[UgaBYTES] No good news abour registration process of BCTN : I met the Director General this morning !

[Michael Gurstein]

Hi Jean Paul,

I'm not sure if it will be of any assistance but the Vancouver (Canada)
Community Network (VCN) (where I'm on the Board) ran into the same problem
about 10 years ago and won a quite famous court case which determined that
VCN was in fact a not-for-profit even though it did charge for some of its
services.

I'll copy this to the current VCN President Jim Sayre (a lawyer) and Peter
Royce (who was VCN co-ordinator at the time) if you have an interest in
getting more information on what happened in the Canadian circumstance.

Best,

MG

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Paul
Sent: June 5, 2008 4:31 AM
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Subject: [UgaBYTES] No good news abour registration process of BCTN : I met
the Director General this morning !
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Hello,

I met this morning the Director General of the Ministry of Interior today
morning. The bad thing is that the Advicer in charge of our file had
attached a very little notice on our file saying that : BCTN is not a non
profit organization. He wrote this because in our text, we described some
services generally offered by telecenter ( Internet access, photocopy,
Library, community radio, ...). As he saw that offered services are not
free, them he argued that BCTN is not non profit. But I explained that the
major role of the network is essentially to support telecenter initiatives
by capacity buildings, lobbying and content for Development, etc... as it is
clearly stated in our objectives. I also explained that low fees are paid to
telecenters for their sustainability issues. At the end, he told me to
contact back the Advicer and explain him. This because the Director General
can't go against technical advices from his colleague. So, we scheduled the
meeting with the Advicer tomorrow as he was not in his office today. It
looks like that we will be obliged to modify our  constitution text and then
begin all the registration process again if the Advicer doesn't understand.

-- 
NKURUNZIZA Jean Paul
Président du Réseau des Télécentres Communautaires  du Burundi Secrétaire
Général de BYTC B.P 7031 BUJUMBURA BURUNDI
Tél: 00257 22 21 96 45
Tél Mob : 00257 76 60 49 46/00257 79 981 459
Fax : 00257 212485 ou 00257 222147
E.Mail : nkurunziza at bytc.bi ou
         jnkurunz at hotmail.com
Site web : http://www.bytc.bi


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