[Chapter-delegates] Request of comments: Application to Start an Internet Society Chapter in Guinea.
Victor Ndonnang
ndonnang at isoc.org
Fri Sep 1 10:20:25 PDT 2017
Dear Chapter Leaders,
We have received recently the below application to start an Internet Society chapter in Guinea. I would like to invite you to review it and share your comments by 15 September 2017. For your reference, the below application is a translation in English of the original application that was in French.
If you know an active member of our community living in Guinea that you would like to invite join this chapter formation project, please let me as well.
Thank you very much in advance for your collaboration and valuable inputs.
Best regards,
APPLICATION TO START AN INTERNET SOCIETY CHAPTER IN GUINEA
A. Proposed name for the chapter
Internet Society (ISOC) Guinea Chapter or Chapitre Guinéen de l’Internet Society, abbreviated as Chapitre Guinéen de l’ISOC.
B. Community of interest
The whole of individual ISOC members and Internet users in the Republic of Guinea.
C. Objective and scope of the chapter
The purpose of the Chapter is for Internet defence and promotion in the Republic of Guinea. To do this, the Chapter:
• promotes accessibility, interoperability and the universal right to Internet usage as well as the role and place of users in the Internet's evolution.
• promotes the productive and responsible usage of Internet in Guinea by highlighting acquired experiences, offering first level information and favouring contact between members and with other members of the ISOC;
• participates in the development of different public standards and norms related to the technical development of the Internet.
• encourages and supports Guinean participation in work of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) organisation, in charge of the development of public Internet norms and standards.
• fosters participation in all types of cooperative, Guinean or international projects, either of a private or public nature;
• actively participates in implementation and development projects of the Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and the repatriation of the name of the national domain (ccTLD).gn.
• promotes and organises training for Internet professionals;
• promotes the multi-stakeholder governance of the Internet in Guinea;
• promotes the security and protection of Internet privacy;
• demystifies Internet terms and vocabulary for Internet users;
• promotes adequate treatment of national languages on the Internet, encourages the creation and distribution of local content and favours the cooperation with other African ISOC Chapters;
• makes its position and those of the ISOC known to all physical or legal persons interested in the Internet;
• generates, prepares and participates in all meetings, demonstrations, conferences, work or commission groups, formal or informal, as well as in all books or publications, whether or not by electronic means, in particularly the Internet, in accordance with its social objective.
• takes part in all activities working toward the creation of a favourable environment, democratisation of access and in a general sense, aiming to promote the Internet in Guinea.
• serves purposes of the Internet Society by serving the interests of a local community, by paying attention to problems and to their evolution, and by the usage of local languages.
• will benefit people and members of the Internet Society living or working in the Republic of Guinea.
D. Summary of main priorities for the first year of the Chapter
• To expand the circle of members of the chapter to include a maximum number of physical and legal persons in the chapter
• To organise or participate in the Forum on Internet Governance in Guinea and make sure that the multi-shareholder model is respected.
• To promote the usage of Internet in Guinea by highlighting acquired experiences, offering first level information and favouring contact between members and with other members of the ISOC;
• To encourage Guinean participation in the work of the ISOC;
• To actively participate in implementation and development projects of the IXP and the repatriation of CcTLD.gn.
• To promote and organise training courses for Internet professionals and Internet users;
E. Founding members of the Chapter
F. List of advocates and partner organisations
G. Membership conditions
Membership of the Guinea ISOC chapter is open to all the members of the Internet Society living in Guinea without discrimination.
Our immobilisation and membership strategy relies on the following points:
• Research of reservoir organisations of potential members
• Promotion of the chapter
• Participation of the chapter in the Internet development plan.
• Creation of a flagship programme
• Use of social media to generate interest.
• Research of reservoir organisations of potential members
Our strategy for attracting members consists of searching for organisations that could have a reservoir of evident potential members. Superior education institutions are excellent reservoirs. For this we will elect as presidents of university sections, professors whose courses are related to the Internet, who often face students interested in Internet usage for their social and professional development. For this position, they will be able to promote the chapter amongst students, which will allow the chapter to attract a larger number of young people. These institutions or other types of institutions and organisations, being members, will be able to have access to more precious resources.
