Walu,
That was my original thinking as well. The Isoc staff explained that city chapters are on the rise, especially in larger nations, so chapters can act locally. In usa they are able to have chapters in multiple cities, thus multiplying the efforts that could be achieved by a national chapter. We could call it central kenya chapter or nairobi chapter and still do projects in coastal or Western.

If we want to do rural access projects then maybe we could focus on the entire country, but i think that may be hard to sustain.

It will of course depend on funding sources.  Maybe an endowment from the mobicos/usf fund?

Rgds, McTim

On Oct 6, 2011 7:38 PM, "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> McTim,
>
> I get ur point about Nairobi Chapter - particularly because most membership is likely to be based around Nairobi. HOWEVER, I would advise we go for the KENYA chapter despite this fact.
>
> Reasons?
> 1.  A Nairobi Chapter would from the word go be exclusive (denying potential Non-Nairobi members an opportunity to join given that other chapters MSA, KSM etc are less likely to go live any time soon)
>
> 2. Usually start with a Country Chapter and after years of growth and demonstrated value, then other chapters can be encouraged to "break-away"...
>
> walu.
>
> --- On Thu, 10/6/11, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ISOC_KE] Fw:
> To: "McTim" <dogwallah@gmail.com>, "DOTTO COMPUTER AGENCY LTD" <dottocomp@yahoo.com>, "isoc@lists.my.co.ke" <isoc@lists.my.co.ke>
> Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:34 PM
>
> Good point McTim, we need consensus on what we should as a chapter, on
> the model what if we have a country chapter and then various city
> offshoots, Grace can you advice from a legal perspective?
>
> On 10/6/11, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We were informed that Chapter formation might take up to a year, so we
>> should take our time figuring out what we want a Chapter to do.
>>
>> Obviously we need to meet again to discuss this, but let's have your
>> ideas online first!
>>
>> Daniel, what is it that you think an ISOC Chpater should do??
>>
>> Maybe we should all list our top 3 items?
>>
>>
>> We also need to consider seriously the idea of a City Chapter and not
>> a Country Chapter.  After all, if we are not active in
>> kisumu/mombasa/.elsewhere, then we shouldn't deny folks there from
>> making their own chapter!
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> McTim
>> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
>> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:47 AM, DOTTO COMPUTER AGENCY LTD
>> <dottocomp@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello folks how far are we now...?
>>>
>>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>>> From: Dawit Bekele <bekele@isoc.org>
>>> To: 'Lynn St.Amour' <st.amour@isoc.org>; 'DOTTO COMPUTER AGENCY LTD'
>>> <dottocomp@yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: 'ISOC Chapter Support' <chapter-support@isoc.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 11:27 AM
>>> Subject: RE:
>>>
>>> Dear Daniel,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your interest for the Internet Society and your enthusiasm
>>> to
>>> promote the Internet Society's mission in your region. Indeed, East Africa
>>> is going through major ICT changes and the Internet Society would like to
>>> continue to contribute the development of Internet in East Africa, which
>>> is
>>> why we are very happy that the Kenyan chapter establishment is going well.
>>>
>>> As I said to the members of the establishment team that we met in Nairobi
>>> last week, the African regional bureau is available to assist/advise you
>>> in
>>> the process. We are expecting the formal application that I hope will come
>>> soon. After that, we will advise you about every step that you need to
>>> follow to have the chapter chartered the briefest delay.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Dawit
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>>> >
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> McTim
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