[Chapter-delegates] Karen Rose appointed as ISOC's Director of Education and Programs

[David McAuley]

Dear Chapter Delegates:

I am delighted to enclose below the text of an important announcement
from ISOC today. Karen Rose's appointment as Director of Education and
Programs is another major step by ISOC in working to extend our reach
and impact in pursuing our strategic operating plan. 

We are quite happy to welcome Karen to the ISOC team.

Best regards
David

David McAuley
Membership Director

KAREN ROSE APPOINTED AS ISOC'S DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND PROGRAMS
Reston, VA - 26 September 2006 - The Internet Society (ISOC) today
announced the appointment of Karen Rose as its Director of Education and
Programs. This key appointment, which is effective immediately, will
further strengthen ISOC's role in providing Internet education and
training initiatives aimed at promoting a sustainable, open, and
accessible Internet for all.
 
In this newly-created position, Karen will drive ISOC's education and
training initiatives in support of the society's strategic objectives in
the area of capacity building and Internet education. These include
broad outreach and training activities aimed at helping local
communities develop sustainable Internet infrastructures and assisting
policy makers in understanding the technical underpinnings of
contemporary Internet issues.   
Karen has extensive experience working with the Internet community,
including the IETF and the IAB, to promote the open development and
evolution of the Internet internationally.  

Karen began her career at as a policy analyst at the U.S. Federal
Communications Commission working on global Internet and e-commerce
issues.  In 1998, she joined the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce where her
work focused on the coordination of Internet naming and addressing
functions, including the Internet domain name system, ENUM, and IPv6.
In 2002, she left government to join an Internet start-up in Sydney,
Australia where her work focused on corporate strategy, product
development, and technology training.  Most recently, she has been an
independent telecommunications and Internet consultant based in Cairo,
Egypt and Sydney, Australia.  She has been an active participant in
Internet discussions in various international governmental and
non-governmental organisations including the ITU, OECD, CITEL, APEC,
ICANN, and the PTC.     

Karen will be undertaking her role with ISOC from the Asia-Pacific
region.

Lynn St. Amour, ISOC's President and CEO, said, "We are very pleased to
have Karen joining us as her background in policy and her knowledge of
key Internet technical matters is very well suited to helping ISOC
expand our educational activities in both policy and technical spheres
on a global level."

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ABOUT ISOC
The Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org) is a not-for-profit
membership organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in
Internet related standards, education, and policy. With offices in
Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the
open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of
people throughout the world. ISOC is the organizational home of the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and other Internet-related bodies
who together play a critical role in ensuring that the Internet develops
in a stable and open manner. For over 13 years ISOC has run
international network training programs for developing countries and
these have played a vital role in setting up the Internet connections
and networks in virtually every country connecting to the Internet
during this time. 
 
FOR FURTHER DETAILS:
Peter Godwin
Communications Manager, Internet Society
E-mail: godwin at isoc.org
4, rue des Falaises
1205 Geneva
Switzerland