<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Eva,<div><br></div><div>May I share this with the ICANN Board?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 8, 2013, at 6:41 AM, Eva Frölich <<a href="mailto:eva@frobbit.se">eva@frobbit.se</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Dear All,<o:p></o:p><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal">The
Board Trustees and the Internet Society executive team held a
joint retreat February to review strategic directions for the
future of the Internet Society. <span style="color:#1F497D">Some
of the </span>issues raised by Chapters over the past years ha<span style="color:#1F497D">ve</span> bearing on the ISOC strategic
directions so therefore we also included these issues in our
discussion. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Internet Society and it's
community work is guided by principles and values striving for
the vision of the "Internet is for Everyone". The mission is
stated on </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:SV"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission">http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">.<br>
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The Trustees would also like to emphazise that we believe that
the Chapters are an integral part of our global organization.
At the same time, the Trustees and staff realize that there
remains work to do to increase engagement with and support for
Chapters. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">With the aim of ensuring that ISOC
and it´s Chapters all have the same understanding and can work
cooperatively together, the Trustees have asked the executive
team to report back to the Trustees on staff´s efforts to
further align ISOC´s and Chapters activities as a basis for
continuing the discussions. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Trustees also concludes that
information need to flow both directions to ensure success for
both Chapters working on local level as well as ISOC working
on a global level. <br>
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Kind regards<br>
Eva Frölich<br>
Chair, ISOC Board of Trustees</span></span><br>
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Eva Frölich
Frobbit AB
Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eva@frobbit.se">eva@frobbit.se</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.frobbit.se/">www.frobbit.se</a>
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