[Chapter-delegates] Why nothing in Nicaragua?

[Adrián García]

The Costa Rican chapter is happy to welcome any Nicaraguans while they set
up their chapter formally. Actually we have a bunch of members from
neighboring countries.

http://www.isoc-cr.org/


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Sebastian Bellagamba
<bellagamba at isoc.org>wrote:

> Hi, Elver, all
>
> From the Latin America and Caribbean regional bureau we are in constant
> contact with the Nicaraguan Internet community. Indeed, there is a group of
> people that has been interested in forming a Chapter there, but so far they
> have not organized themselves enough to present an application yet.
> We will continue to support this effort, as Nicaragua is in a very dire
> situation with respect to Internet penetration: they are the less connected
> country in the continental Americas, just slightly better than Haiti in the
> Caribbean.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sebastian Bellagamba
> bellagamba at isoc.org
> -------------------------------
> Director - Oficina Regional para America Latina y el Caribe
> Regional Bureau Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
> ==================
> Internet Society
> www.isoc.org
>
>
>
>
> On 29 May, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Elver Loho <elver.loho at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > Since I accidentally became the Nicaraguan rain god on Twitter after a
> > bunch of people mixed up #elver and @elver (one is their hashtag for
> > "big rain" and the other is my twitter handle), I looked at the ISOC
> > chapter map and noticed that there is no chapter in Nicaragua.
> >
> > Has there ever been any interest there? Any plans? Anyone know anyone
> > down there planning to set one up? They seem like a cool bunch of
> > people, but even their president doesn't have a twitter account, so
> > the tech side could probably use some international ISOC support :)
> >
> > Best,
> > Elver
> >
> > elver.loho at gmail.com
> > +372 5661 6933
> > skype: elver.loho
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