<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Dear Chapter Representatives,</span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">With what I have read so far from Olivier's email, he (and many others) deserve the respect to be recognized over the past five years based on how they had tackled their responsibility, as a handful of loyal representatives that worked more like a family than a team. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">We only refer to great minds as "troublemakers"; the people who shape our globe into a village and guide us right into the light when all seems dark. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Olivier is leaving the council with more than a bit of history and challenged us for the future. I hope we can do more by not trying "to get rid of " him, but calling them in dire times to give support. Besides, we will always feel your presence with this golden mail that is touching.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Who deserves accolades? Who deserves the mention? Who deserves the recognition? It's people like you who have led us this far, encouraging us to do more by the hour.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">To all past leadership and ISOC Staffs, thank you and Congratulations as we move into another phase of leadership. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">In the words of Eduardo Diaz, "May you have a peaceful, joyful and Safe Holiday Season and a wonderful New Year".</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Best Wishes,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Adebunmi Adeola Akinbo.</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 6:51 PM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dear all,<br>
<br>
I am delighted that the vote for the amendments to the Chapter
Advisory Council Charter has given approval, to such an extent that
as many as 83 chapters provided their approval. Congratulations to
all.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately for me, after drumming so much support from so many
chapters and encouraging chapters to attend the call, I demonstrated
by ineptitude by wrongly saving the time at which the call was due
to take place and I therefore missed it! <br>
<br>
It is my loss, as I was going to say a few words of thanks on the
call, as this is my last year on the Chapter Advisory Council
Steering Committee. Instead, and sadly having missed the call, I
will write my projected intervention here. The good thing for you is
that here, if you are not interested, you can press the "delete"
button *now*. :-)<br>
<br>
I have had the honour to serve on the Chapter Advisory Council
Steering Committee every year since its inception in 2016, each time
as the representative for Europe, and also as Vice Chair for the
past three years. That is five years with a significant number of
people that I wanted to thank.<br>
<br>
First, I wanted to thank the three Chairs under which I served:<br>
<br>
Avri Doria – New York Chapter - Chair <br>
Richard Hill – Switzerland Chapter – Chair<br>
Eduardo Diaz – Puerto Rico Chapter - Chair <br>
<br>
Without their leadership, the Chapter Advisory Council would not be
where it is today. Even after spending so many years on Internet
Governance issues, I have learned a lot from them and I am grateful
for each of their leadership styles.<br>
<br>
Each year had its own members and I wanted to acknowledge them on
the call. Some have served multiple years but I did not want to make
this too long so I have only listed their first year of attendance.<br>
<br>
2016<br>
Nadira Alaraj – Palestinian Chapter<br>
Babu Ram Aryal – Nepal Chapter<br>
Douglas Onyango – Uganda Chapter<br>
Rudi Vansnick – Belgium Chapter<br>
David Vyorst – US Washington DC Chapter<br>
<br>
2017<br>
Ali Almeshal – Bahrain Chapter<br>
Jahangir Hossain – Bangladesh Dhaka Chapter<br>
Ram Mohan – US Philadelphia Chapter<br>
Janvier Ngoulaye – Cameroon Chapter<br>
Beatriz Rodriguez – Uruguay Chapter<br>
<br>
2018<br>
Satish Babu – India Trivandrum Chapter<br>
Carlos Vera – Ecuador Chapter<br>
Ines Hfaiedh – Tunisia Chapter<br>
Nabil Bukhalid – Lebanon Chapter<br>
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy – India Chennai Chapter<br>
<br>
2019<br>
Elaine Ford – Peru Chapter<br>
Susannah Gray – US San Francisco Bay Area Chapter<br>
Lilian Nalwoga – Uganda Chapter<br>
Amrita Choudhury – India Delhi Chapter<br>
Peter Koch – Germany Chapter<br>
<br>
2020<br>
Jean-Pierre Darrès – Canada Québec Chapter<br>
<br>
A special mention goes to Satish Babu who has assumed the role of
Secretary for several years and to Christine Saegesser, ISOC Staff,
who has done such an excellent job in accompanying the Committee and
in fact the whole Chapter Advisory Council, but also to Joyce
Dogniez, also ISOC Staff, who was the first ISOC Staff to support
the Advisory Council. <br>
<br>
Why list all of the people above? Because 1. they deserve the
recognition and 2. this is a wonderful set of people from all around
the world. As a result, I consider the experience that I have had on
