[Chapter-delegates] On funding dedicated to chapters

[Veni Markovski]

Tom,
in another list, maintained by ISOC, and dedicated to ISOC's "governance 
reform", when I raised a question about diversity, was confronted with 
questions that diversity should not be "forced" (not sure who's forcing 
it, since none of us, chapter leaders, has any power to "force" anything 
on ISOC?!), but people should be taken by their experience, expertise, 
skills, etc. This, of course is true, the only problem is that it's not 
the entire truth, as there are experienced and skilled experts around 
the world; and the org members, and the IETF have enough experts among 
their members/employees/volunteers, who are not necessarily only from 
North America...

It seems that lack of diversity is one problem, and not understanding 
that it is a problem, is... another problem.

v/


On 10/5/21 09:18, Tom Fredrik Blenning via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> Den 02.10.2021 15:40, skrev Gihan Dias via Chapter-delegates:
>> On 01/10/2021 14:58, Ted Hardie via Chapter-delegates wrote:
>>>
>>> We recently updated 
>>> https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/ 
>>> <https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/> to include 
>>> contact information for the board chair, so that the chair can 
>>> forward information received to the Trustees.
>>
>> WOW!
>>
>> 10 people from US (1 moving to Canada), another from North America, 1 
>> from Asia and 1 from Africa.
>
> I reacted to the same myself, and I think it's something that is worth 
> looking into. I would like to draw attention to those trustee members 
> appointed by IETF, every single one is from the United States.
>
> In am not looking for a perfect demographic composition of the board, 
> it is however important to have different perspectives. I am reluctant 
> to believe that the current board of trustees represents such diversity.
>
> -Tom Fredrik
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