<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">Dear Colleagues,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">First of all I wish you and your families are safe and sound in your homes, during this difficult time we are facing. I don't remember any other time in my life in which the humanity was confronted a global crisis like this, in a matter of weeks, and with similar complex realities in all of our regions.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">Today we have the opportunity to verify, the FUNDAMENTAL ROLE THAT INTERNET HAS IN OUR LIVES, but also this critical situations remind us, how important is to achieve the UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY as fast as we can, because as we know, near half of the population is not connected as we are, and that means that several children and also university students, are not able to follow on line classes, several other people are not able to be working from their homes, and many others are completely isolated without any contact with friends and family. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">And together with other important matters, our ISOC Community have a key role to achieve what we have in our vision: "INTERNET FOR EVERYONE" through our common objectives. And this is why I want to be elected as part of the Board of Trustees. And because I strongly believe, we need to strengthen the regional diversity in the BoT, with more trustees coming from countries in the global south, in which we still have a very law Internet penetration, despite the great efforts and work that has been done by all the chapters in these regions.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">As you know there was a specific forum where we, as candidates, received questions and provided our answers. I hope you all had a chance to read the messages in that forum. I am sure you will find great answers and contributions from all the candidates, to whom I have deep respect and recognition, because all of them had a chance to contribute to our ISOC Community in different ways. You may find our profiles in the following link:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2020/nominees/" title="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2020/nominees/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2020/...</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">But if you have not had the chance to know something more about us, I also wanted to contact you through this channel, and if you didn't vote yet, I want to put in your consideration to support me to be one of the two elected candidates for chapter's sits.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">Thank you very much and best regards,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.3px">Roberto Zambrana</span>  <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El jue., 26 mar. 2020 a las 11:44, Eduardo Diaz via Chapter-delegates (<<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear Chapter Delegates,<br> <br>The ISOC Elections Committee sent reminders yesterday to all voting delegates who have not yet cast ballots in the 2020 Internet Society Board of Trustees election. This prompted me to check on the total votes received so far.  <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Until now only 30% of the eligible chapters (37/124) have voted as of 25 March.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">There are a few more days to the Friday, 3 April 2020 at 15h00 UTC deadline for voting so my message to you is to take a pause and reach to your Chapter voting delegate and ask him or her to cast a vote on the choices this election presents. It takes less than a minute to vote. If you do not know who the voting delegate for your Chapter is, do not hesitate to contact Stine Philipsen, who is the ISOC Chapters and Individual Members Coordinator (</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:philipsen@isoc.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">philipsen@isoc.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">). She will be more than happy to help.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Voting is one of the few governance mechanisms that the Chapter Community has in its hands to make sure that a balanced Community perspective is present at the BoT. Engage and use it!<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Stay safe.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Eduardo Díaz<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Chair<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Chapter Advisory Council Steering Committee (ChAC-SC)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">---0—</span></p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><ul><li><span style="font-size:12pt">Refer to this flyer: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://isoc.box.com/s/m033wnegcrpkienwufp83patm13wv8uo" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://isoc.box.com/s/m033wnegcrpkienwufp83patm13wv8uo</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt"> for important information including Chapter candidate bios, how to cast your vote as well as important dates.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt">Information on all the candidates is available online at: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2020/nominees/" target="_blank">https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/2020/nominees/</a></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:12pt">Additional details on the elections can be found here:  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/</span></a></span><br></li></ul></span></div><div></div></div></div></div>
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