Good initiative,<br><br>The Chief Operating Officer emphasised on the same in a meeting with representatives from African Chapters in Addis Ababa last week, we need to find ways of localising ISOCs global strategy.<br><br>
Best Regards<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Eric Burger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eburger@standardstrack.com" target="_blank">eburger@standardstrack.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Veni -<div>I promise that if you keep looking backwards, we will look backwards too, and we can expect that nothing will change.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We respect the past has happened. It sounds like it was not great. I do wish to highlight that all but one person on the board was not here ten years ago and most of the staff started in the past three years.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you will join us in looking forward into the future instead of being stuck in the past, I believe we can make positive changes.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>- Eric</div></font></span><div>
<br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Mar 12, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Veni Markovski <<a href="mailto:veni@veni.com" target="_blank">veni@veni.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dear Eva,<br>
that's a great news - was traveling and couldn't respond promptly.
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As you are aware (but some of the chapters' list are new), the
relations between the chapters, and ISOC HQ need improvement, and
it is encouraging to see that the BoT has come back to the same
point, where it was about 10 years ago. Back then we, the then
Trustees, couldn't find a solution to the gridlock, but your
message definitely sounds encouraging. May be naive, but I trust
your good spirit and desire to really achieve a breakthrough.<br>
<br>
I am sure that all chapters would welcome some positive
developments!<br>
<br>
And if you need any help, please, just ask us.<br>
<br>
Veni<br>
ISOC-Bulgaria <br>
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<div>On 03/08/2013 06:41, Eva Frölich wrote:<br>
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Dear All,<u></u><u></u><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="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. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="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"><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">.<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
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><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="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><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="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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</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Kind regards<br>
Eva Frölich<br>
Chair, ISOC Board of Trustees</span></span></blockquote>
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