<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks Dave,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">On the Chapters' level, there is an important achievement that happened during Kathy's leadership is the approval of the Chapters Advisory Council. So far ChAC is now part of the ISOC structure and the more chapters get their voices heard and discussed in this body, the more influence the ChAC will have on the governance of ISOC. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best for 2018,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nadira Al-Araj</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Dave Burstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com" target="_blank">daveb@dslprime.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Kathy </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I'll pick up anything you send me verbatim.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Folks</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">For <a href="http://newpolicynews.com" target="_blank">newpolicynews.com</a>, I'm writing up Kathy's resignation. I've known her for many years to be very able and a basically decent person, so I have all the color I need. I'll make a point of describing her role in bringing the IGF back from the dead to become a useful place to exchange ideas. </div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I'm writing to the list to ask for comments on Brown's achievements in ISOC. I'm going to include my opinions on how ISOC should be reaching out to the global south and incorporating into ISOC the half of the internet effectively not included. (China is one-third of the net today, by most measures.)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">To balance my article, I'm looking for specific comments about meaningful achievements, particularly about building bridges across the North-South divide. I'll probably include <div style="display:inline">anything you send verbatim.</div></div></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div style="display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div style="display:inline">Do praise her freely. I'm very disappointed in ISOC since 2012 and want to include other opinions. </div></div><div><div style="display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div style="display:inline">Dave</div></div><div class="m_1185227553967804584gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Editor, Fast Net News, Wireless One.news, Net Policy News and DSL Prime<br>Author with Jennie Bourne DSL (Wiley) and Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed (Peachpit)</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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