[Chapter-delegates] Trustees! not staff! Re: Announcement about the dissolution of ISOC-KH

[CW Mail]

Dear Alan and colleagues:

I hesitate to intervene in this discussion because had my recommendations of three years ago been promptly implemented, we would not be having this critical discussion today.

To be clear, I do not support the dissolution of the Regional Bureaus. My position is that the staff should be decentralised to the Regional Bureaus and that the Regional Bureaus must be politically accountable to the Chapters in their Region. 

The second point is of course a pre-condition for the first. 

Having been neither a Trustee nor a senior staff member, I abstain from that argument as well. 
Clearly the Chapters have been under-represented in the Board of Trustees for a considerable period of time, and that might have contributed to a certain lack of understanding, if not sensitivity, to Chapter issues.

Regards to you all

Christopher Wilkinson.




On 06 Nov 2013, at 12:37, Alan Levin <alan at isoc.org.za> wrote:

> Dear Veni,
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> On 05 Nov 2013, at 8:49 PM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>> You are right. The staffers are good people. I'd say - amazingly good people. 
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> I am so sorry as in the past I would always have agreed with this comment. Sadly, after spending more than a calendar day in various discussions with Ted Mooney in Durban a few months ago, I found him to have been dishonest with me. I would not state this in such a public forum unless I was entirely convinced on three bases, 1. regarding ISOC Gauteng, 2. regarding a visit to ISOC projects in Gauteng that I sent him to, and 3. regarding a commitment to observing netiquette.
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> I have told Ted that cannot trust him and that I believe he is waging a war against ISOC-ZA yet he persists. Sadly he is in charge of ISOCs position on all of us :(
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> On the other hand I've had a few discussion with the Trustees and I believe that they are fully aware of the issues and are fully supportive of the Chapters needs. I expect that with the new CEO we will see dissolution of the 'bureaus' and additional global policy analysts that will be available to assist us with policy issues at national or regional levels. 
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> Sincerely
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> Alan
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