<div dir="auto">It sounds like a great idea that KSA is opening to form an ISOC chapter. Best of luck to the founders, and hope that ISOC has done its due diligence, and they will be good to go!</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 14:50 Shehab A. Karman 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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I think there are only Bahrain from last year and Qatar from two months ago among the chapters of Internet Society GCC. I am not sure if there is another ISOC chapter in the rest of the Gulf countries. Yet forming an ISOC chapter in Saudi Arabia now is enhancing
the Internet Society mission. Later they can start an individual regional Internet Society GCC, apart from the Middle East!</div>
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I guess they should work on forming a working committee in order to must be given the license to start up a new chapter, also must include women and focus on gender diversity.</div>
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At the end I would love to say all thanks to the Founder and spiritual father of ISOC-Yemen Chapter and Member of the Global Internet Society's Board of Trustees, Dr. Walid Alsaqaf, who brought the license to Yemen in August 2013 and made us among the early
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<div>This is amazing news from KSA.</div>
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<div>I reviewed briefly the application but was unable to open the link to the bylaws (got a 404 page unavailable error)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:19 PM Hana Sabbagh via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" target="_blank">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p>Greetings all,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>We have received <span lang="EN-US">an </span>application to form an Internet Society chapter in S<span lang="EN-US">audi Arabia, Middle East
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31 July 2022.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Find attached the application and the list of founding members.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p>Thank you very much in advance for your feedback.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US">Regards<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Hana<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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