[Fwd: Re: [Ncu-exec] South America]

[Alex Gakuru]

Dear Avri,

No! Please do not unvolunteer and all the more we need your EC
leadership! Forgive me if I gave that impression since fund raising is
THE most difficult which attracts least volunteers.

Your message actually provoked me to consider what I could volunteer
myself and I hope that we all volunteer on other aspects, immediately.
If agreeable, I volunteer myself to a 'ICT policy' Working Group..

What led to me suggest that were the 'technical' project
considerations, for example:

a) All of the desired features (in this case website/portal)-need for
a 'requirements study'?
b) Evaluations and decision on the best suited Content Management System(CMS)
c) Content updates: How best can it be made simpler for all volunteers involved
d) Online meetings transcripts-how can they be captured and the
minutes published online like ICANN does - The idea? We want to those
that cast doubts about us NCUC that as a basis of belittling our
processes.
e) Membership-perhaps members would like a login where can go to and
update their details, such as region, organisation type, category, and
own underway initiatives and the status (perhaps a web page where
reports their successes, needs and challenges - my example? We are
almost done  translating 'Top 10 Myths..' into Kiswahili Prof. Kimani
Njogu is editing the version by our member Grace Mutungu and its read
great! :)
...
...

All: re-double volunteer contributions to the EC for implementation.
We will develop a great "bottom-up" information and communication
framework based on a policy framework.

regards,

Alex

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Avri Doria <avri at ltu.se> wrote:
> hi,
>
> Does this mean I should unvolnteer until we have a new EC?
>
> a.
>
> On 12 Sep 2009, at 14:17, Alex Gakuru wrote:
>
>> I just looked up our Charter
>>
>> 2(3). Organization and Structure:
>>
>> "The Executive Committee, directed by the Chair, shall be responsible
>> for the administration of the Constituency, including arrangements for
>> meetings, website communications, listserv, and teleconferences...."
>>
>> Just wondering if we could task the new EC to prioritize development
>> of a broader "ICT Policy" soonest after they assume office?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Avri Doria <avri at ltu.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12 Sep 2009, at 10:44, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am ready to help draft a project if some more people volunteer to help
>>>> and we could try and seek funds for it (could ISOC/PIR fund it?) -- if
>>>> people agree my suggestion (and my "weird" opinion on monetizers) makes
>>>> sense, of course.
>>>
>>>
>>> count me as a volunteer.
>>>
>>> there are a fair number of FOSS possibilities, but as anyone who has
>>> worked
>>> with FOSS options eventually learns, FOSS is not free it either requires
>>> either  sweat equity or hired help.
>>>
>>> so i can help with writing funds applications, but will also help, to the
>>> extent of my abilities, with investigating and setting up the FOSS
>>> options
>>> while waiting for deliverance from people with funding.  I will, shortly
>>> have a fair amount of volunteer time that was dedicated to gnso council
>>> chair  activities (averaging about 30 hours/week for anyone who
>>> contemplates
>>> such a role) that i can dedicate some part of to this task.
>>>
>>> as for the principle of not giving my info to those who collect it for
>>> data
>>> mining,  it is a personal weakness (i use a google phone and gmail and
>>> twitter and ... after all) but i have already given up on that from a
>>> personal perspective (i use a google phone and gmail and twitter and ...
>>> after all).  i tend to think we need to worry about the laws that let
>>> them
>>> use it as opposed to their abilities to collect it.  but i have no issue
>>> with helping others avoid the surrender i have already made.
>>>
>>> and apologies if i insulted anyone by mentioning that if they had the
>>> time
>>> for the role they had the time for ...
>>>
>>> a.
>>>
>>
>