3 May
2018
3 May
'18
8:20 p.m.
Thanks all for the initiative. We keen. Strengthen exchange of
experiences and links between transnational/transregional in the way you
describe, sounds excellent. I'm not thinking only on on the value for
reusing experiences, but also developing personal cross-relationships in
a way that motivates the community contributors.
We have to find out ways to promote this yes or yes.
At the Panos pad, I'm just thinking how we can contribute, in particular
to the 2nd point.
But maybe now it's time for writing the proposal for a grant?
r.
El 03/05/18 a les 14:15, Sol Luca de Tena ha escrit:
Hi all,
Thanks Nico P for this. I agree this is a great opportunity and I
agree with your framework. Also related, Nico E and I had a meeting
with two of the coordinators of Chapters/SIGs in ISOC - Kyle and
Christine. Summarising and answering some of the queries posed by Nico
P; they said that each Chapter/SIG could receive 1, maybe 2 grants.
What I understood is that SIGs are considered global groups and
therefore projects should deal with transnational/ transregional
issues (where Chapter have more regional focus). They also mentioned
that while the grants are awarded to the SIG there is a choice of who
participates - meaning either all organisations participate, or only
those who are interested. We also need to keep in mind that the grant
application closes on the 15th May, so we need to act quickly if we
want to use this opportunity.
In terms of topics, two ideas from my side.
1) I think 'exchange of experience' is highly under rated. I think if
we had the means to spend time in understanding each other's
organisations and our practices better we would learn a lot. I mean a
more long term, funded exchange, where maybe we can visit each other
and learn on site. I have spoken to many of you and each time I learn
something new and applicable to solve an issue we have. These
conversations however are usually rushed, over email or over coffee at
a Summit. I think we could propose an exchange program between CNs,
and then highlight a few key issues (I propose one below) that we can
address and create some sort of outcome with (Best practices?Golden
tips?Benefits of CNs?).
2) in term of topics to discuss (or exchange experience on) I am
personally very interested in the issues/challenges of creating a just
governance structure (and business structure) that is sustainable and
people-centred. In our South African context the "just" refers
specifically to the inequality that permeates South Africa's
social-economic context, but I think its also relevant to all CNs. Its
about finding practical, sound ways to practice as organisations that
are more people-centred, and that eventually dont depend on grants.
Who's keen?
If you are keen please send a message and Ill set up a doodle so we
can meet and make a proposal.
Cheers,
Sol
2018-04-29 22:33 GMT+02:00 panayotis antoniadis <panayotis(a)nethood.org
<mailto:panayotis@nethood.org>>:
Hi all,
Were there any news regarding the BeyondTheNet grant application?
Personally I would be willing to contribute to a "CNSIG-wide"
application which could be used as a "template" from local
chapters and
also other possible opportunities for funding in the future. Such a
template could be actually a nice contribution of the CNSIG.
For this, I will be available the week of the battle of the mesh, May
7-13 (from May 7-9 I will be at home on my computer) and in Berlin we
could perhaps discuss some of the points with the CNSIGers
face-to-face.
Here is a pad to organize the work :-)
https://pad.codigosur.org/CNSIG_beyond-the-net
<https://pad.codigosur.org/CNSIG_beyond-the-net>
Perhaps to add on the top of the pad the names of those interested and
create a smaller e-mail list to coordinate?
Best,
Panos.
On 13.04.2018 04:06, Nicolas Pace wrote:
Hi Fellows,
The BeyondTheNet Medium and Large Projects call is open till
2018-05-15
, so we have aproximately one month to present
proposals, both
at the
local chapters and as a SIG:
https://internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/medium-large-scale-projects/
<https://internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/medium-large-scale-projects/>
25 projects out of ~200 projects were accepted last year based on
estimations done using the data here:
https://www.internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/grants/
<https://www.internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/grants/>
And of those, 7 were about CN related topics.
Access and Development is one of the key areas for this call,
and this
makes projects associated with Community Networks
of special
interest,
and of course the other key areas: Standards,
Policy and Enabling
sustainable development.
Discussing with NicoE we see that this a big opportunity for us as
Group of CNs speaking by themselves:
* a chance for all of us to get an important push by this fund
* an opportunity for the CNSIG to show that we represent the
interests
of the Communities, and to help the Local
Chapters acknowledge and
validate this representation
* the chance to coordinate efforts among ourselves to augment our
chance to do impact
* a way for us to speak strongly about what are our needs and
our way
of dealing with them
For that, would like to propose:
* let each other know who wants to participate and on what you
might be
interested in participating
* if possible, work together on common areas
* split projects in network deployment kickstart/scaling and local
capacity building projects (more tightly coupled to a Chapter), and
technology development projects (more associated to a collective
benefit, would say to the whole SIG).
* do endorcement letters for all projects that came from members
of the
cnsig
* announce in the cnsig.info <http://cnsig.info> page the
projects that
have been submitted
What do you think?
Also, would like to send this Questions to ask to Beyond The Net
fund
(Ilda I guesS):
* Is there a minimum or maximum amount of projects going to be
approved
for each chapter/SIG? This will allow us to
strategize properly
how to
ask for the funds.
* Is there a minimum or maximum amount of projects going to be
approved
for each Focus Area (CN, Standards, Policy,
Sustainability) per
Chapter/SIG? That will allow us to push the idea that CNSIG endorsed
projects should be approved.
* Can global actors work together in proposals and present them in
different regions for applying them in their respective regions?
That
will allow us to write proposals together instead
of
individually, and
do a collective plan that has local
implementation.
Regards,
FYI The list of presented projects, and rejection/approval, can
be seen
here:
https://www.internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/grants/applications/
<https://www.internetsociety.org/beyond-the-net/grants/applications/>
Apparently only June-2017 were loaded there.
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