[Chapter-delegates] Minutes – ISOC Chapter meeting – Marrakesh June 2006

[Franck Martin]

Minutes – ISOC Chapter meeting – Marrakesh June 2006

Apologies from Veni and Désirée

*Presentation ISOC Morocco.
Thanks from Morocco Chapter's president, pointing about EGENI Africa
organised with ISOC France.
Address by ISOC Morocco president
First I take this opportunity to welcome you to this ICANN meeting. I
just want to say a few words before I hand the floor to Mr Jamari who
will present our chapter's activities. On a personal level, I would like
to draw your attention to the fact that this meeting has been marked by
the holding of the first EGENI Africa, with the collaboration Sébastien
and the support of ISOC World, without which this event could not have
taken place. We are sorry that Lynn St Amour could not be with us this
week for adverse reasons, we, on the other hand, thank Patrick for
representing ISOC World at the opening ceremony. Lastly, I would like to
introduce my friend and colleague Mr Said and Adberrahim, both members
of the ISOC board who have been most active in the preparation of this
event.

*Presentation ISOC Benin
[In French]
Organised activities towards local authorities for Internet Society
activities
Activities aimed to train technicians mostly
With ISOC France, undertaken activities to train technician, DNS
Organised conferences to promote the use of Internet in the country
They have a newspaper online to inform on activities

*Presentation ISOC Mali
[In French]
exist since 1999
Done training in part of the countries, focused on the use of Internet,
conception of websites, formation to FOSS and on network administrators.
Do a lot of conferences during major events to explain what ISOC Mali is
doing.
They have an office with 10 Machines connected to the Internet. Every
week end volunteers get together to train new members

*Presentation ISOC Tunisia (in formation)
Still in formation, so no activities yet. Thanks to ISOC Morocco and
France to help in participating to EGENI and EGENI Africa and ICANN meeting

*Presentation ISOC France
Organised EGENI Europe, Matthew Shears was present, Paul Towney from
ICANN and a member of European Parliament. Help on this meeting from
Chapters from Africa and participation from Chapter Pacific Islands.
Participated to the organisation of the first EGENI Africa. Next meeting
to be organised in Dakar Sénégal in 2007 (thanks to Nic Sénégal, to
Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications et de la Poste du Sénégal
(ARTP) and Isoc Sénégal).
Publish “Sociétés de l'Information” with help of ISOC World, it is a
free subscription.
Doing an Internet Landscape: France – Europe – World.
Involved in the last two days about a new law on copyrights in France.
Disappointed about French parliament not consulting wide enough.

Presentation ISOC Mexico
Apologies from Alejandro Pisanty and ask for cooperation with another
chapter for joint projects

Presentation ISOC Argentina
Chapter is coming back to life and has recently done a membership drive
which has been successful. Looking forward to new projects in Argentina
with a new team.

Presentation ISOC Catalan
Starting cooperation with other ISOC chapters.
Project on multilingual on the Internet
One of the organisation managing the .CAT

*Presentation PICISOC
Involved in Pacific Islands Digital Strategy and Pacific Islands ICT
Ministerial meeting in Vancouver during ICANN.
MOU signed with APNIC for cooperation
MOU signed with other regional organisation to help in setting
International Open Source Node in the Pacific Islands
PacNOG took place in the region
PacINET Agenda published, meeting end of August in Samoa with Vint Cerf
and Jimmie Rogers, Director of Major regional governmental organisation
as key note speakers.

*Presentation ISOC Luxembourg
New board of Directors. People coming from different horizons. Help to
start working on various subject. Looking on Network Security. Trying to
survey DNS servers in Luxembourg to help in better configure them.
Trying to set up a working group to implement whois for .lu following
regulations of European Union on privacy.
No need to promote the Internet anymore as it is taken into schools

*Presentation ISOC South Africa
Internet is still very high cost. There is not much competition and it
is the most expensive on the continent. The chapter is very busy in
policy development with all the stakeholders.
Most of the activities are on the Mailing list.
Discuss issues coming on the Chapters delegates list within the chapter
policy community
80% of the population has never seen or experienced the Internet.
Adopted the Fiesta model for awareness. It was very very successful, but
the backlash was terrible as people after experiencing Internet, were
left with nothing... Developing a programme for doing several fiesta a
year in the country. Challenge is to show Internet and leave it behind.
Help in conferences to attract International speakers
Receive several request to endorse international conference in South Africa.
See the ISOC as a global society, and has been pleased with the welcome
with other chapters.
Problems to get involved in Internet Standards making, despite some
outreach from IETF. Created a newsletter to outreach with the members
about important standards.


*Presentation from Person from China
Wanting to know about ISOC chapters and to know the community may be in
view to create a chapter.

