[Chapter-delegates] ISOC Membership Initiatives

[Enrique Arrieta Noguera]

Dear Anne, Terry Monroe, All:

We at ISOC Colombia have been aware of the tremendous effort that ISOC has 
been doing in expanding its basic constituency represented in a very large 
number of new chapters, which shows that ISOC leadership understood where to 
concentrate and put its maximum attention.

I support Jacek Gajewski of ISOC-Poland´s view that if internet is supposed 
to be for every one, then one important rule to keep is that a basic 
membership must be free. But as we need resources to move one, then other 
types of paid memberships should be developed emphasizing corporate 
memberships.

I would like to suggest to team up with PIR to see if chapters could somehow 
manage the .org part of the dominium universe so that we could assure a 
constant flow of resources to chapters and commitment of chapters in 
pursuing ISOC vision, mission, strategic operating plan, and I encourage 
colleagues from other chapters to follow, study and discuss the links 
provided in Terry´s message and support ISOC´s BRIM initiative and 
membership policy review discussing these interesting issues and formulating 
suggestions to be also discussed in this interesting forum.

Best regards,

Enrique Arrieta-Noguera
President
ISOC - Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anne Lord" <lord at isoc.org>
To: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:00 PM
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] ISOC Membership Initiatives


>
> The email below is being sent on behalf of Terry Monroe (who is on
> travel out of the office at the moment).
>
> ------------------
> Dear Chapter Delegates,
>
> As you know, ISOC is making significant investments in the areas of
> membership, policy, education, and communications and we are
> committed to
> ongoing improvements and new initiatives in support of of ISOC's
> vision and
> mission.  We are writing now to provide you with a status report on two
> current initiatives:
>
> Business Rules in Membership System Initiative (BRIMS Initiative)
>
> One initiative is the development of business rules that address roles,
> responsibilities and expectations of members, chapters and staff as it
> relates to our overall membership policies as well as to our membership
> system.  ISOC has contracted with an experienced membership and database
> consultant to participate in the process of developing an apppropriate
> solution to the complex and sensitive issues surrounding our
> membership and
> chapter requirements.  We thank the many chapters and members who have
> shared their views to-date with the consultant and we look forward to
> continuing our dialogue with all of you.  Our desired outcome is one
> that
> results in clear and precise business rules with widespread
> acceptance among
> the ISOC community.
>
> Membership Policy Review
>
> The other initiative is a review of ISOC's current membership policies,
> principles and procedures. Among the areas to be addressed: membership
> categories (for individual and  organisation members); policies and
> principles regarding the establishment, scope and  development of
> chapters;
> clarifying the roles and value propositions for members (organizations,
> individual) and chapters; assisting the chapters in finding support for
> their activities and exploring opportunities for joint activities
> with ISOC
> chapters.  Also, the business rules resulting from the BRIMs
> initiative will
> be incorporated into this review.  Getting ISOC community support for
> each
> stage is important for building a strong platform for further
> advancement.
> And before we can build the platform, we must establish our base,
> necessarily starting with ISOC's purpose and legal statutes:
>
> ISOC's Overall Purpose: Per our Articles of Incorporation, ISOC is
> established as a non-profit, charitable organization.
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/incorp.shtml
>
> ISOC By-Laws: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/bylaws.shtml
>
> ISOC Mission and Strategic Operating Plan:
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/mission/
>
> Policy on Establshment and Conduct of Chapters:
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/prcchp.shtml
>
> Please let us know that we have your support for proceeding in this
> manner.
> It is important that we all start from the same base or we will
> differ in
> the future and not know why.  We look forward to a robust dialogue with
> chapters and members as move forward with these projects.
>
> Terry Monroe
> Director of Development & Membership
> Internet Society
> +1 703 326 9880 x115
>
>
>
>
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