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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Actually Badru – it’s not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">171 trips taken to the end of Q3 –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">62 Staff trips – excluding the 24 staff flown to AIS – totalling 86 trips.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">$117.50 per Member or to put that another way:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">8.3% of an extra small LIR’s annual fees
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">5.3% of a very small LIR’s annual fees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">1.8% of a small members fees
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And so it goes on – but those three categories make up the vast majority of AFRINIC members in terms of numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">25% of an extra small members fees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">16% of a very small members fees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">5.5% of a small members fees
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Badru Ntege [mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 18 May 2018 12:41<br>
<b>To:</b> Ben Roberts <Ben.Roberts@liquidtelecom.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss@afrinic.net>; AfriNIC Discuss <members-discuss@afrinic.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Faulty result for Western Africa in AfriNIC AGMM Elections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p>
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On 18 May 2018, at 12:10, Ben Roberts <<a href="mailto:Ben.Roberts@liquidtelecom.com">Ben.Roberts@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Secondly a company of your size what you pay AFRINIC is probably a fraction of someone’s salary. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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On 18 May 2018, at 09:41, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Ben Roberts <<a href="mailto:Ben.Roberts@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank">Ben.Roberts@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The election was run and winner declared. Majority of votes cast to have none of the candidates join the board. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Come on folks...<o:p></o:p></p>
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