[Chapter-delegates] Recent Correspondence from the Cambodian Chapter

[Grigori Saghyan]

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On 29.09.2013 18:15, Veni Markovski wrote:
> See below.
> 
> On 09/29/13 10:05, Christian de Larrinaga wrote:
>> Veni
>> 
>> The point is that it is ISOC that gets the revenue flows, not
>> the chapters nor a body or foundation promoting local Internet
>> communities such as chapters. So a chapter only gets access to
>> the .org funds through ISOC. It may well be that ISOC may have
>> not been awarded .org franchise without the chapters but there
>> was no agreement with chapters on how any revenues would be
>> divided up.
> 
> Of course there wasn't, but there were statements that no .org
> money will go to cover the expenses of ISOC, but only for public
> policy projects. We supported ISOC HQ, because we believed in it -
> don't forget, that's a long time ago, and ISOC was at the edge of
> bankruptcy.
> 
>> 
>> There is a moral duty I think for ISOC to develop local Internet 
>> communities and the not for profit sector use of Internet and the
>> .org revenues are very much part of that opportunity. The
>> chapters who supported the .org bid for ISOC would seem a great
>> place to focus on to deliver that mission. ISOC Trustees have
>> emphasised the broad thrust of this intent but so far
>> implementation has not been strong.
> 
> Agree.
> 
>> Bearing that in mind I would expect rather more than 2-3% of
>> ISOC budget for chapter led activities. But I was not talking
>> about that content led mission. I was limiting my comments to
>> bootstrapping a shared secretariat resource that Chapters could
>> tap into so volunteers are supported.  I would be very
>> disappointed if chapter funding became dominated by "secretariat"
>> or "admin" issues. Ideally we need to try to keep overheads to a
>> very small level as proportion of overall spend. We should
>> certainly be aiming to be in the top 10% of NFP bodies in this
>> regards.
> 
> Well, 2-3 % would have been a good start - it's abot $ 1 million. 
> Someone else suggested it. I was suggesting actually much bigger
> change - $ 10 Million, distributed among 100 chapters.
> 
> v.
> 
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