[Community-Discuss] [AFRINIC-Announce] AFRINIC Annual Financial Statements 2016

Wed Jun 7 15:52:42 UTC 2017

+1 Ali

Questions still have to be asked and answers have to be given.

Noah

On 7 Jun 2017 6:09 p.m., "Ali Hussein" <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Noah
>
> We are saying the same thing.
>
> Mine is to just remind us of the slippery slop of engaging the Chair of
> the Board in operational matters.
>
> I've also said that there may be a flaw (key word being 'may') in the way
> executive responds to queries.
>
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 7 Jun 2017, at 5:33 PM, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>
> Hi Hussein
>
> The Financial Statement is public and am not not sure if you spent time to
> read through it.
>
> The questions that the membership/community have asked here are based on
> the same Financial Statement that was publicly published.
>
> This same financial statement has to go through board approval and the
> board before approval shares this information with the public and
> membership for transparency and the questions that are raised from the
>  membership/community are as result of what has been read and scrutinized
> either on the mailing list or the public AGMM meeting like the one we had
> in Nairobi when the board and the entire membership/community went through
> this financials.
>
> What is wrong with that.?
>
> Noah
>
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>>
>> Allow me to interject.
>>
>> We are creating a dangerous precedence of engaging the Afrinic Board on
>> operational matters. There must be a clear separation of Executive roles
>> and Board roles. This is simply good corporate governance. It's also
>> important to protect the board from claims of interference in day to day
>> running of the Organisation.
>>
>> Having said that I concur with members concerns about Business
>> Continuity. Towards that I propose that appropriate members of respective
>> departments at Afrinic be empowered to respond to respective queries
>> pertaining to the operations of the organization.
>>
>> *Ali Hussein*
>> *Principal*
>> *Hussein & Associates*
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>> "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a
>> habit."  ~ Aristotle
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 7 Jun 2017, at 4:43 PM, Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Daniel,
>>
>> My apologies, I thought I had responded to your request, but alas I did
>> not. I am truly sorry.  Here goes ...
>>
>> 1. Members who did not settle their bills as at Q1 March of each year.
>>
>>         2014 - 34%
>>
>>         2015 - 25%
>>
>>         2016 - 20%
>>
>>         2017 - 16%
>>
>> 2. Revenue from Late penalties
>>
>>         2014 - $98,329     [352 members]    3% of Total Revenue.
>>
>>         2015 - $119,395   [215 members]    3% of Total Revenue
>>
>>         2016 - $165,193  [340 members]     3% of Total Revenue
>>
>>         2017 - $170,000  [372 members]     4% of Total revenue
>>
>> 3. Analyses of unpaid as at Q1 March 2017
>>
>>         Education & Research Institutions - 4%
>>
>>         Government and Government Agencies - 5%
>>
>>         Other Resource Members - 91%
>>
>> So, From 34% default in 2014, we are now down to 16% default in 2017.
>>
>> I hope the above answers your questions.
>>
>> Kind regards ...
>>
>> Sunday Folayan.
>>
>> Chair, AFRINIC Board.
>>
>> On 07/06/2017 14:10, Mwanguhya Daniel Murungi wrote:
>>
>> Dear Chair,
>>
>> Polite reminder. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 2017-05-31 13:32, Mwanguhya Daniel Murungi wrote:
>> > Dear Chair,
>> >
>> > Hope all is well with you and the rest of the team. I skimmed through
>> > the 2016 financial statement and I see that from the revenue
>> > collected, there is no clear indication regarding the penalties
>> > AFRINIC charges members.
>> >
>> > Can the total amount of penalty fees for the financial year 2016 be
>> > published as well?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
>> > On 2017-05-26 08:39, Badru Ntege wrote:
>> >>> 2017-05-25 8:13 GMT+00:00 Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at skannet.com> <sfolayan at skannet.com>:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Mzee Noah,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks for your wishes.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Do not confuse the rights to see, discuss and query.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Because we are transparent and a public institution, the public
>> >>>> has the right to see, the public has the right to discuss.
>> >>
>> >> I'm I reading this wrong or does it say the public does not have the
>> >> right to query ??
>> >>
>> >>>> Members however have the right to query any details in the
>> >>>> Financials.
>> >>
>> >> Interesting boundaries being set here.
>> >>
>> >> I really like the concept of Bottom up processes and governance but
>> >> maybe needs to be updated
>> >>
>> >>>>
>> >>
>> >> BN.
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