[Chapter-delegates] Internet Society Accountability: a response to a message on the thread of making ISOC multi-stakeholder, with the subject line renamed.

[Andrea Romaoli Garcia]

I don't feel the work hampered by the participation of others but a little bit control will be positive.
The way ISOC is set up today allows a work oriented to local needs.
I add that Chaptor NY has a greater responsibility and visibility because it drives the other chapters and brings new subjects to discuss for other instituitionscaround the world.
A little bit of control is needed but volunteers  input can identify new solutions  that the meetings routine extinguishes.
I don't live in the United States but I've been serving shelters in Washington for volunteering...  Well... stakeholders and member must work together 
There are volunteers  and stakeholder with technical ability that is helpful. But I think we should control a hight level  to maintain the quality of the discussions and close the doors to those demagogues who do nothing but just wish put their name in the highlightner

ANDRÉA ROMAOLI GARCIA 
OABSP 332.542
Director ISOC-NY  
ICANN Latin American and Caribbean 
United Nations NY 
+55 14 99162-3774



On 30 Mar 2018, at 10:37, Sivasubramanian M <6.Internet at gmail.com> wrote:

>> While ISOC has been successful, we do not know if the current structure has contributed to that success, or if ISOC could have been more successful if member-driven.
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> ​Agreed. We can not possibly deny that ICANN would be more successful nor assert that it would be less successful in a member-driven scenario. What I said was that it worked. 
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>> While I agree with Dave completely, the reality is giving members control is contrary to the founding documents and formal structure of ISOC.  ISOC is not, and never has been, a community of members, or democratic.  It is a Trust, organised around managing a perpetual flow of income.  Members do not contribute to that income, and are therefore powerless.  Article V.1 states “Individual members shall not have any voting rights with respect to the Society.”  
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> ​The founding documents probably did not anticipate ISOC to take shape as a Community with several hundred 'volunteers' of good Technical and Policy expertise. ISOC unwittingly imparts the impression of a Community driven organization, and it is this perception that renders credibility to ISOC's policy advice.  
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