[Chapter-delegates] BoT Elections : Mohamed El Bashir - Questions & Anwsers

[Olga Cavalli]

Dear all,

this is an interesting discussion, these are some comments and ideas I want
to share with you:

- The Chapters Advisor Committee is now organized and will help the
chapters to address concerns to the ISOC Board. In the CAC there are also
regional representatives that will help mobilizing activities and capturing
concerns at the regional level.

- The ISOC regional officies are doing very well, our experience in Latin
America and the Caribbean is very good, so this fact should leverage
participation and involvement at the regional level of all the chapters.

- Language is a barrier. Using English as a common language is fine but
this means a limitation to many.

- Use of email lists: for more than a decade I have been participating in
working groups, councils, etc, that use as a major communication tool email
lists and my experience is that in terms of active participants a low
percentage are the active ones, a larger percentage are in listen mode and
there are others that simply do not participate at all.  In some academic
projects I also use wikis, that serve as a repository of the comments,
shared files and other information. Reactions to wikis are also diverse, as
some find it ok and others do not.

Best regards to all

Olga

2016-04-11 11:05 GMT-03:00 John More <morej1 at mac.com>:

> From what I can see, the creation of the ChAC is already have a beneficial
> effect.  Chapters and Chapters leaders have more of a place to focus
> efforts.  As a former professor of Roman history, I would also agree that
> Rome was not built in a day.
>
> ISOC lists are useful, but I do find over the years that they can be
> distorted by participants who bring with them too much historical memory.
> IMHO one of the benefits of the ChAC is that they can prepare surveys,
> which can be better able to elicit the concerns of the Chapters.
>
> John More
>
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:56 AM, Peter Koch <pk at ISOC.DE <pk at isoc.de>> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 03:22:22PM +0200, Bert Wijnen (IETF) wrote:
>
> +1.
>
> On 11/04/16 13:20, Richard Hill wrote:
>
> Thanks for this. Here is my transcription of what Bob said:
>
> ?One thing that I?m very excited about the [Chapters] Advisory Council is
> that it will be the voice of all the chapters. I have a
> lot of personal experience about E-Mail lists and sometimes you hear from
> some people but you don?t necessarily hear from all of
> them. I believe that the Advisory Council can present a global view, a
> view of all the chapters, so I think that that will be very
> good.?
>
> For what it is worth, I agree with Bob.
>
>
> I am not sure I understand the issue.  Is this a question of tools or
> a question of discussion style or a question of composition of the
> "committee" (be that this list or the AC)?
>
> Mailing lists might have their deficiencies, but from all I've seen,
> "social" media do not necessarily encourage in-depth, nuanced debate
> in any better way.
> The superficial "+1" style that has found its way into email as well
> (not looking at anyone in particular) may increase numbers and thus
> broaden the basis, but only as long as you are a a believer in quantity.
>
> -Peter
>
> PS: and apologies to Mohamed El Bashir for carrying him along off-thread
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