapter we try very consciously to  
> practice a different style of communication and cooperation. For me  
> not to share a draft on fundamental questions is contrary to what we  
> stand for.
>
> You say also:
>
> “Your feedback is especially important prior to translation,  
> Specifically we would like to know if the content make sense to you,  
> if anything is missing and if the language is easy to understand...”
>
> This wording does not seem to reflect at all some of the basic  
> questions which had been raised: What is this whole exercise about –  
> especially in view of the surprising wording about the relationship  
> between “ISOC Global” (what is it?) that is entering into contracts  
> with the chapters. Before dealing with the wording for translations,  
> this basic question needs to be clarified. Did we already agree – or  
> even discuss – that there will be “a more public launch”? Your  
> moving up the timing from 12 and 16 March now to 6 and 8 March shows  
> a haste which I do not understand – as others also had proposed to  
> have an online chat maybe much later, only after having had enough  
> time to discuss the issues involved on the Chapters-Delegates list.
>
> During the recent communications on this list, you mentioned also  
> something about a change of the Bylaws. The draft Letter of  
> Affiliation touches on a number of issues regulated in the Bylaws,  
> and where a chapter is a legal entity in the countries where they  
> are established under the law of the country (that is what the ISOC  
> Bylaws daft had suggested, which is the basis on which we started to  
> operate), any changes proposed may require quite complicated legal  
> re-arrangements locally. I am surprised that the issue of Bylaw  
> changes was mentioned only casually.
>
> Finally, I would like to remind us all of the mail from Christopher  
> Wilkinson which he wrote as Chair of the European Chapters  
> Coordinating Council, date stamped in my inbox on 29 February 2012.  
> I kindly request that the serious items listed up there should be re- 
> read, as they need to get a clarifying response before a webinar, as  
> planned – again upsetting many schedules - at extremely short notice  
> - is actually held.
>
> With my best greetings,
>
> Norbert Klein, President, ISOC Cambodia Chapter
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