<div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>I was very pleasantly surprised to see the "Keep the Internet Strong" (KtIS) campaign that appeared to have been launched at the ISOC@ICANN meeting last Tuesday night.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Glenn and I were extremely impressed by the design of the cards and the clarity of the branding, I believe I expressed that sentiment at the meeting, too. In fact, we collected all the postcards that were left behind after the meeting was over. (Hotel staff were just going to throw them out,)</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are extremely appreciative of the effort, and congratulate all those within ISOC who envisioned and designed this theme.</div><div><br></div><div>My question here, as an ISOC leadership newbie, is this: What co-ordination exists, if any, between chapters and ISOC HQ, when a campaign like this is launched. This campaign offers an opportunity well beyond the printing of some postcards.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In KtIS, I see a message that is strong, clear, and plainly expressed. The design of the logo and cards, along with the clarity of the theme itself, is far better than I have seen of anything of this kind, in years. I see here a chance to build the profile of both ISOC worldwide as well as its chapters within their respective geographies.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To this end, the Canada Chapter has requested high-resolution editable files of the artwork used in the KtIS postcard. We are looking to produce a "Canadianized" version of the postcard, one that maintains the strong artwork untouched on one side, while describing the issues in a local context and providing a localized call to action. We may even use the theme in banners and posters. This would be usable not only for advocacy, but for even more for awareness and outreach. Our goal is to have the public identify with ISOC globally, and our chapter locally, as a champion of keeping the Internet open, accessible and innovative.</div>
<div><br></div><div>(We will also be working to create new materials that attempt to explain the issues behind the campaign in simple language. While the materials on <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/keep-internet-strong">the campaign's landing page</a> are helpful, they are written in language that most Canadian Internet end-users will not understand. ("Keep the Internet Strong" is clear and easily understandable, even by a lay audience; "Internet Collaborative Stewardship Framework" is surely not that at all).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ultimately, I am also encouraging, in the interest of assisting chapters to spread this advocacy and outreach message worldwide, that ISOC would also assist in translation of the KtIS campaign into multiple languages</div>
<div><br></div><div>This campaign offers an opportunity for ISOC -- and its chapters -- to raise stature in a manner that can greatly benefit our shared aims, increasing membership and the stature of us in the ISOC community involved in local policy engagement. The Canada Chapter will be doing what we can to use this theme to increase our public awareness locally; I would hope that ISOC HQ and other chapters may also be interested.</div>
<div><div><br></div>-- <br><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch</div><div style="text-align:left">Toronto Canada</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Em: evan at telly dot org</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">
Tw: el56</div></div></blockquote>
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