Hi First of all, thank you very much for this work. It is quite long and it seems a lot of thinking went into it. Please consider the following, that may need debate/explanation/improvement: On a really organisational kind of way, I am confused. Shall members elect a board then elect officers? Will that not lead to two centres of power? What are the functions of the board that are so different from the officers? Can these be merged? How about members elect a board/office and the board/office employs a secretariat to run the office if necessary? How about members vote for officers, a chair, deputy chair etc and then nominate representatives to the Committee from under-represented sectors. Alternatively, members vote and find a way to have sector representatives by naming organisations that can nominate? However, considering the document as it is, here are some comments on the articles as they appear. Name: I would prefer ISOC KE to suggested the KENISOC:) There is need to define ISOC as it appears severally in the document but by mere reading of the by-laws, one cannot tell what ISOC is. Objects/Purpose: Can we try to incorporate what members had expressed in earlier discussions, eg to achieve universal Internet access, education, training? etc (Art III 2 on Membership classes: Why can these not be decided in the by-laws so that a member joining already knows the class they are joining? In fact later on "individual members" are mentioned but they are not defined. Which brings the question, does one have to be a Kenyan citizen to be a member? Art IV Board of Trustees: Under what criteria do we weigh some sectors as heavier than others? Isn't it better to have all sectors equally represented? I suggest that in members of the Board we can add a general provision for persons who have experience in matters related to Internet Governance etc so as to accommodate very good people who may be from any of the sectors at a time when that sector is already represented. Under such a provision we can limit the number of these "other experienced persons" to a maximum of three? In describing gender parity, the practice nowadays is to say, at least one third must be from either gender:) towards the end of the document there are two mentions of "senior manager". Who is that? Article XII and XIII have many strange ideas that needed to have been defined earlier...senior manager, chapters....They need to be adopted to these by-laws so that they can be in tandem with the rest of the document. ------------------ Once again thanks to the people who undertook this task. Cheers, Grace. 2011/9/1 Alex Ngatia <alex.ngatia@gmail.com>
Hi guys,
Good draft. Quite some work you've put into it. I guess it will be refined as we go along, but as for me I currently have no additions/subtractions to make.
On 9/1/11, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
Listers,
Kindly go through the attached document prepared by one of us, let us comment on the same before the next meeting.
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