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

[Peter Royce]

Hi Jean Paul,

Here is a link to most of the information that would be of use to you
in making the case that your work is non-profit/charitable.
http://www2.vcn.bc.ca/charitablestatus Unfortunately, Industry Canada
has moved their excellent "Charitable Incorporation Kit" prepared by
Pippa Lawson.

Good luck, Peter

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of NKURUNZIZA Jean
> Paul
> Sent: June 5, 2008 4:31 AM
> To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
> Subject: [UgaBYTES] No good news abour registration process of BCTN : I met
> the Director General this morning !
> Importance: High
>
> 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
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> Général de BYTC B.P 7031 BUJUMBURA BURUNDI
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