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Time comes to renew Chapter Advisory Council Steering Committee for 2023 (in short ChAC-SC).<br />
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Thanks to your support, I’m in ChAC-SC 2022. What a year! Much work, wonderful people and team spirit (Jordi, Agang, Pierre-Jean…), and answering to a need (thank you John More). A challenging year for me, with 3 hospitalisations, a move…. More: the unexpected unavailability of our President caused some ChAC-SC work to stop, as our survey to chapters was never sent. We could do better.<br />
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Key improvement areas:</div>
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<li><strong>Mission and Purpose</strong>: what Board of Trustees (BoT), ISOC staff and chapters are expecting from ChAC and ChAC-SC?</li>
<li><strong>Chapters and Regional representativity</strong>: now only 2/3 of chapters are represented in ChAC, and most of the time only 5 of the 9 ChAC-SC members present in meetings, with Europe/Africa well represented, but others poorly.</li>
<li><strong>Transparency</strong>: what the ChAC-SC is doing or will do?</li>
<li><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Efficiency</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">: complexity is high, with many layers, from vote of chapter representatives to nominate someone, to provide advise to a Steering Committee, itself debating, then send to a Board as « advise »… it’s a heavy process;</span></li>
<li><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Community involvement</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">: too much on the shoulders of a very few people.</span></li>
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<span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">My proposal = CHANGE.</span></div>
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<li><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Clear mission and purpose</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)"> : ask to stakeholders, get community approval, and GO; </span>Jordi and myself put the question to the plenary of November 15th; your input is important;</li>
<li><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">100% representativity</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">: all Chapter Leaders would be ChAC representatives by default;</span></li>
<li><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Leverage on the global community</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)"> of experts and volunteers, in agile mode, with smaller and more frequent community inputs;</span></li>
<li><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Work agile</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)"> (scrum) with sprints (ie monthly objectives), continuous improvement, and ChAC-SC with a more ‘animator’ role.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Consider </span><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Regional meetings</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)"> (ex: Encryption in Spanish, better targeting Latin America);</span></li>
<li><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">With help of ISOC staff, </span><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">publish work to do, in progress and done</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">, visible to whole ChAC community, as a web page portal.</span></li>
<li><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Based on collected needs, </span><strong style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">advise on enablers</strong><span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">. Examples: build a Knowledge Base of internet issues (encryption, net neutrality,…) with link to works from all chapters and global ISOC.</span></li>
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<span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">That’s the main idea: system makes behaviour. If you support this, I’d work with all of you to make it happen. Most important: express your opinion, vote, candidate, volunteer. #oneteam</span><br />
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<span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Best Regards,</span><br />
<span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Frederic Taes,</span><br />
<span style="color:var(--textColor);background-color:var(--backgroundColor)">Candidate ChAC-SC 2023</span></div>
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