[Chapter-delegates] Day-to-day funding

[Grigori Saghyan]

Dear Veni, All,
For our Chapter I see following very important following points:

>allow it to organize tutorials, workshop, seminars to educate national
>parliaments, governments, etc. on Internet-related issues;

>provide the means for hiring good legal experts to help telecom
> ministry formulate proper policies in the field of ICT;

Today governments are  very   powerful participants in the
multistakeholder model.   And as all normal people,  governmental
officials  also do not want to have strong   limitations in the
Internet. But because it is very hard to understand Internet related
matters - strange, but it is reality - they need to be trained.
Grigori Saghyan
ISOC.AM


On 12.03.2013 0:44, Veni Markovski wrote:
> The best sustainable way would be for ISOC to go back to the origins of
> its bid for getting the .org domain.
> Back then the broad public was told that no money from .org would go to
> cover expenses of ISOC. Currently the situation is quite different.
> If there are 100 chapters, I would strongly argue that ISOC could
> allocate 20 % of its budget to fund them - through grants, projects, etc.
> No matter how we look at that - as investment, or as grant, or as
> sponsorship, it will have a tremendous impact on the Internet, and the
> way it is being developed around the globe.
> Just think for a moment what a chapter in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe,
> or Latin America can do with about $ 100,000 / year.
> It will:
> - empower its active membership;
> - allow it to organize tutorials, workshop, seminars to educate national
> parliaments, governments, etc. on Internet-related issues;
> - keep a whole office operational;
> - allow chapter to provide small travel and educational grants to active
> community/chapter members;
> - provide the means for hiring good legal experts to help telecom
> ministry formulate proper policies in the field of ICT;
> - organize local awards for web creativity;
> - support localization of Creative Commons licenses;
> - allow young engineers to go to IETF meetings;
> - ensure Internet connectivity for the chapter and its members;
> - etc., etc., etc....
> 
> 
> On 03/11/2013 16:35, Edwin A. Opare wrote:
>>
>> Elver,
>>
>> Well said.
>>
>> Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions on chapter sustainability
>> especially when membership dues are not coming through and a chapter
>> does not have any corporate members and their relating support on board?
>>
>> Edwin Opare
>>
>> Ghana Chapter
>>
>>
> 
> -- 
> 
> Best, 
> Veni Markovski
> http://www.veni.com
> https://www.facebook.com/venimarkovski
> https://twitter.com/veni
> 
> The opinions expressed above are those of the 
> author, not of any organizations, associated 
> with or related to him in any given way. 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically subscribed
> to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the Internet Society
> Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org
> 


-- 
Grigori Saghyan
PGP Key ID: 0x48E4D5DC

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 553 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/private/chapter-delegates/attachments/20130314/9097f1bd/attachment.asc>