[governance] Legal Status of National IGFs

Mon Apr 11 19:38:04 EDT 2016

Hi Arsene
If you do not want litigation upon litigations, please ensure it has
multistakolder buyin, so assembly the stakeholders first and do not rush
into registration.
One of the stakeholder organisation could act as temporary secretariat to
be able to receive support both in kind and otherwise, pending when you
stakeholders are ready to move to the next step.
Remmy

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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Wisdom Donkor <wisdom.dk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Arsane,
>
> As far as i no, it has to be registered as non for profit organisation.
> you will have to make sure that all structures are in place other wise you
> can form it have your event and
> latter register it when you think the structures are in place.
>
> We can talk more on skype if you want detailed explanations.
>
> Cheers
>
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> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Judith Hellerstein <
> judith at jhellerstein.com> wrote:
>
>> HI Arsene,
>>
>> I would suggest a non profit form as you would want to raise funds for it
>> and you would want a legal entity. If a non-profit is too difficult than a
>> for profit would work as long as it is truly multi stakeholder. I believe
>> that the IGF-USA is a non-profit or at least affiliated with a non profit.
>> The Mag should have representative from all sectors.  You also make want to
>> include restrictions on how much companies can donate so that a few
>> companies do not dominate on the funding.
>>
>> Best,
>> Judith
>>
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>> On 4/11/2016 8:37 AM, Arsene TUNGALI (Yahoo) wrote:
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> We are in the process of having our first national IGF in the DRC and we
>> are wondering what legal status to give to it. Is is a non profit? a
>> movement? This question has been asked by our Ministry in charge of ICT to
>> us as the organizing committee.
>>
>> I am writing to inquire which legal status your national initiatives have
>> within your countries. This will help us know how our Secretariat and our
>> own form of MAG will operate. Please do share your experiences.
>>
>> Thanks for your support,
>> Arsene
>>
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