In the same way, if the directors of the chapter are affiliated to companies that provide technology services, these companies' technicians represent very good resources.
Finally, we believe that national press associations make up an important means of mobilising and attracting the entire community of Internet users in Guinea.
• Promotion of the chapter
Promotion and marketing allow us to talk about our chapter to the entire world, in particular about its creation, projects and events, its role and position in demystifying Internet use. Everything that we do to make the chapter and press releases heard through advertisements on mailing lists, passing through social media
For this purpose, we propose launching a promotion plan of our chapter, based on the following points:
• Press releases: We identify local information media, online publications, blogs or play-lists that cover themes that best represent our chapter's objectives.
• Create a welcome event: our chapter will organise a social event in order to get to know the community.
• Participation of the chapter in the Internet development plan.
For the mobilisation of different participators in the community, our chapter will keep an eye on commercial information and technologies and will find opportunities to build its reputation in Internet development. For example, if our country creates a legislation or regulations that could have an impact on Internet development, our chapter will be in charge of publishing a declaration in the media concerning its position on these questions (after having consulted with our members and the ISOC headquarters).
• Creation of a flagship programme
Our chapter creates its profile through the creation of flagship programmes. A flagship programme is a collection of projects that our chapter considers to be activities that have the most social impact. With our flagship programme, the Guinean chapter of Internet Society will be even fit to construct its own identity. We identify as projects:
• The development of connectivity in underprivileged communities
• Internet competency education in secondary and university institutions.
• A weekly radio programme on Internet governance and neutrality.
• Education of professionals in different Internet-related services, protocols and professions.
• Use of social network to generate interest
• Our digital communication strategy will be based on the following objectives:
§ The creation of groups on different platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, to name just a few, in order to mobilise the maximum number of people interested in the development of Internet in our country.
§ Information of members of our different activities
• Provide information on our different activities to gather people with common interests.
• Raising awareness and organising campaigns related to the Internet.
H. List of requirements
To benefit from an NGO approval, we must:
- Have statuses in accordance with laws regulating NGO's
- Have an operational headquarters
- Have action plans of which the execution will be controlled by authorities through activities that will be registered with them
- Indicate the financial sources of chapter activities
- There must be an entity in the office that is in charge of control and audit
I. Supplementary information
The Republic of Guinea was connected to Internet in September 1997 by an American project piloted by the USAID during its Leland initiative. This first connection was provided by means of a VSAT satellite connection. From this date on, connectivity has evolved to develop today ACE submarine fibre optic cables.
Likewise, Internet usage made important progress as well as the rate of digital penetration. However, the Internet community has a hard time organising themselves and gathering up as one entity to defend, demystify and democratise the Internet. The first attempts to install an ISOC chapter in Guinea were in 1998, or 19 years from today. These different attempts were not successful for many reasons. Today, motivated people have voluntarily decided to gather the various domains of the Internet community in the Republic of Guinea to promote this human resource. The approach towards older people who supported the first attempts are also in progress, because we want a community as large as possible. We believe that the Internet Society (ISOC) is the best organisation that corresponds to our ambitions and objectives.
It is for all these reasons that we request the membership of our initiative in the Internet Society in order to solicit approval from authorities and to start our activities. A thorough examination of our application will allow us to make progress towards democratisation of the Internet in the Republic of Guinea.
J. Your contacts
Aboubacar KOUROUMA
PO box: 668-Conakry
+224 622 231212
akourouma at bdktelekom.com.gn
Ahmed Camille CAMARA
+224 621 232331
acamille.c2 at gmail.com
Noumouké CONDE
+224 655 42 60 85
+224 655 41 05 06
Nconde001 at gmail.com
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Chapter Development Manager, Africa & Middle East.
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