<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">Dear Alejandro, dear colleagues, (questions and answers also posted in Connect)</span></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">your first question is very good as it relates directly with the role that a Board of Trustee member elected by chapters should have, which is in my opinion a frequent and relevant communication with all chapters and members.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">In my case, haven being elected by the chapters as member of the Chapter Adivsor Committee, has given me a broad perspective of the challenges that all chapters are facing and gave me the opportunity to find new ways of dialogue and involvement that may lead to concrete solutions to these challenges.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">As ISOC Argentina president and board member of our chapter, I am in permanent contact with our almost 900 members and I am also in frequent contact with colleagues from other chapters in the region and the world, mainly due to my academic activities.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">As an example, last week in the South School on Internet Governance in Washington DC, where I have the role of academic director, the following chapter´s representatives were specially invited to this activity: Washington DC, North Carolina, Canada, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, República Dominicana, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Haiti, El Salvador, Peru, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Venezuela, New York.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">I will continue with these activities and I plan to:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">- keep on with my relation with chapters and enhance it with a wide global perspective</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">- organize monthly regional calls to recieve concerns from chapters and to give feedback about BoT activities</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">- use an open online platform that should be available for all members, in order to recieve comments and questions and where I can also give my feedback</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">The second one about commitment and limitations<span style="line-height:22.8571px"> is another relevant question.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">If I am elected as Board of Trustee member by chapters, my commitment will be with the chapters and my decisions will be guided by the interests and needs that chapters will express in the fluent dialogue that I plan to have with all of them.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">None of my activities will reduce or limit in any way my independence and capacity to "hear the chapter´s voices".</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">Best regards</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px">Olga</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:22.8571px"><br></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-03-21 15:11 GMT-03:00 Alejandro Pisanty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apisanty@gmail.com" target="_blank">apisanty@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hans-Peter,<div><br></div><div>it's great to see a message from a Chapter-elected Board of Trustees, as we are about to elect the next one to go and hide away for three years (I do miss the time when you took part in discussions.) </div><div><br></div><div>The links you have sent are fine except... they do not lead in any way to the candidates discussion forum. May I ask that you resend the message with that link included? My chapter has asked me to ask some questions to the candidates.</div><div><br></div><div>For all others, in case you are curious, at least two of this questions are:</div><div><br></div><div>1. what commitments do you make to continue in contact with Chapters and members in order to feed your positions as a Trustee, in case you are elected?</div><div><br></div><div>2. what commitments to other parties do you have that could reduce your independence and ability to make decisions in general, and in particular listening to the Chapters' voices? One of you is an official governmental representative in Internet governance matters so you are not free to decide your positions and in fact have acted in the past against community-wide decisions in order to comply with your government's policy - and you continue to hold that position. What about the other two candidates, what can you tell us about ccTLD management, consulting, business etc.?</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Alejandro Pisanty</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Alejandro Pisanty</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Hans Peter Dittler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dittler@braintec-consult.de" target="_blank">dittler@braintec-consult.de</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div lang="DE" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p><span lang="EN-US">Dear Chapter Leader,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">The 2016 ISOC Board of Trustees elections have begun! <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Electronic ballots were emailed today to all voting delegates. They will have until Wednesday, 20 April at 15:00 UTC to cast their ballots. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">In this year’s election cycle, Chapters are asked to elect one Trustee to the Board. So voting delegates may vote for only one of the candidates on the Chapters ballot. All new Trustees will serve three-year terms commencing in June.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Additional details on the elections, as well as information on all of the candidates can be found here:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/trustees" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.internetsociety.org/trustees</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">In order to encourage dialogue and participation by voting representatives and all Chapter leaders, the Elections Committee is again providing an online Candidate Forum on Connect. If you did not receive a link to join the Candidate Forum or if you cannot access the forum on Connect please contact me.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the candidates and engage with your Chapter’s voting delegate on the choices this election presents. If you do not know who the voting delegate is for your Chapter, do not hesitate to contact Joyce Dogniez, ISOC Director of Chapters (</span><a href="mailto:dogniez@isoc.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">dogniez@isoc.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US">).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Hans Peter Dittler<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">2016 Elections Committee Chair<u></u><u></u></span></p><p>Internet Society<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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