[OLPC-Philippines] Apologies for errors

Sat Jul 18 01:58:20 EDT 2009

Hi Ray,

What is it with my continued errors in naming your college? First I added an "s" to college and now added an "n" to Asia. 

You are correct we officially do not have an OLPC program as yet. But this is something we have already agreed in principle to work as an objective and which we will  formalise through an MOU once the foundation has registered. 

I am also sorry if I upgraded your title from contact person to official OLPC coordinator for APC in formalising this relationship. What matters more to me is your support as well as for APC for the OLPC program.

Thanks.

Charles

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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:20:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Charles Chen <ideasman88 at yahoo.com.au>
Subject: [OLPC-Philippines] OLPC Foundation
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Hi Mel,

Thank you for sharing with us your conversations with OLE Nepal's Rabi Karmacharya on our organising efforts for the OLPC foundation in the Philippines. 

While I take on board what you shared with us, I am also guided with the need to lead and stay focus on the task on hand. Being an ex-banker my motivations on starting the OLPC foundation is to help raise the needed financial resources for the OLPC deployment in the Philippines. While I have a strong interest in IT, I will have still a steep learning curve before I can contribute to any discussions here in this area. But if we talk about budgets, fund raising and managing the implementation of a pilot project I can be of value to the discussion.

On our last get together, Naz Nazareno impressed on me, which has already confirmed by the reports on the various OLPC deployments done in other countries, is the need to focus on the content we will use for our program. I am just waiting for the completion of the corporate registration of the foundation after which we will forge with a number of MOUs with a number of educational institutions partly for this reason. First among them is with the Asian Pacific College of which our member Ray Baquirin has been given the honor of being their official OLPC program coordinator. Second will be with De La Salle University with Solomon See whom Naz Nazareno also introduced to the group. Let's hope John Imbong from Ateneo can help arranging the same similar arrangement with his school and I will try to do the same with Don Bosco. Hopefully, with Ray at APC taking the lead among the 4 institutions, we will have sufficient resources to develop our own local content.

But our immediate need continues to be having the financial resources to do a school pilot. This pilot no matter how simple and budget conscious we are will cost money. So to cut the story short, the foundation will seek to fund raise the needed resources for the pilot as well as providing admin support to our program. We need a modest office to conduct our activities. 

At the same time, we need to be careful in managing our affairs to ensure we have the needed governance framework in dealing with the public, donors and our member volunteers. I want to avoid any perception that I or any representative have a material benefit from the foundation.

I will share with you a link to the Australian Institute of Company Directors which I will use as a resource base in guiding the future conduct of the foundation. There is also a similar institution based in the Philippines headed by former Finance Secretary Jess Estanislao. But the best guidance will continue to be the feedback (hopefully constructive) of all the volunteer members that will help me ensure we are acting properly in our actions and conduct.

http://www.companydirectors.com.au/default.htm

Thanks.

Charles

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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:13:05 -0400
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Thanks Mel and Rabi...this is a great information for all who are formally
setting up grassroots initiatives...we'll definitely include this in
eKindling.org ....blogs and can we post this to OLPC wiki as? grassroots
information ?

Cheers,
~mafe

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:

> We've discussed learning from other deployments and asking them about
> the models they've employed - so here are notes from a conversation with
> OLE Nepal's Rabi Karmacharya over falafel the other day. Rabi, hopefully
> I haven't mangled things too badly. ;) Comments and suggestions welcome.
> (Words in parentheses are mine.)
>
> I'd like to publish these in a better forum than the archives of a
> mailing list. Any suggestions? (Rabi, is any of this useful for the OLE
> Learning Guide?)
>
> --Mel
>
> ----
>
> The most important thing is a good team. We have strong players here:
> people who have been in the classroom, people who understand how to
> build and run organizations, people with the ability to create and
> support technologies with open-source development processes, people who
> can quietly move around and keep us together as a community that listens
> and learns from each other. And all of us are dedicated towards
> improving education in the Philippines. So we already have the biggest
> thing settled.
>
> We do need to have a legal entity to give us existence in the eyes of
> the Filipino government, donors, and the like. (Having an organization
> should not be a way to exclude contributors or apportion power - it is
> so we have these structures to serve the the contributor community at
> the heart of what we do, the people on the ground who Get Things Done.
> And that community of volunteers needs to be as open and inclusive as
> possible.)
>
> As a legal entity, we are required to have a board of directors. Rabi
> suggested that we have a board of directors, a management team, and an
> advisory board.
>
> The board of directors is a legal requirement. These people are:
>
> * Givers of advice
> * Filipino
> * Legally liable for the organization
> * Do not draw salary
> * Not involved in day-to-day operations
> * Deliberately chosen to span a wide range of professions - law,
> banking, medicine, government, education, engineering, anything else we
> might imagine needing advice on.
> * Respected people who give the organization credibility and help
> promote the project, as they have access to people we will typically not
> have access to.
>
> The management team is the team involved in daily operations. These are
> professionals in their field working for the organization in their
> professional capacity. They are the core execution body and the ultimate
> decision-makers (when the community cannot reach consensus). The
> management team reports to the Board of Directors.
>
> The advisory board is similar to the Board of Directors, except:
>
> * They have no legal liability
> * They do not make decisions
>
> ...and thus have less of a time commitment than members of the Board of
> Directors. A distribution across professions is less important; this
> board should have pepole who have been in the education field, former
> government officials, etc. They can also be international figures,
> unlike members of the Board of Directors who must be Filipino. Their
> role is to provide the management team with advice, so they are
> resources for the management team to draw upon but the management team
> does not report to them.
>
> There are several things we should be considering at this point (as we
> continue to move our projects forward):
>
> * (How do we decide upon - appoint, elect, or invite - the management
> team and the two boards?)
> * How do we keep a low-key PR presence to allow us to focus on our work,
> yet document well and publicly enough that the right people get credit
> for the right work, and what we do is visible to others who would like
> to learn to do the same?
> * What is our exit strategy - what goal(s) are we aiming to hit at what
> time(s)?
>
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:02:20 +0800 (PHT)
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Hi, Charles,

----- Charles Chen <ideasman88 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>I am just waiting for the completion of the corporate registration of the foundation after which we will forge with a number of MOUs with a number of educational institutions partly for this reason. First among them is with the Asian Pacific College of which our member Ray Baquirin has been given the honor of being their official OLPC program coordinator.

A couple of corrections: (1) we are Asia Pacific College, and (2) we do not yet have an official OLPC program, so I am not the official OLPC coordinator.  I am merely acting as the contact person for APC.

Servus,

Ray

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