Opening an account for NPOC, NCUC and NCSG in Estonia

[Sonigitu Ekpe]

Dear Raoul and All,

Please kindly advise on requirements for all citizens of the World, in
respect to e-residency in Estonia.

If all is okay, I am willing to put forward my name.

Warm regards,

Sonigitu Ekpe

On Sun, 6 Jan 2019, 00:24 Raoul Plommer <plommer at gmail.com wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I've tried unsuccesfully opening an account for NPOC here in Finland and
> what it really comes down to, are the restrictions of having account owners
> that are based in Finland and every time they would be changed, they'd have
> to come over to Finland to do so. The same goes for the NCUC's current
> account.
>
> Now, I think we (me and Tapani) have found a solution to our problems and
> it is such that I will get a e-citizenship in Estonia, register the C's and
> the SG in Estonia and then open the bank account to each of them separately
> in person. We'll probably need another few people to take e-residencies as
> well, to share the responsibility and accountability of said accounts and
> the e-residency costs 100€ per person. https://apply.gov.ee/
>
> None of our SG's organisational structure is officially recognised
> anywhere but inside ICANN - I think we should change that and register in a
> country that is actually a lot more lenient than Finland or USA, for
> example.
>
>
> https://www.estoniancompanyregistration.com/nonprofit-organisation-registration-in-estonia
>
> The most essential difference to most countries is that Estonia allows
> change of authorised users on bank accounts to people with e-residency ID,
> and this change can be done in any consulate of Estonia in the world.
>
> All I would need, is the boat trip to Tallinn and back and one night in a
> local hotel. This would be less than 200€ in total.
>
> 200€ for e-residency for two people, per account, so 600€.
>
> We'd also need to cover the costs of registering our organisations in
> Estonia, which will probably make things easier, and I think all three can
> be registered for less that 200€ in total.
>
> So... We'd need about a thousand euros + 5 people wanting to put their
> names as the account holders. What do you guys think? If we discuss this
> further, I might actually get all the details together by Kobe.
>
> I think it would be crucial to finally get our organisational
> infrastructure together and be able to change people as the account
> holders. Now the situation is really inflexible and reliant on a very few
> people with access to the accounts.
>
> Once we register the organisations as not-for-profits, we could also
> finally get an government ID to start using Google's nonprofit benefits
> which are really quite numerous. Same goes for Dropbox for example, they
> give 30% discount.
>
> -Raoul
>
> P.S. While I was searching, I found this a record of the CSG having a
> nonprofit register in the USA. I found that somewhat surprising.
>
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>
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