Presentation from ISOC Sudan
[in Arabic]
Created in 2001. Main idea to bring together all the parties that form
the Internet. Have representatives from Government , private sectors,
telecommunications, universities and representatives from other
institutes. Try to avoid exclusion from any groups to the Internet, and
believe that this structure is very unique in the African as well as the
Arab Regions and that what make it easier to accomplish what had been
accomplished so far.
Responsible to manage the ccTLD .sd
Organise a number of workshops and conferences, last one was organised
with AfriNIC in Khartoum, training on use of Domain Names and Ipv6.
Another workshop was organised with the National Information Centre of
The Ministry Council of the Government of Sudan, concerned also on
OpenSource. The association very active in all the IT meetings in Sudan,
in particular to prepare the WSIS. Organise in committee in the
commercial aspect of e-commerce and e-government. It also aims to
promote the use of Internet in the Country. Plan to set up as many as 50
access points, cyber cafes. Project to provide 100,000 computers to end
users.
Involve in explaining the use of the .sd to the community
Work with local authority in the centre of costs.
All these projects are to promote the use of Internet in Sudan.
Represented in Afrinic and in AFTLD. Present at ICANN with the ccNSO.
Represented in ICANN NomCom.
Part of the president IDN advisory committee, working with Arab
countries in experimenting with domain names.
Performance has been slow but progress steadily.
Association is much open to collaboration with other organisations.

*ISOC Morocco address in Arabic.
Association succeeded to organise something beyond its boundaries. It is
achieving more democracy. Happy to provide the role of outreach between
the Arab world and Africa world.

*Open Discussion
Sebastien: Senegal is proposing to organise the next EGENI Africa.

David: Chapter Informal lunches during ICANN meeting are very
interesting. They should continue. Good interface between chapters and
also with ISOC Staff. Thanks to translation services from Morocco in
Arabic and French.

Alan: These meetings were very much initiated by the chapters.

David: ISOC World will continue to support these meetings.
Membership system: Joined after 4 months it was implemented. The system
is out but has major issues. Peter will review the system to address the
membership system. It has ran a survey with the chapters, and will set
up a committee to review and test the system.
Project funding: 150,000USD has been made available last year for
projects, and this year USD200,000 is available. Chapters have a little
more weight for support than for individual members.
Polish is doing translation of RFC in polish and also on best practices
to translate.
Creating check lists from chapters on any issue and deposit them on the
ISOC website.
Chapter Meetings: Very productive and important for socialisation.
Website: going to do a website overhaul and there will be a chapter area.

Alan: looking on projects that has been funded to find them on the ISOC
website.

Patrick: The board has increased the amount of funding for projects. It
was a success, there were good applications. At the start the board
wanted first to see if there were good projects and found excellent
projects so the board is improving their support. The idea came from
Veni. The funding may increase and will be discussed at the end of the
year for the 2007 budget. Board wants to avoid to fund a project 100% to
help the chapters/members to link with the community for local partners.
With the re-design of the website, may be projects will be better
highlighted. The board agrees there are issues with the ISOC web site
and needs to be re-designed.

Abuelfaid: Funding from ISOC is good, but the chapters can also look for
funding locally. Would like to share management practices, and other
experiences. They have a fund for local projects and ISOC could help in
this area on experience.

David: Sharing is very important and pleased to be at this meeting to
meet chapters.

Khaled: Development Gateway web site,
http://www.developmentgateway.org/, is interesting for project
management as well as http://www.idealist.org and
http://www.takingitglobal.org/

Sebastien: only present here are board members from chapters may be
other board members may be interested to know what the chapters are
doing. Pleased to see that there is a relation building with the
chapters as we are all together in ISOC.
Stopped in Thailand to meet the local chapter, and it was interesting
how it is set up. Stopped also in Sydney to meet ISOC-AU. It was very
interesting. Important when you are travelling to meet other chapters.
Wondering if ISOC world could help chapters in fundraising in
identifying people, having marketing tools, or a way to share money of
organisational member. For instance France Telecom just joined ISOC
world, wondering if some of this money could be channelled towards
chapters too.

Aziz: Can ISOC world provide funding to help future meetings..eg, egeni
meetings

Sebastien: looking for support for events.

David: Events are not really project, making suggestion to the board
that a fund be allocated for support to events.

Alan: There are regional meeting in Africa and in Nairobi there was an
INET day at the same time as a regional meeting. And this event was
quite successful.

Franck: making the 3 communities of ISOC (IETF, Org and Chapters) to
meet and exchange information.

Khaled: ISOC to help local chapter in looking for local sponsorship.

David: Creating a newsletter to explain the chapters to the
organisational members.

Patrick: from experience, contacting a local company who is org member
of ISOC for being a chapter organisational member had to refer to its HQ
which did not understand why it should fund two entities inside the same
organisation.

Franck: problem for chapters to bring organisation members at ISOC
level. Chapter looking for organisational members would like a share of
the money back. Issues with fundraising. Looking for organisational
member for Pacific Islands chapter or for ISOC?

David: ISOC looking at the fundraising process and trying to look at new
mechanisms.

Sebastien: ISOC-AU lost a major sponsor and were looking for some ideas
on fundraising on the chapter-delegates list.

Hawa: Would like meeting at the regional level of chapters for sharing
exeprience.

David: creating a regional bureau in Africa, with an ISOC employee to
energise ISOC activities to help chapters to become vibrant. That
programme will be extended later to other regions.

Abderrahim: Some chapters are involved in trying to address the language
problem. May be set up a project to address the general problem of the
language issue.

Jordi: New here, but not fully aware of all the tools, but like to
exchange information as early as possible in projects organisation by
chapters.

David: encourage people to use the chapter-delegates to help in seeding
projects.

Franck: may be internationalisation of the website with link to people
who has a knowledge of ISOC and can speak non-english languages.

David: Peter is aware of the issues and will address them.