[Chapter-delegates] ION Bangladesh 2016

[Jordi Iparraguirre]

Hi

as we are on it, I think staff and some of you will be coming to the MWC
in Barcelona. Your ISOC-CAT colleagues will be delighted to meet you :)

rgds
jordi

ISOC-CAT Chair
Catalan chapter of the Internet Society

El 15/02/16 a les 10:35, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond ha escrit:
> Dear Jahangir,
> 
> thank you for sharing your concerns. This is not the first time I hear
> of such problems. I think that the Chapter Advisory Council should take
> this problem up. It appears that at present the culture of communication
> has been lost by some parts of the ISOC structure. It is indeed
> embarrassing for a local chapter to learn about an event ISOC HQ is
> organising, in the way you have shared with us. It is even more
> embarrassing when participants get in touch with the local chapter to
> ask questions and the local chapter knows nothing about the event.
> As I said, this is something for the Chapter Advisory Council.
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Olivier
> 
> On 15/02/2016 06:17, Jahangir Hossain wrote:
>> Dear Delegates,
>>
>> Internet Society Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter
>> (<http://www.isoc.org.bd/dhaka/>http://www.isoc.org.bd/dhaka/) is
>> delighted  to know that ISOC (global) is organizing an ION event in
>> Dhaka, Bangladesh in collaboration with BdNOG. This is indeed a great
>> initiative in raising awareness, capacity building and, overall,
>> carrying forward ISOC's mission in Bangladesh. 
>>
>> We only learnt about this event from ISOC360 website when one of our
>> members
>> visited http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/bangladesh2016/.
>> However, since there have been no prior communication from ISOC
>> (global) with the chapter about this event we could not respond to our
>> members query about the chapter's role in this event. As such, we felt
>> bit uncomfortable. Our chapter is fairly new (since 2011) and we are
>> yet to learn how ISOC (global) works with chapter in organizing local
>> events. Is it usual that the local chapter is not informed before
>> doing a local event with another local entity? we thought it could
>> have been a great way to strengthen a very active chapter like ours if
>> we were given the opportunity to work in collaboration or even
>> mentioned!. 
>>
>> We are concerned thinking that  a very active and highly enthusiastic
>> local chapter has very little value/importance to ISOC (global) in
>> advancing ISOC's mission in Bangladesh. Our members are also beginning
>> to wonder how well the local chapter is connected with ISOC (global).
>>
>> ​We would like to hear about other chapter's opinion about this.​
>>
>>
>>
>> /Regards /
>> ​*​*
>> *
>> Jahangir*/
>> *​ Hossain*
>> On be half of
>> ISOC Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter
>> <http://www.isoc.org.bd/dhaka/>http://www.isoc.org.bd/dhaka/​
>>
>>
>>
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