Dear ISOC Team: Thanks for your email. This is great! Am so happy to read it. The ISOC Chapter for Kenya is long over due. I hope that this initiative shall really make it, 'this time'. I am looking forward to participate actively in the same. If it is of any use, having being an ISOC Ambassador to IGF9, I thought, with the help of Dr. Dawit Bekele [my IGF9 mentor).............together with the former KENIC Administrative Manager [Kiragu], my very good friend Barrack Otieno................we were in the process of restarting the same process for ISOC Kenya Chapter. Infact, we had come up with a document that would enable both the registration here in Kenya [according to the Societies Act] as well as for submission to ISOC Head Office for due recognition and formation. Whatever the case may be, am glad to know that I can be a part of this great opportunity for Kenya. ISOC is a really great organization to be part of. I look forward to hearing more. Just so you know, am forever going to be grateful to ISOC, because since IGF9, I have done alot and inspired so many towards an increased appetite for the use of ICTs and the Internet in their 'day-to-day living.' The future is bright and the best is yet to come for many in developing countries. Many thanks to ISOC for your continued support, in every way. Kind regards, John Njoroge. On 7/29/11, ISOC Chapter Support <chapter-support@isoc.org> wrote:

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Dear John Njoroge,

This email is an invitation to join the Chapter formation process for a new Internet Society Chapter in Kenya.

You can read more about Internet Society Chapters at: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/

The Chapter formation process is a bottom up process, so we rely on interested volunteers to take it forward, but we will of course also be there to help you. Those interested should be able to spend some time working to help shape a future Internet Society Chapter in Kenya.

It does indeed take time and effort to run a successful Chapter and a strong team is therefore needed, composed of individuals from different stakeholder organizations within Kenya. Everyone is thus invited to take part in helping to shape the Chapter.

You can read more about the Chapter formation process at: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/application/

If you are interested in becoming an active part of shaping the new Internet Society Kenya Chapter with real action and time as a volunteer, then you are invited to join the local group that is currently working on the establishment of the Chapter.

In order to do so, you can sign up to the newly created mailing list at http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc

You can then post to the list by sending an e-mail to <isoc@lists.my.co.ke>

A first members meeting is scheduled to take place on 19 August 2011. Please save the date! Details about the venue will be communicated as the date approaches. More information about this meeting will be made available on the above-mentioned mailing list.

This "Expressions of Interest" email has been sent to all Internet Society members in Kenya. Please feel free to forward this message to other people you think might be interested in joining the Internet Society and in participating in this process.

Best regards,

Christine

--------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Society (ISOC) Christine Saegesser Baethge Manager, Chapter Development Website: www.InternetSociety.org ---------------------------------------------------------------