this Steering Committee, to be so enriching culturally, that I would
recommend it to everyone. As the Steering Committee had a call every
month and as it met face to face as many times as possible at IGF
meetings or ICANN meetings, when it could, I consider all of the
above people my friends. Thank you, boys and girls, ladies and
gentlemen, I miss you.<br>
<br>
No round of thanks will be complete without thanking the two
"founding fathers" of the Chapter Advisory Council - Evan Leibovitch
and John More. These two "troublemakers" put together years of
discussions going round in circles, into a Charter and an action
plan that gave rise to the ISOC Chapters Advisory Council. They were
helped by a dozen people, again from around the world, back in 2013
and 2014. As a truly bottom-up, Chapters-led initiative, the whole
history of the Chapters Advisory Council has shown that in five
years, it has been possible for it to establish itself as the
consensus based voice of the Chapters in the Internet Society
structure. The vote today showed that it was also able to improve
itself, and I hope that in the future, it will be possible to
continue to do such improvements - thanks to the renewed support and
involvement of the Chapters taking part in the Council. <br>
<br>
And finally I would like to thank all of you who are involved in
representing your Chapter on the Chapter Advisory Council, who have
renewed their trust in me five times. To be elected to the Steering
Committee is a privilege and I have full confidence that next year's
Steering Committee will bring more successes and achievements to be
proud of, in keeping the dynamism of the Chapters alive.<br>
<br>
In the past weeks, contacting so many Chapters that had not yet
voted, I realised how we are all humans and the current COVID19
pandemic has affected us all greatly. Some of you have caught COVID.
Some of you have had a close family member catching COVID - indeed
some of you have lost a close family member because of COVID. Some
of you have lost their job and some are struggling and need to work
extra hard to make ends meet. Some of you live in a part of the
world where there are serious local political issues that threaten
your daily life. How in the world did you find the time to respond
and to take part in this vote and/or discussions on the Chapter
Advisory Council given the extraordinary challenges you are facing?
I do not know, but I do feel that there should be more recognition
for people like you - and it infuriates me - literally my blood
boils, when I hear ignorant people putting Chapters down. Such
ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.<br>
<br>
I am not going far. I'll still be a Chapter Advisory Council
Delegate for ISOC UK England. If you want to get rid of me, you are
going to have to try harder than that. :-)<br>
<br>
Stay safe, and Best wishes for 2021,<br>
<br>
Olivier<br>
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<div>On 22/12/2020 17:03, Eduardo Diaz via
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">All:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This
is to announce that the amendments to the Chapter Advisory
Council (ChAC) Charter have been approved by 83 chapters
during a ChAC meeting held today, 22 December 2020. The
final tally was 83 in favor and 2 abstentions. The total
number in favor was more than the 2/3 (76 out of 114
Chapters) majority required. You can watch the
proceedings <a href="https://isoc.box.com/s/nxqvw70mohrof3le6r4289lr2my10if1" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">HERE</a> (<a href="https://isoc.box.com/s/nxqvw70mohrof3le6r4289lr2my10if1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://isoc.box.com/s/nxqvw70mohrof3le6r4289lr2my10if1</a>).<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
next step in the process is to send these results to the
ISOC Board of Trustees (BoT) for its final approval.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I
would like to thank the ChAC Steering Committee (ChAC-SC)
members which in unison put a lot of effort behind this. A
token of much appreciation to German Fajardo (Colombia
Chapter), Pierre-Jean Darres (Canada Québec Chapter) and
Nabil Bukhalid (Lebanon Chapter) for the many hours that
they put into preparing the proposed changes. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Finally,
I want to take this opportunity to say goodbye to
everyone. I have chaired the ChAC-SC for the past two
years and it has been a very rewarding experience. Now is
time for others to continue this important work.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">May
you have a peaceful, joyful and safe holiday season and a
wonderful New Year.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Eduardo
Díaz <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Chair<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Chapter
Advisory Council Steering Committee <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ISOC
Puerto Rico</p>
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