[Chapter-delegates] A thanks to our Bengaluru and Kenya chapters

[Charles Mok (gmail)]

It's great and refreshing to see our senior management appreciating the
importance and contribution of our chapters in fostering the goals of the
Society -- locally and globally! Thanks for the update Chris!!

Charles


On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM Christopher Locke via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone.
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> I just wanted to send a quick ‘kudos’ email of thanks out to Alphonce and
> the Kenya Chapter team and Adarsh & Rajan at the Bengaluru chapters for
> meeting with me and others on my recent trips.  We are beginning an
> ambitious strategy to crowd-in funding from other donors to increase the
> support we can give in grant funding over the next five years, and in both
> cases I was well supported by the local chapters in these meetings.
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> In Nairobi Alphonce and his team joined me and ISOC staff at a lunch with
> the local Mastercard Foundation team, where we discussed how our work on
> community connectivity and training provides essential support to bringing
> people into a safe, secure and reliable internet.  In Bengaluru Adarsh &
> Rajan joined me at a dinner with local ISOC staff and an august group
> including Reeta Roy (President of the Mastercard Foundation), James Mwangi
> (CEO of Equity Bank Kenya) and Patrick Awuah (Founder & Principle at Ashesi
> University Ghana).  Adarsh & Rajan presented and chatted to the group about
> their work and how ISOC chapters support training and connectivity, and how
> global efforts such as the Rural SIG support the goals of foundations such
> as the Mastercard Foundation and Equity Bank.
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> There is a power in getting our chapters and community into these meetings
> with potential partners and donors.  The real power of what we do comes
> from partners hearing this first hand from our community.  It’s been
> fantastic to get the support of Aphonce, Adarsh and their teams as we do
> this, and it’s something we will continue to do as we build our co-funding
> coalitions.  I will talk more about this on the future Chapter Advisory
> calls and am very happy to do other calls dedicated to explaining our
> approach and how Chapters can support and get involved on other calls if
> desired.  We’re still in the development stage but I hope in 2025 working
> together we can create partnerships that will support a lot of our work
> over the next five years.
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> I’ll be in Ethiopia this week at the Internet Development Conference
> meeting more Chapters, as Sally and I will continue to do as we travel, not
> just drawing you into meetings for your support, but also listening to you
> to understand how we can work better together.  2025 is shaping up to be an
> exciting and productive year for us all, and I want to thank those Chapters
> who have already taken the time to meet and work with us, and I look
> forward to doing more of this throughout the year.
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> Best, Chris.
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> *Chris Locke,* EVP & MD of Internet Society Foundation
> locke at isocfoundation.org | Time zone: UTC -0 | Pronouns: he/him/his
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