Just great!
Thanks to all who kept on working to this important mark.
Alice.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Anna Stillwell <astillwell(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Wow. Thank you, Lane, for spelling out the difficulty
of making this
happen. It really places this accomplishment in context. It sounds like it
is more than a free knowledge win, it's also a win for Bangladesh civil
society.
Well done all! What an accomplishment. Wow. Congratulations.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Ali is being modest.
Not only is Wikimedia Bangladesh among only the 5% who got NGO
registration, but they are also among the 1% to do it without paying
anyone
a bribe. I have heard that they were asked for
money many times to make
things go more quickly. Perhaps people outside the region do not know,
but
there are a lot of desks that all want to stamp
the registration papers
before giving the final approval. For a foreign-affiliated Internet
technology organization mostly run by younger people who have a
relationship to a major Internet property to be able to get a
registration
without paying any bribe is probably
unprecedented in the history of
South
Asia. Getting a registration is something to be
proud of, but getting it
completely honestly means that a lot of extra work went into the
registration just to keep a good reputation.
I am thrilled with the good example this sets and not only is having the
registration a wonderful thing for the Wikimedia community, but also this
shows an excellent precedent for all Bangladeshi community activists
because they have a bright example in Wikimedia Bangladesh that paying a
bribe is not necessary to get an NGO registration. This is really
something
to publicize, stress, and note as a point of
pride. No one should forget
this as it really takes a lot of sacrifices to do this without bribing
and
in terms of cost, it actually is cheaper to save
time and pay the bribes.
I hope that this encourages other organizations in Bangladesh to also
file
their own NGO paperwork and accomplish whatever
they feel ought to be
done.
Congratulations a thousand times!
yours,
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Tonmoy Khan, 10/06/2014 19:28:
less than 5 applications for registration as societies get
approved out of every 100. We submitted our
application in May 2012
That's heroic, thanks.
Nemo
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