[Chapter-delegates] Issues facing Chapters

Wed May 21 13:21:13 PDT 2014

Chris,

no contest to your proposal of moving engineers around. In ISOC's early
ages one of its key activities was the NTW, Network Training Workshops.
Their time may be past but some things can still be arranged - and are, by
fellowhsips, the online course, etc.

We do need to be aware that ISOC does not "have" that reservoir - if you
mean members, who ever "has" them is their employers.

To your point about appearing in the press: it is indeed serious when the
press works that way. We in the chapters and ISOC HQ must do a workaround:
appearing in the international press till you get noticed by the local
press. And again as in my previous email: yes, it's nice to have our faces
and words in print, but the important thing, the mission, is to improve
life, access to the Internet, its governance, etc. Silent work sometimes
gets you that influence better, and at manageable risk levels.

For trainings like the ones you are proposing ISOC's tool till now has been
events and community grants. We need to get a better concept and see if we
can gain support for it.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Chris Mulola <chris.mulola at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Gihan, Alexandro, Charles and all,
>
> Africa is totally particular in its ways, here in Rwanda for a newspaper
> to write about an event you have organized, you have to call the owner, pay
> him and he will write about you.
>
> For RwIGF, which is our national IGF, we have no funding issues as the
> government promotes the event, the only issue is that it lacks activities,
> it is only active before the East  African one. In KENYA, people like Alice
> Munyua will always get you funds for your local IGF. And for the EAIGF,
> ISOC African Bureau always takes care of that, they pay  mostly for 2
> candidates from each eastafrican country to participate.
>
> THE ONLY MISTAKE that we have always been FIGHTING is ISOC giving those
> funds to local governments instead of channeling that aid through local
> chapters. Now this is  the time for Tanzania and Tanzania does not even
> have a chapter, i guess eaigf aid should go through a chapter in a
> neighboring country to arrange for people to participate in EAigf  in Dar
> Es Salam. This will demonstrate  again how ISOC  global values its chapter
> and push Tanzania into also starting a chapter, we should be always
> diplomatic. Last time, support  went through ISOC Burundi - the last eaigf
> had been announced  to take place in Burundi - and it was great.
>
> Now we do  not even know whether eaigf2014 will take place or not,
> Tanzanian Team has been silent ts been 2 months now, but thats another
> issue.
>
> Regarding the $2000 in developing countries, that amount is too little, in
> Rwanda that would be 3 months salary  for an average worker. African
> chapters should be given more, like we do not have the same advantages as
> in richer countries.
>
> As for Burkina Faso and it is great to have membership fees, but for us we
> decided not to have that as the members will always ask for something in
> return that we are not in a position to offer. I once proposed a solution
> to ISOC global but it has  been neglected up to now - maybe it does not
> make sense.
>
> My proposition was:
> ISOC GLOBAL  has a huge reservoir of IT engineers, it should identify like
> 3 members from every chapter in a developing  country, take these members,
> offer them trainings and send them back to their respective countries. Once
> back, they need to start the same trainings  at cheaper costs and the money
> gained will be used for chapter administration and visibility. Governments
> will be happy and they will value much local chapters like nobody dislikes
> a provider. This will prompt chapters into having more say on the ICT
> economy and policies for which they will be much regarded as major
> contributors.
> (Give me  a fish and i will eat for a day but teach me how to fish i will
> eat for a lifetime) This is much like give me $2000, and i will ask for
> more but give me something to provide to the government and local ICT
> hungry population for a win-win and i will not ask for your support anymore.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Chris Mulola
> President, ISOC Rwanda
> On May 21, 2014 3:40 PM, "Gihan Dias" <gihan at uom.lk> wrote:
>
>>  On 2014/05/21 ප.ව. 4:41, Charles Oloo wrote:
>>
>> Gihan, That is a brief of our current situation.
>>
>> Charles,
>>
>> Thanks. It is very instructive.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gihan
>>
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