[Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections

[Boubakar Barry]

Please start a new thread if you want to discuss this further.

This one is not about analysis of travel costs and meeting registration
fees.

Boubakar


On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Andrew Alston <
Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:

> Actually Badru – it’s not.
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> 171 trips taken to the end of Q3 –
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> 62 Staff trips – excluding the 24 staff flown to AIS – totalling 86 trips.
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> Average cost of a trip by the financials in Q3 - $2049.50 per trip – or
> $176,247 in staff trips excluding board alone.  In total we had spent
> $350,504 on travel by the end of Q3 – considering AFRINIC’s current member
> base that equates to (roughly):
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> $117.50 per Member or to put that another way:
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> 8.3% of an extra small LIR’s annual fees
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> 5.3% of a very small LIR’s annual fees
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> 1.8% of a small members fees
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> And so it goes on – but those three categories make up the vast majority
> of AFRINIC members in terms of numbers.
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> By the time the year came to a close – those percentages had changed –
> with the average rough travel cost totalling roughly $350 per member, which
> again, using the small members where the base actually sits equates to:
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> 25% of an extra small members fees
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> 16% of a very small members fees
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> 5.5% of a small members fees
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> And in total – the travel expenses of AFRINIC racked up 10.7% of the total
> expenses – and anyone who knows anything about business should know –
> percentages like this – are not insignificant numbers.
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> Andrew
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> *From:* Badru Ntege [mailto:badru.ntege at nftconsult.com]
> *Sent:* 18 May 2018 12:41
> *To:* Ben Roberts <Ben.Roberts at liquidtelecom.com>
> *Cc:* General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>;
> AfriNIC Discuss <members-discuss at afrinic.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for
> Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 18 May 2018, at 12:10, Ben Roberts <Ben.Roberts at liquidtelecom.com>
> wrote:
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> Noah,
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> Yes one of the ways that Afrinic wastes lots of money flying people
> around. This contributes to why our fees are so high compared to other RIRs
> we are in.
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> Sorry to get personal but for someone of your experience and looking at
> the financials over the last few years taunting the above line is pure
> misinformation.
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> Secondly a company of your size what you pay AFRINIC is probably a
> fraction of someone’s salary.
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> Fees are based on your consumption if your business is growing and you
> need more resources you not only make a justification to AFRINIC but also
> to the Business.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 18 May 2018, at 09:41, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Ben Roberts <
> Ben.Roberts at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:
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> All,
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> The election was run and winner declared. Majority of votes cast to have
> none of the candidates join the board.
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> So its pointless to have a nomcom in other-words and therefore AfriNIC
> will be wasting members money to conduct elections which involves
> facilitating members of nomcom to fly to meetings to conduct elections
> where no candidate is elected.
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> Come on folks...
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> Noah
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