[Chapter-delegates] Thank you, Joyce, for pulling back the attempt to give more orders to chapters

[Nadira Alaraj]

Thanks Dave,
We all have to be thankful for ISOC move towards its attempts to make its
bottom up motto a working structure. The creation of the Chapters Advisory
Council (ChAC)  was one of these steps in achieving that. I believe of
small strides at a time than a complete restructuring the current working
model.
However, there is still more work to be done on the Chapters level.
There is a need to identify how active is th active chapters are because of
the dynamic political environment which goes on the country level, some
chapters have to freeze their activities because of that challenges.

One expects that at least each chapter to have a representative at the ChAC
but in reality it is not the case. Adding, those who have representation
hardly attend any of the 3 annual meetings.
This might give the impression that there an ISOC structure of ghost
chapters.
I agree with you that we need to make a stronger chapters. But how to make
ISOC have a role in this an email thread or even creating a group to keep
the dialog going on to feed into the ChAC to make the ideas a practical
working actions.




On Sep 6, 2017 5:23 PM, "Dave Burstein" <daveb at dslprime.com> wrote:

Folks

After 160 comments, Joyce has just announced the right move. Rather than
staff making a final, definitely inappropriate set of rules for the
chapters, the next proposal "will be presented to the Chapters AC Steering
Committee for revision and we will work with them to identify next steps.
...  I’m confident that together we can find a consensus that is acceptable
to all."

This is a good, early step toward "multi-stakeholder" decisionmaking in
ISOC. (I prefer to say democratic.)

All, please. Let's follow this up with a frank, clear, and effective
discussion on making ISOC more democratic. People from over half the active
chapters spoke up. Please continue to do so.

This isn't about a few personalities, it's about stronger chapters that
will make ISOC more effective.

Almost all of us are here because we care about a great Internet for
everyone. We need substantial action, not just vague "high order
principles" and more talk. We need a staff who understand top down
decisionmaking holds back the work.

The next step is to approve the Chapters proposal that has been pending for
almost a year and a half. That would allow chapters to send delegates to
events, decide how to spend the grand total of 3% of the ISOC budget, be
consulted when staff are presenting to the governments in their country,
and more.

That was blocked for now in a closed session of the board, with no public
reason given beyond "we have to control all the money."

Gonzalo, Kathy, all - let's make it so and start working together.

Anyone who doesn't understand that should be politely educated about what
ISOC stands for.

Dave Burstein

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