On 10/7/11, Davis Onsakia <
mautidavis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> My honest take on this is that restricting ourselves to city chapters is not
> the ideal way to go. This is due to the fact that our cities ( Mombasa and
> Kisumu, other than Nairobi) are not that ICT-developed that we expect them
> to form chapters anytime soon - even in the next three year! Just look how
> long the Kenyan chapter (country chapter remember) has taken to be mooted.
> Chapters like Rwanda chapter kicked off a while back. On this same note, we
> need to borrow from our African brothers: they have country chapters and not
> city chapters. I have not heard of a city chapter in Africa vibrant or
> dormant - I'm ready to be enlightened though.
>
> The ISOC advice should be taken but we should too take local conditions into
> consideration when forming our own chapter. I would not like a situation
> where a brother or sister from Kakamega feels like a visitor in a Nairobi
> chapter - we need to pick up as country chapter and move on. Once we are
> vibrant enough, may be then we can then form sub-chapters (not chapters at
> City or town level) - I hope that this allowed by the ISOC constitution.
>
> But honestly, a city chapter cannot take us anywhere now, may be later.
>
> My humble submission.
>
> Regards and many thanks,
> Davis M Onsakia
>
> 'The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you
> settled for.' - Maureen Dowd
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Barrack Otieno <
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> To: McTim <
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> Cc: "
isoc@lists.my.co.ke" <
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> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] Fw:
>
>
> McTim, i think that is why we need some legal guidance in so far as the
> Registrar of Societies is concerned before making a move, i hope Grace can
> help us crack this or any other legal expert within the ISOC Ke fraternity.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:26 PM, McTim <
dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Ronald Ojino <
ronojinx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Sorry for my late entry into the discussion. However as a resident of
>>> kisumu, i think we should stick to the kenyan chapter so as not to
>>> lock out people like us. Just to echo Walubengo's sentiments,it may
>>> take a long while to come up with chapters in other parts of the
>>> country. i also think that we can equally contribute to isoc kenya via
>>> remote participation. It also makes logic if the city chapters are
>>> born from the country chapter.
>>
>>Yes, but if we declare the entire nation of kenya as our area of
>>influence in our chapter application, we will have to dissolve the KE
>>Chapter if we want to do city chapters. There is no reason that we
>>couldn't have a Kisumu/Mombasa/Wajir resident join our NBO Chapter as
>>well.
>>
>>Deserves a good deal of thought I think.
>>
>>
>>--
>>Cheers,
>>
>>McTim
>>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
>>route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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