[rpd] IOF

[Arnaud AMELINA]

+1 Dear Ben

Regards

Le mer. 4 mars 2020 à 16:19, Benjamin Eshun <benjamin.eshun at gmail.com> a
écrit :


> 1- OIF has been a supporter of Afrinic  since day0,  even when some were

> calling  Afrinic "vaporware"

>

>  https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/meetings/reports/afrinic1.pdf

>

>

> https://afrinic.net/fr/gouvernance/conseil-administration/reunions-conseil-administration/reunions-conseil-administration-2004

>

> https://afrinic.net/ast/pdf/afrinic-10years-ab-sept-2015.pdf

>

>

> 2-OIF  has never been a resource member but an associate member

>

> There is no personal or direct interest in policies adopted through PDP

> for OIF. There is no conflict of interest and therefore no risk with  OIF

> fellowship.

>

> 3- until the agreement between Afrinic and OIF fellowship was revoked,

> AFRINIC organised logistics  for OIF  fellows. AFRINIC can confirm that

> fellows never signed any contract, they were not provided any policy briefs

> documents and were not rewarded financially per performance

>

> OIF = Organisation  Internationale de la Francophonie.

>  https://www.francophonie.org/

> Want to know what OIF does in relation to ICT:

> https://www.francophonie.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/rapport-2018-etat-francophonie-numerique.pdf

>

>  Please let’s focus on resolving the issues on the table instead of

> dragging others to try to cover the mess.

>

> regards,

>

> Benjamin

>

>

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:43 PM Taiwo Oyewande <taiwo.oyewande88 at gmail.com>

> wrote:

>

>>

>> If we want to talk about organisations being partial then let us talk

>> about partiality in all its aspects and by including all the parties

>> involved and not focus on one party.

>>

>> As I have stated severally, there is absolutely nothing wrong with an

>> organization sponsoring specific people they think are the best to

>> represent their interests. This is what fellowships are for in the first

>> place, Look it up.. This is how everything works in the world,

>> regardless of the field. partiality is an essential part of fellowships,

>> whether it’s direct or indirect.

>>

>> Now that we cleared that out for probably the hundredth time, let us take

>> the IOF as an example of many. Let me quote from the IOF website : “IOF

>> organises political activities and actions of multilateral cooperation that

>> benefit French-speaking populations.” The organization is literally letting

>> you know that they only spend money on a specific small group of people

>> that benefits another small group. We are talking about Africans

>> discriminating Africans, their own people. And this is not yet the funny

>> part because what’s really laughable is that the IOF is only sponsoring

>> Africans based on a spoken language that is not originally theirs in the

>> first place and discriminates against people of other languages. That is

>> the bigger picture my friends. So let’s be real for a second and ask

>> ourselves who is really working against the African Community and

>> dividing the unity as seen in recent weeks.

>>

>> I would really understand if this whole matter started as an innocent

>> question from someone from the community that is trying to have answers to

>> his questions or that simply doesn’t agree with something, but people that

>> started this have obviously personal interests and motives that do not

>> represent the African community as a whole but rather their own as

>> individuals or groups. And we are sick and tired of us Africans being

>> played like that. Let’s focus on what really matters to the community

>> because there is definitely a lot we can be productive about and help our

>> dear continent that is suffering.

>>

>>

>> Kind regards

>> Taiwo

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