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  • From: Kelsey Wiens <kelseywiens AT gmail.com>
  • To: CC Africa mailing list <ccAfrica AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ccAfrica] Fwd: [cc-affiliates] CC global network strategy meeting - Kill it! - Fix it! - Add it!
  • Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 19:05:20 -0400

Hello CC Africa 

Simeon and I are inspired and excited after a fantastic first day at the CC global strategy meeting. You'll see the day one update below 

We would love to hear your feedback on the post and if you have anything you want us to bring to the meeting tomorrow
 
To facilitate this and to help us all chat more We'll start a CC Africa Whatsapp group 

Please Whatsapp me at +27724385095 and I'll add you to the group 

sawubona

Kelsey & Simeon 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Keller <pk AT kl.nl>
Date: Monday, May 16, 2016
Subject: [cc-affiliates] CC global network strategy meeting - Kill it! - Fix it! - Add it!
To: CC Affiliates <cc-affiliates AT lists.ibiblio.org>


Hi all, 
as you will (hopefully) know we are having the first CC global network strategy meeting in Washington D.C today and tomorrow. This is the first physical meeting of the network strategy group that was formed as a follow up od the discussions that we have had at the last day of last years summit in Seoul. The purpose of this meeting is to stake out a couple of options for the future of CC's global network that we can then investigate further within the strategy group and with the rest of the network. While there will be more comprehensive notes that will be circulated after the meeting we wanted to aslo give a quick informal update on what is being discussed here during he two days. This post is a quick little summary of what we have done today and hopefully someone else will follow up with a summary at the end of tomorrow.

We spend the first half of the day doing a post-it heavy exercise mapping the current state of the affiliate network. Paul S and Kamiel (who are facilitating the meeting) walked us through a series of exercises focussed on identifying things that we know about our network (data - white post its in the picture below). This was followed up by an exercise aimed at identifying frustrations/negative feelings that we have (the red post-its) and another one focussing on positive feelings (the yellow ones). As you can the negative feelings outweighed the positive ones, which is probably recognizable for a most of us (and the reason why we are undertaking this process). We concluded the morning session by two more exercises, the first one focussed on identifying elements of the networks that we want to get rid of, that we would like to improve and that we would like to add (the kill-it, fix-it, add-it on the door). The last exercise collected and contrasted historic goals of the network with future goals (the multi colored post its).
 
We kicked off the afternoon with a session in which we analyzed other network organisations to identify positive and negative traits of their organization models. This included the usual suspects (wikimedia, peer2peer foundation) organisations working on humanitarian en environmental issues and organisations advocating for entirely different causes that have interesting organizational models. 

We concluded the afternoon session with a open discussion in which we tried to better understand why our network seems to be caught up in a "us vs. them dynamic'. This was quite an intense discussion that scratched a number of open wounds (paid vs unpaid work, the inadequacy of our structural instruments (such as MoU and roadmaps) and the role of regional and global coordinators.

While none of the discussion lead to anything very actionable yet (although if i was a betting man i would not bet on a long future life of either the MoU or the roadmaps) we hopefully laid the groundwork for some more results oriented discussions on day two. i think most if not all of us where very happy with the constructive and open nature of the discussions and to discover that there is more that unites us than that divides us (even though the red and the yellow post its might give another impression). so much for now.... 

Paul (on behalf of Alek, Carolina, Claudia ,Claudio, Delia, Scann, Kelsey, Kamil, Mari, Naeema , Paul S, Ryan, Simeon, Sohyuun)






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