[Chapter-delegates] Request of comments: Application to Start an Internet Society Chapter in Guinea.
Jean-Baptiste MILLOGO
jbmillogo at gmail.com
Sat Sep 2 09:15:54 PDT 2017
Hello Victor.
Dear all,
I support this chapter project.
Best regards,
2017-09-01 17:20 GMT+00:00 Victor Ndonnang <ndonnang at isoc.org>:
> Dear Chapter Leaders,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thank you very much in advance for your collaboration and valuable inputs.
>
> Best regards,
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> *APPLICATION TO START AN INTERNET SOCIETY CHAPTER IN GUINEA*
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> *A. **Proposed name for the chapter*
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> Internet Society (ISOC) Guinea Chapter or Chapitre Guinéen de l’Internet
> Society, abbreviated as Chapitre Guinéen de l’ISOC.
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> *B. **Community of interest*
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> The whole of individual ISOC members and Internet users in the Republic of
> Guinea.
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> *C. **Objective and scope of the chapter*
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> The purpose of the Chapter is for Internet defence and promotion in the
> Republic of Guinea. To do this, the Chapter:
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> • promotes accessibility, interoperability and the universal right to
> Internet usage as well as the role and place of users in the Internet's
> evolution.
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> • 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;
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> • participates in the development of different public standards and
> norms related to the technical development of the Internet.
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> • 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.
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> • fosters participation in all types of cooperative, Guinean or
> international projects, either of a private or public nature;
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> • 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.
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> • promotes and organises training for Internet professionals;
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> • promotes the multi-stakeholder governance of the Internet in
> Guinea;
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> • promotes the security and protection of Internet privacy;
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> • demystifies Internet terms and vocabulary for Internet users;
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> • 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;
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> • makes its position and those of the ISOC known to all physical or
> legal persons interested in the Internet;
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> • 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.
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> • 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.
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> • 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.
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> • will benefit people and members of the Internet Society living or
> working in the Republic of Guinea.
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> *D. **Summary of main priorities for the first year of the Chapter*
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> • To expand the circle of members of the chapter to include a maximum
> number of physical and legal persons in the chapter
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> • To organise or participate in the Forum on Internet Governance in
> Guinea and make sure that the multi-shareholder model is respected.
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> • 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;
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> • To encourage Guinean participation in the work of the ISOC;
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> • To actively participate in implementation and development projects
> of the IXP and the repatriation of CcTLD.gn.
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> • To promote and organise training courses for Internet professionals
> and Internet users;
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> *E. **Founding members of the Chapter*
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> *F. **List of advocates and partner organisations*
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> *G. **Membership conditions*
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> Membership of the Guinea ISOC chapter is open to all the members of the
> Internet Society living in Guinea without discrimination.
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> Our immobilisation and membership strategy relies on the following points:
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> • Research of reservoir organisations of potential members
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> • Promotion of the chapter
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> • Participation of the chapter in the Internet development plan.
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> • Creation of a flagship programme
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> • Use of social media to generate interest.
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> • *Research of reservoir organisations of potential members *
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Finally, we believe that national press associations make up an important
> means of mobilising and attracting the entire community of Internet users
> in Guinea.
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> • *Promotion of the chapter*
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> 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
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> For this purpose, we propose launching a promotion plan of our chapter,
> based on the following points:
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> • *Press releases*: We identify local information media, online
> publications, blogs or play-lists that cover themes that best represent our
> chapter's objectives.
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> • *Create a welcome event*: our chapter will organise a social event
> in order to get to know the community.
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> • *Participation of the chapter in the Internet development plan.*
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> 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).
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> • *Creation of a flagship programme*
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> 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:
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> • The development of connectivity in underprivileged communities
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> • Internet competency education in secondary and university
> institutions.
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> • A weekly radio programme on Internet governance and neutrality.
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> • Education of professionals in different Internet-related services,
> protocols and professions.
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> • *Use of social network to generate interest*
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> • Our digital communication strategy will be based on the following
> objectives:
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> § 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.
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> § Information of members of our different activities
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> • Provide information on our different activities to gather people
> with common interests.
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> • Raising awareness and organising campaigns related to the Internet.
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> *H. **List of requirements*
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> To benefit from an NGO approval, we must:
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> - Have statuses in accordance with laws regulating NGO's
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> - Have an operational headquarters
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> - Have action plans of which the execution will be controlled by
> authorities through activities that will be registered with them
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> - Indicate the financial sources of chapter activities
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> - There must be an entity in the office that is in charge of control
> and audit
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> *I. **Supplementary information*
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> *J. **Your contacts*
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> Aboubacar KOUROUMA
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> PO box: 668-Conakry
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> +224 622 231212
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> akourouma at bdktelekom.com.gn
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> Ahmed Camille CAMARA
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> +224 621 232331
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> acamille.c2 at gmail.com
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> Noumouké CONDE
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> +224 655 42 60 85
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> +224 655 41 05 06
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> Nconde001 at gmail.com
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> --
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> Victor Ndonnang
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> Chapter Development Manager, Africa & Middle East.
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> Internet Society
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Jean Baptiste MILLOGO
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