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<div style="direction:ltr">This is a personal project, that's others may or may not choose to contribute to. It is my belief that understanding the factionalism is key to solving it - and I feel this is beneficial, so I shall proceed.</div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">I hope to have others join with me in the effort, but barring that I will still proceed in a solo effort, it will just take longer</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Badru Ntege <badru.ntege@nftconsult.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 14, 2017 11:25:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Andrew Alston<br>
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<div>So I'm curious how this will contribute to the achievement of AfriNICs mission statement. Or even the internet community in general. </div>
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On 14 Jul 2017, at 10:22, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Having read all of this,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I want to analyse every single email across the various lists going back 6 years – in an attempt to identify the factions that exists (as has been stated at all 3 of the last
3 meetings, there is a definite sense of factionalism within the AfriNIC community, and that observation has been made at the microphone by multiple people)</span></p>
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looking at the videos of the PDP meeting and the questions at the microphone and the responses to follow-ups etc, we can then look at potentially finding a way to resolve the divides, potentially even by putting the leaders of said factions in the same room
and getting them to work out the issues, so that we can get back to a point where we are discussing based on policy, based on content, and based on issues that are substantive, rather than from a geographic, linguistic or other perspective.</span></p>
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who would like to assist in this project. This also helps to mitigate the risk that the report that comes out of this will be in any way biased, since those working on it are volunteers from across the continent.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please email me off list if you’d be willing to assist.</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 14 July 2017 10:15<br>
<b>To:</b> Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about transparency</span></p>
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On 13 Jul 2017, at 08:10, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Monaco",serif">Thanks for highlighting the issues bellow. Some board members have claimed championing transparency but I think we all need to have the same definition of the word. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Monaco",serif">However the community is not blind and eventually the truth comes out as we saw in Nairobi where the community spoke resoundingly in both ASO and board elections. </span></p>
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On 5 Jun 2017, at 12:39, Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke"><span style="color:#954F72">ali@hussein.me.ke</span></a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Monaco",serif">1. The last minutes posted were in February this year. I see there was another Board meeting in April which has no minutes posted yet. Can we try and ensure that board minutes are
available for circulation online within 2 weeks of the meeting being held?</span></p>
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critical in an Organisation like Afrinic. To give us a sample of what this may look like please see Safaricom's 2016 Sustainability Report below:-</span></p>
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On 5 Jun 2017, at 11:37 AM, Mark Elkins <<a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za"><span style="color:#954F72">mje@posix.co.za</span></a>> wrote:</span></p>
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Board, achieve this. Transparency though is an ongoing process and its a pity that Andrew was not re-elected to continue assisting in that process.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Monaco",serif">a) Travel in Africa is not cheap. Rather than just a single line for travel, I'd like to see it a bit more broken up though, categorised something like;<br>
i) Training sessions 10, people 20, cost $10,000<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Monaco",serif">b - d) Again, I'd like to see a bit more break down, especially in the case of unaudited organisations. On d), the ASO/NRO fees are proportionally paid by RIRs. AfriNIC
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a Priority Pass card. That privilege should stay to give people access to lounges. I'm happy the CEO flies business (at his discretion). If it was a long flight (ARIN, USA) and overnight and that Board member is the only AfriNIC representative and was presenting
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what was the impact, who received it etc. That in my humble opinion is the best policy. Let us err on the side of too much information as opposed to too little information.</span></p>
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On 5 Jun 2017, at 8:42 AM, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com"><span style="color:#954F72">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</span></a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">So – I want to open a bit of a discussion about transparency, specifically, financial transparency.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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let me start by asking some basic questions that we can use as the starting point for this discussion.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">a.)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How
much detail should the board and AfriNIC be supplying us as regards how the money we pay towards IP resources is spent. Is it sufficient to show an aggregated line item that refers to travel expenses for example, or do we want to see some kind of a breakdown
on what that money is being spent on (considering that travel makes up 10% of the total revenue)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">b.)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How
much detail should the board and AfriNIC be supplying us as members as regards other large scale line items – specifically – we spend hundreds of thousands each year on meeting expenses – should we be asking for a breakdown on what those meeting expenses are
– or are we happy with the organization spending that kind of money under a single large line item.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">c.)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When
AfriNIC is giving money to other organizations for sponsorship – what level of transparency and accountability should be required from those organizations. Is it acceptable that AFRINIC makes a decision to give money to organizations that have no formal incorporation,
no audited financial statements and no board of their own, or should AFRINIC be scrutinizing those that they give money to far more closely, and asking for the same level of transparency from those that they give money to that we require from them.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">d.)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When
AFRINIC is funding organizations such as the ASO/NRO – how much transparency should be supplied back to the members about how that money is being spent and what that funding is actually being used for.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">e.)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When
AFRINIC is funding board travel to meetings around the world – should board members be able to attend these conferences without ever supplying reports about what was accomplished at said meetings and what the purpose of the expenditure was, or are we prepared
to accept that these meetings must be useful without further questions.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Remember, every cent spent by AfriNIC can have an impact on our fees, and impacts the bottom line of the company. Over the last 3 years, we have come a long
way to stabilizing the company and its financial position, but in order to maintain that, we probably need to discuss openly as a community about the level of transparency we want into those finances and then once we as a community come to consensus, we can
request the board supply the transparency we agree is necessary. But let us have an open and cordial discussion so that we get to the right point.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<pre>Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa</pre>
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