[Chapter-delegates] FW: [ISOC-members-announce] New survey: ISOC Goals

[David McAuley]

Dear Chapter Delegates:

I am forwarding a copy of mail that went out to all members at the end of
last week - it regards an extremely important opportunity to help shape
ISOC's large, defining goals over the next three to five years. 

Please make sure your members see this note and urge them to get involved.
Complete the survey, organize discussion groups to help fuel creativity, or
whatever you think might help gather the fruits of the large talent pool we
have among our members. 

This is not only an exciting opportunity but a very important one as well.
Let us know what you think.

Thank you and best wishes,
David

David McAuley
Membership Director
Internet Society
703-326-9880, ext 104
703-963-5887 (mobile)
mcauley at isoc.org


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Subject: [ISOC-members-announce] New survey: ISOC Goals

Dear Members:

We are asking you to participate in an important survey at:

http://geneva.isoc.org/surveys/index.php?sid=8

In the past year you have seen the development, with your input, of a
project funding program, a WSIS Ambassador program, and some additional
communications tools - all being done with a view to better working
together and enhancing ISOC's reach and effectiveness within the
Internet community.

With our new Strategic Operating Plan in place (see:
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/SOP.pdf) we are now preparing plans for the
year 2006 and beyond. As we do so we are looking to build on this
momentum toward a more effective and recognized ISOC. To that end, we
are considering goals to pursue; specifically we are considering ways to
identify that one, or at most two, very large and distinctive goal(s)
that will underlie ISOC's pursuits over the next three to five years. We
are thinking big - very big - goal(s). It/they must be clear, ambitious,
consistent with ISOC's mission and goals, energizing, distinctive, worth
not only doing but worth fighting for in an environment where many ideas
compete for attention. We want a large goal which fairly quickly over
time, when thought of, immediately brings ISOC to mind.

And it/they must be measurably realistic - we must know if we are making
progress and we must know when/if we achieve it/them.

You are an integral part of ISOC - what do you think? We want to
consider ideas of all stripes and we want to have them considered in
time to start executing towards this goal(s) in the new year. To that
end we must move quickly and ask for your participation in this survey
not later than FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH.

Here are three categories (with some rough notes under each) which we
feel represent broadly-defined areas in which we might discover
important, "defining" goals for ISOC. The name of each category
deliberately combines two ideas that belong together - for example, the
term "usability and accessibility" is an important compound concept,
quite different from either "usability" or "accessibility" alone. Please
look them over and then respond to the questions below. In addition, we
have a comment field below -
tell us more: do you have other ideas or comments to contribute.

1. Usability and Accessibility Category

"Everyone can use the Internet in a way that is useful to them." (This
roughly expresses the meta-goal of "building a better Internet.")

"Everyone can use a trusted and safe Internet that is accessible to
people of all abilities, in many different languages, and appropriate to
many different cultures and societies."

The potentially distinguishable elements of the second statement are:

- Trusted and safe
- Accessible... (in a connected-to-the-Internet sense)
- ...to people of all abilities (rich/poor, physical disabilities)
- ...in many different languages (Internationalization)
- ...appropriate to many different cultures and societies
(native-language content, locally relevant models of Internet use)

2. Information and People Category

"Cosmic goal": total interconnection of information and people in all
places.

United Communities of the Internet; richly diverse community of people
concerned with (and competent to deal constructively with) a wide
variety of issues that arise from a world that includes the Internet;
"we are the Internet Society that enables and sustains the Internet
Community."

Inject technical perspective and knowledge into policy/society debates,
and vice versa.

Internet University (or Internet Society Institute); focal point for
Internet studies (academic research) and information about the Internet.

3. Conservancy and Stewardship Category

"Keeper of the commons" (stewardship): preserve the qualities of the
commons that make it valuable to everyone who uses it.

Uphold and defend the values of an "open and universally accessible
platform for innovation, creativity, and economic and social
opportunity" (conservancy): protect the Internet ecosystem. "We do
things for the good of the Internet."

Please give us your feedback on these ideas by completing the survey
here:

http://geneva.isoc.org/surveys/index.php?sid=8

Thank you.

David McAuley
Membership Director
Internet Society


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