The best ISOC Kenya Chapter formation approach, I think, would be to fast forward, say, 20 years into the future then look back at today and decide what can take us there?

Infrastructre will be in place, Internet widespread, myriads of soft issues will have emerged which various cities/towns residents will keenly contribute to. Not forgetting our brand new constitution created counties, hence decentralising hitherto Nairobi-centric approach to everything.

In short, much embrace the National Council idea with other regional/counties leads/ representatives or, for lack of a better, "formations."

thanks,

Alex

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
Thanks, Christine, for a helpful detailed explanation.

We have thought a bit about this in New York, where we have an active "uptown" membership in Harlem that might merit their own organization.  It would really be a SIG under a different name. The word we came up with is "branch". Yet to initiate, but probably will in the next year.

I just attended  a Chapter Workshop in Philadelphia and again, was impressed by the DC Chapter's novel arrangement. They dispense with President, VP etc - and have two Convenors plus a 15 person Council. Plus 2 year term limits!   I think the last is might be questionable, as we have seen with most Chapters there are always a few solid individuals who are the backbone, but the council idea is not unattractive.  

So maybe something like a national "Council" with separate branches for Mombasa and Nairobi might work?



j

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Christine Saegesser <saegesser@isoc.org> wrote:
Hi all,
 
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We nevertheless see the difficulty of reaching out to various groups over a geographically very large area. Some solutions to this might include the creation of local "contact groups" or "interest groups" of a national Chapter (e.g. groups with a focus on specific ICT policy or technical issues). The members of these groups would still be direct members of the Internet Society Kenya Chapter (and thus members of ISOC).

I hope you find these explanations helpful - and sorry for the length of this message!

Best regards,

Christine


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