[Chapter-delegates] Recent Correspondence from the Cambodian Chapter

[Barrack Otieno]

Just to clarify, i did not mean compensate the officers but back them up
strongly, also the East African Chapters had a planning meeting for next
years Internet Governance Forum on the sidelines of the Africa Internet
Governance Forum.


On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Ted, Victor and all,
>
> The Cambodian Chapter raises very pertinent issues that should not be
> ignored. The risks and costs associated with running a chapter outweigh
> direct benefits to the executive officers or people mandated to run the
> chapters. This is the issue we need to address. Most chapters are run by
> passionate individuals who are mostly volunteers and unless we figure out a
> way of adequately motivating our champions, we might be headed for a
> difficult future. The stature and influence of ISOC has grown globally
> which calls for a paradigm shift in how ISOC treats its foot soldiers. I
> have never been able to reconcile how for instance a community grant can be
> given to people who are not actively engaged in Chapter activities in their
> countries
> , this renders chapters utterly toothless in that regardless of whether
> people invest in a chapter, they still have similar priviledges to those
> who work hard to keep the Chapters going, indeed we need to  have some
> tough conversation over this issue in light of ISOCs growing influence. On
> thursday, we had an East African Internet Governance Forum which is
> basically convened by ISOC Kenya, ISOC Uganda, ISOC, Burundi and ISOC
> Rwanda, that just shows the growing influence of the Internet Society in
> the region and i must add the challenges are very big yet at the end of the
> day its the ISOC brand that grows, let us not sweep this issue under the
> carpet.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Barrack Otieno
>
>
>
> Kenya Chapter
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 7:06 PM, info at isoc.org.ec <info at isoc.org.ec>wrote:
>
>> "FIFA, a consortium of
>> independent organizations"
>>
>> Is not a good example to put the world football MAFIA here
>>
>> Carlos Vera
>> Internet Society Ecuador
>> www.isoc.org.ec
>> Síguenos @isocec
>>
>> > El 27/09/2013, a las 15:05, Grigori Saghyan <gregor at arminco.com>
>> escribió:
>> >
>> > FIFA, a consortium of
>> > independent organizations.
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