[Chapter-delegates] ChAC Decision Needed: Proposal for greater Chapter participation in developing position & policy briefs

[Gihan Dias]

On 22/08/2016 09:45, Satish Babu wrote:
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> 2. Although it's somewhat on a tangent, I would also like to point out 
> that there is a very real gap in countries where there are multiple 
> Internet Society Chapters without a 'national' chapter. For instance, 
> India has five local ISOC chapters, but no national chapter nor a 
> national co-ordination body. In many countries, there is a role for a 
> country-level civil society organization for Internet-related aspects 
> that can liaise, co-ordinate and work in other ways with the national 
> government. This is perhaps a good role for an ISOC Chapter (or other 
> grouping ISOC structure made of members/chapters). The risk is that if 
> ISOC does not provide such a structure, other non-ISOC 
> structures/organizations will emerge to claim this space. 

Satish,

I agree.

I'm not sure if this would fit in with the current proposal, but 
possibly the Indian chapters could get together can forward a proposal 
to the ChAC. It might be possible to obtain a funding for a 
meeting/workshop to come up with such a proposal.

Gihan

(not speaking as a Trustee)