<div dir="ltr">Congratulations to the ISOC Belgium Chapter.<div><br></div><div>Regard</div><div>Pushpa Pathirana</div><div>President (ISOC-Sri Lanka Chapter)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 3:58 PM Frédéric Taes 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="FR-BE" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_6237822656264618547WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello everyone,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Happy to read all those excellent news, with interplanetary Chapter, Qatar, work on Digital Sovereignty, Open Forums on Board Diversity, and more. Great! About Board Diversity, I’m very happy to announce the freshly elected Board for Belgium 2022-2025, with unanimity of votes.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">New Board Members:<u></u><u></u></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="gmail-m_6237822656264618547MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.25pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Afroditi Deilogkou</span></b><span lang="EN-US">, an enthousiastic Social Psychologist we met thanks to Internet Society’s International Youth Ambassador Program;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_6237822656264618547MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.25pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">Nadia Tjahja</span></b><span lang="EN-US">, a P</span><span lang="EN-US">hD Researcher in the Research Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation at the Brussels School of Governance, and coordinator of youth activities at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG).<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Re-elected Board Members:<u></u><u></u></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="gmail-m_6237822656264618547MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.25pt"><span lang="EN-US">Frederic Taes, President;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_6237822656264618547MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.25pt"><span lang="EN-US">Frans Gerbosh, Treasurer;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_6237822656264618547MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.25pt"><span lang="EN-US">Eric Tomson, Secretary;<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_6237822656264618547MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.25pt"><span lang="EN-US">Johannes Schnack.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As reminder, our DPO (Data Protection Officer) is and remains Jérôme de Meeûs d’Argenteuil.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With the rejuvenation process, we started focusing on creating awareness, education, and projects, as organizing events being difficult in Covid times. We’ll launch big marketing campaigns, notably around our <a href="http://www.istrust.org" target="_blank">www.istrust.org</a> community project, open to all chapters of the world.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Inspired by our win to influence a new project of law targeting encryption, <b>our new strategic priority for 2022-2025 is to become the only non-profit organization - group of experts - that parliaments and governmental bodies absolutely need to involve for any new regulation or question linked to the Internet</b>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With the new Board and DPO, we have now an amazing team with complimentary profiles to lead this ambitious program, and we know we can count on support from global ISOC organization to achieve this, so we are all very excited!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I wish a good success to the “Protecting the Internet” event today; our chapter will be present, not myself unfortunately given healthy issues (hard to join from hospital), but I’m expecting to be fully recovered pretty soon, including for my function of ChAC-SC, to reinforce collaboration between chapters and ISOC Board.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Frederic.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tip: read also “Why Internet Society” (<a href="https://www.internetsociety.be/why-internet-society/" target="_blank">https://www.internetsociety.be/why-internet-society/</a>) – your feedback is always welcome.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div>
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