[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-NY President Resigns

Keith Davidson keith at internetnz.net.nz
Thu Apr 7 13:54:53 PDT 2016


Hi all,

I agree with Carlos regarding the sustainability of ISOC chapters.

Currently the chapter "officers" spend inordinate amounts of time on 
doing meeting minutes, treasurers functions, looking after the website, 
convening meetings, maintaining members lists, and other routine 
administrivia. It would be of extreme benefit to the chapters if ISOC 
could provide administrative staff to undertake these functions. This 
would free up considerable time for the chapter "officers" to spend on 
strategic thinking and advancing the issues of real importance to their 
chapters.

Furthermore, ISOC would gain considerably overall by devolving its 
centralised authority, allowing more regional or local empowerment, to 
deal with the issues more critical within those communities. I feel the 
current centralised structure inhibits ISOC's ability to grow. I also 
sense from this thread there is a growing frustration with the current 
structure, and I remain hopeful that high level strategic changes are 
being considered by the board and senior staff.

Cheers

Keith

On 07-Apr-16 12:51 AM, Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G. wrote:
> Hi Vreni!
>
> I see it as a much broader question than just for 3 candidates to the
> Board. There are many different paths to make chapters sustainable,
> trough their leaders, their initiatives and else. Even by getting them
> on ISOCs or any other 5* payrolls.
>
> Cheers
>
> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
> +506 8837 7176
> Skype: carlos.raulg
> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
> On 6 Apr 2016, at 6:34, Veni Markovski wrote:
>
>> Hi, Carlos!
>>
>> Given the fact that right now is voting time, that sounds like a
>> question, aimed at the candidates to join the Board of Trustees.
>>
>> Hope that they will respond?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/05/16 23:58, info at isoc.org.ec wrote:
>>> With an every day growing staff, ISOC HQ should have a dedicated
>>> staff to chapters, with real chapter experience and also a dedicated
>>> program for make chapters sustainable and volunteers.
>>>
>>> Maybe it's a good time to ask for this as a real an serious
>>> compromise from the various candidates to the ISOC board in the next
>>> coming election
>>>
>>> Carlos Vera
>>> Internet Society Ecuador
>>> www.isoc.org.ec
>>> Síguenos @isocec
>>>
>>>> El 5 abr 2016, a las 11:51 a.m., Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez G.
>>>> <crg at isoc-cr.org> escribió:
>>>>
>>>> @Glenn +1
>>>>
>>>> After spending a long year trying to get our local chapter 100%
>>>> registered under a celar non-for profit structure in Costa Rica so
>>>> we can even have our own bank account, we found out the ISOC does
>>>> not even consider guaranteeing  the basic yearly support of US $
>>>> 2´000/year we assumed as the basic support to share one part time
>>>> person with one of our Board members………
>>>>
>>>> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
>>>> +506 8837 7176
>>>> Skype: carlos.raulg
>>>> Current UTC offset: -6.00 (Costa Rica)
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Best,
>> Veni Markovski
>> http://www.veni.com
>> https://www.facebook.com/venimarkovski
>> https://twitter.com/veni
>>
>> The opinions expressed above are those of the
>> author, not of any organizations, associated
>> with or related to him in any given way.
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