[Chapter-delegates] Re-send: ISOC Thailand Chapter important request - reply by 26 Oct 2006

Mon Oct 30 22:52:09 PST 2006

Dear Terry,

I asked my secretary to reply to you email on my behalf but unfortunately
she misunderstood my instruction. She tried to collect the information
for me to use in the reply.

Anyway, it is better late than never and my reply is inserted below the
questions.

Best regards,
Srisakdi

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Terry Weigler wrote:

> Dear Srisakdi Charmonman
>
> I am writing to you and your other ISOC chapter delegates personally with
> an important request.
>
> We are now in the process of building our 2007 budget and even scoping
> plans for 2008 and 2009. And we are very hopeful to work with our chapters
> in making the chapter experience within ISOC more productive both for ISOC
> and for its chapters.
>
> I now want to take the measure, informally, of how many of our chapters
> are actively working with us in pursuit of the ISOC mission and goals so I
> can develop plans accordingly.
>
> So I have two important requests.
>=========================================================================
==========================================================================
> 1. Please reply to this e-mail by October 26th with your comments on
> your chapter activities. Reply to <chapters at isoc.org>.
>
> -   did your chapter vote in the 2006 elections for the Board of Trustees?
      No, we did not.

> -   will you vote in the 2007 elections to the ISOC Board?
      Yes, we will.

> -   do you regularly read the chapters delegates mailing list?
      Yes.

> -   do you regularly read and use the ISOC monthly newsletter?
      Yes and we were thinking about translating it into Thai language.

> 2.  Do you have regular meetings or are you in regular contact with your
> members?
>
      Yes, together with Thailand Internat Association, Thailand Chapter
of the ACM, Thailand Chapter of the Computer Society of the IEEE, we have
at least one meeting per month.
      As a matter of fact, last year we organized 3 internaional
conferences where I presented the following papers

(1) Charmonman, S. "University-Level eLearning in ASEAN". Special Issue of
    IJCIM, Volume 13, No. SP1. Proceedings of the Second International
    Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society, organized by the
    Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, ISOC
    Thailand Chapter and related learned societies. Bangkok,
    Thailand, Pp. 11.1 - 11.6, August 4-7, 2005.
(2) Charmonman, S. "eASEAN Task Force and eASEAN Business Council". Special
    Issue of IJCIM, Volume 13, No. SP2. Preceedings of the International
    Conference on Computer and Industrial Management (ICIM), organized by
    Assumption University, ISOC Thailand Chapter and related learned
    societies Bangkok, Thailand, Pp. 23.1 - 23.4, October 29-30, 2005.
(3) Charmonman, S. and Chorpothong, N. "Digital Lifestyle and the
    Road Ahead". Special Issue of IJCIM, Volume 13, No. SP3. Proceedings
    of the Forth International Conference on eBusiness, organized by the
    Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, ISOC
    Thailand Chapter and related learned societies. Bangkok,
    Thailand, Pp. 2.1 - 2.8, November 19-20, 2005.

 > 3. Will you kindly submit budget suggestions, if you have them, to
 > planning at isoc.org as per the mail below?
>
We do have financial support from Thailand Internet Association where we
have about 18,000 members and we collect 2.5 US$ each per year, totalling
about 45,000 US$ per year. For the Conferences we also have sponsors, e.g.
sponsors for the three conference last year about 50,000 US$.

The printed proceedings are available to members of ISOC Board of
Thrustees and ISOC chapters, if they are interested in.

If you like us to help organize ISOC event in Thailand we will be
delighted to.

Best regards,
Srisakdi
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> Please feel free to comment otherwise with any other suggestions
> you might have.
>
> Many thanks
> David
> ---------------
> From: "David McAuley" <mcauley at isoc.org>
> To: <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:08:11 -0400
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] FW: [ISOC-members-announce] ISOC Budget
>       planning comments requested
>
> Dear Chapter Delegates:
>
> Please see below an important request by ISOC staff welcoming input,
> suggestions from our members as we work on the next budget cycle and
> look at 2007 to 2009. Can you please make sure this request gets wide
> dissemination in your chapter. Thank you very much.
>
> Best regards
> David
>
> David McAuley
> Membership Director
> Internet Society
> 703-326-9880, ext 104
> 703-963-5887 (mobile)
> mcauley at isoc.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: isoc-members-announce-bounces at elists.isoc.org
> [mailto:isoc-members-announce-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of
> David McAuley
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 10:25 AM
> To: isoc-members-announce at elists.isoc.org
> Cc: planning at isoc.org
> Subject: [ISOC-members-announce] ISOC Budget planning comments requested
>
> Dear Members:
>
> ISOC recently launched its 2007 to 2009 budget and activity planning
> cycle. As a part of that process we would welcome suggestions from our
> membership regarding operational and program opportunities for the 2007
> to 2009 period.
>
> You can see that this is a multi-year period and so it is important that
> we capture the best ways to help ensure, among other things, that robust
> Policy and Education Programs with a focus on impact and sustainability
> are developed in line with our Strategic Operating Plan (SOP)
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/SOP.pdf.
>
> Also, for the last few years ISOC has focused on building up our
> infrastructure and "professionalizing" as many of our activities as
> possible, and we are looking forward to continuing this work with
> activities and programs focused on ensuring Chapters reach their full
> potential within the ISOC sphere and that we have broad Member
> participation in all our activities.   Active members and robust
> chapters all working in support of shared goals would help build a
> strong, maximally effective ISOC and ensure ISOC fulfilled our goal of
> "The Internet Is For Everyone".
>
> We are particularly interested in program-related suggestions where
> there is felt to be unmet demand or where additional emphasis should be
> placed.
>
> We also wish for your feedback on how ISOC should consider membership
> development initiatives to allow for significant and sustainable growth
> as we all work for the Internet of the future.
>
> We will separately be developing a short and compelling set of strategic
> initiatives that will focus on a 5 - 10 year horizon and will be asking
> for your ideas in a separate mailing.
>
> For this particular request for suggestions we have set up a special
> mailbox so please comment here: planning at isoc.org.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> ISOC Staff
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