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Dear Friends and Colleagues,<br>
<br>
I am honoured to have been nominated as a candidate for the Chapter
Advisory Council Steering Committee for a
fourth year running, which might seem long, but time passes ever so
quickly. <br>
<br>
The past years have been very busy indeed and whilst I cannot claim
to have been leading all efforts on the Steering Committee, my main
impact in these years has been the initiative to have IETF
Registration Fee support for Chapters, which has finally been
implemented as an application-based selection of promising
individuals to have their fee waived at a local IETF meeting. This
initiative has been well used in recent IETF meetings and I hope the
Board of Trustees will decide to continue it in future years.<br>
<br>
This continues in the spirit of having Chapters cooperating more
with the IETF, but also with Organisational members, many of which
are also actively involved in IETF.<br>
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This year again, I was immensely impressed with some of the Internet
Society Chapter Community Funding projects that have been proposed
and funded, especially those focussing on both accessibility and
access. The Internet Society has communicated these successes much
better and this has both raised its profile, but also the profile of
the Chapters that were involved. As other organisations shrink their
community budgets by re-aligning their priorities, we need to
continue sustaining these Chapter projects. It is the strength of
our community projects that promotes purpose and dynamism in our
Chapters.<br>
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I am always thrilled to see all of the events that are set-up by
Chapters locally and thanks to the support provided by the Internet
Society, streamed around the world. This is building an amazing
library of topical events that mark the Internet's history. That
said, I still think that we can do better, and expand this to
produce more video content. Like I said last year, the young
generations do not have time to read, but knowledge transfer is
possible these days with a very low cost set-up for video
production, thus in the next year I'd like to have the Internet
Society study what means could be provided to Chapters to enable
them to produce low cost videos and streaming of the content they
produce.<br>
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Finally, the Chapter Advisory Council has now been established for
enough years to see what is working and what is not working. One
thing that has been of concern to me is that to this date, only a
small number of Chapters have fully realised the Channel that they
have towards the ISOC Board of Trustees. I would like to say "wake
up everybody, this is YOUR Chapter Advisory Council" - and to make
more use of it to develop the Internet Society mission. This year
again, we are at a crossroads and the strength of the Internet
Society is its chameleon-like structure where its advice is received
equally well by the Technical community, Civil Society, Governments
and the Private sector - because that's where its own members come
from. It is through communication that we will feel stronger
together. Having noticed that both the Board of Trustees and
Internet Society Staff have passed this fundamental step, it is
about time that Chapters embrace this too.<br>
<br>
My LinkedIn profile explains some of my background: <a
href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ocl999/"
title="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ocl999/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ocl999</a><br>
I am attaching a short bio which is identical to last year, as I
have just carried on the responsibilities I had.<br>
<br>
I am happy answering any questions you might have, on this forum or
to my email below.<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
<br>
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond<br>
ISOC UK England Chair<br>
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