[Chapter-delegates] A call to chapters’ action

[Eduardo Diaz]

All :


The key issue with the included email (April 1) is the absence of formal
advice to the Board of Trustees (BOT), which should be wider than monthly
reports.  Formal advice must be submitted as a formal written
recommendation. These recommendations must be prepared by the Chapter’s
Advisory-Steering Committee (ChAC-SC) based on the requests from the
chapters for advice. Furthermore, these recommendations must receive
consensus approval from the Chapters Advisory Committee (ChAC) before their
submission to the BOT. This process ensures that the advice provided to the
BOT originates directly from the chapters rather than being solely produced
by the ChAC-SC, whose main responsibility is facilitating this process
among its other duties (see Charter section 5.2, 2nd bullet). The BOT must
answer the advice in written form and publish it on the ISOC webpage for
public view to provide transparency to the whole process. It has been noted
that no formal advice has been submitted to (or received from) the Board
for a considerable period.


-ed

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM Cheryl Langdon-Orr via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Regarding your specific questions re ChAC Luis,  in addition to email
> lists and ChAC Reps being often active on the CH-delegates list, the ChAC
> as an entity meets, as a plenary (with all ChAC Reps) 4 times a year (once
> a calendar quarter) and the report/update to the BoT occurs at the BoT
> meeting immediately after that plenary session, (often only days later in
> fact), BUT of course anything urgent or time critical can and would be
> transmitted intersessional to the calendar cadence of BoT gatherings...
>
> Additionally, the ChAC Steering Committee meets monthly, and not only any
> ongoing transmitted to the BoT or urgent new issues are discussed,
> reviewed, and, if needed, action at these more recent meetings  (at least
> since the end of 2022) an 'always open 24x7' box note system where any
> matter for the attention of the ChAC can be raised for between meeting note
> and action; as well as a separate open to ChAC Reps box note where any
> suggestions for topics and activities for future ChAC plenaries can be
> proposed is in operation.
>
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> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 at 12:55, 66499 via Chapter-delegates <
> chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Veni, Theo, Win, All,
>>
>> Thanks for your responses. Maybe we are not asking the right questions to
>> ourselves. What is the ISOC we imagine, the one we need and what is
>> possible to have ? Somehow we got in the slow lane, how many meetings the
>> ChAC has in a year ? How long it takes the information to get to the Board
>> ? If able, how the board may ask for some action and finally how long it
>> takes some change to happen ? That is something we have not figured out how
>> to overcome. We are getting speedy responses but that keeps us always
>> around the same place. That’s why we need more strategy which needs to be
>> figured out from collective thinking. Is it lack of leadership ? I have the
>> feeling that if we do not reflect we wont be building that future we would
>> like to be at.
>>
>> Let’s keep the discussion.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Luis
>>
>
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