[Chapter-delegates] 2009 Year End Message from ISOC President & CEO

[Maye diop]

Merry Chrismas and Happy New Year

2009/12/23, Lynn St.Amour <st.Amour at isoc.org>:
> Thanks for an Extraordinary Year of Achievements
> from Lynn St.Amour, President and CEO of ISOC
>
>
> Dear Members, Friends, and Colleagues,
>
> The end of 2009 is rapidly approaching - and what a year it has been.
> The Internet Society continued to prosper in 2009, the results of our
> work reaching wider and deeper than ever before. So it is a pleasure
> to extend my sincere gratitude to all of you whose combined efforts,
> energy, and dedication have made this such a great year.
>
> We often use the term "Internet community" and, looking back at the
> achievements of this year, it is clear that these are truly the result
> of a strong, committed community pulling together around shared values
> and principles.
>
> It is impossible to list here all of the Internet Society's
> achievements from such a busy and productive year, but I would like to
> single out a few highlights.
>
> Within the Enabling Access Initiative, we worked closely with Chapters
> and other local and regional partners to significantly extend our
> technical and policy capacity building programmes, especially in
> Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. These efforts were aided
> through a revitalized INET programme with specialized content
> developed in partnership with local communities, and which reached out
> successfully to hundreds of participants in each location.  This work
> advanced our profile and strengthened our message in many high-level
> forums, such as the OECD, the World Bank, and the ITU. Access
> continues to be one of the major themes in many of the Chapter and
> other member projects supported by our grants programmes.
>
> In our InterNetWorks Initiative, a number of new efforts contributed
> to helping to advance the health of the Internet. ISOC continues to
> project a strong voice for IPv6 deployment, so it has been pleasing to
> see in 2009 that IPv6 is gathering momentum around the world. In an
> exciting new development this year, ISOC launched a series of topical,
> lively panel discussions during IETF meetings. The first on IPv6
> deployment attracted much international attention. Together with the
> subsequent panels on DNS security and bandwidth management issues,
> these events have set the scene for what will be an important ongoing
> activity, helping to advance the health of the Internet and promoting
> the role of the IETF.
>
> ISOC's Trust and Identity Initiative benefited from two important new
> staff additions in 2009, increasing our involvement in many important
> new initiatives and partnerships in both the Trust and Identity
> spaces. One of the most significant is the Kantara Initiative
> (formerly the Liberty Alliance), in which ISOC has developed a strong
> voice and leadership role.
>
> Throughout all of our work in 2009, we strived to promote better
> understanding of the nature and importance of the Internet Model of
> development and the relationships of the many organizations and
> functions making up the Internet Ecosystem. These efforts have clearly
> paid off and we were very pleased to see many of our messages
> reflected in the words and actions of many others in regional,
> national, and global discussions. In 2009, ISOC's key messages were
> more frequently cited in media reports and reflected in statements by
> policy makers around the world than ever before.
>
> Additions to ISOC's staff in 2009 helped us make big strides in
> producing better publications and communications resources, delivering
> important information and services in more languages, and providing
> much greater support for events where Chapters, Individual and
> Organization Members, and others come together in support of our
> common mission. The successful Sphere project continues to be an
> excellent process for enabling the full potential of the Chapter
> network. And we were very pleased to recently launch the first phase
> of our new Association Management System as a much improved tool for
> Chapter and member interaction.
>
> This year was one of ISOC's most significant ever in terms of global
> engagement. With highly visible roles in the EU, ITU, OECD, IGF, and
> many other major policy and technical forums, it is clear that ISOC's
> reputation as a trusted and authoritative voice on critical Internet
> issues continues to grow stronger. We again were honoured to
> coordinate the participation of other organizations, especially in the
> Internet Technical Advisory Committee to the OECD and the Internet
> Pavilion at the ITU's Telecom World 2009. At the latter event, ISOC
> announced the Next Generation Leaders programme, a new activity
> starting in 2010 to build on our past successes such as the Network
> Training Workshops (NTW's), as well as our current work in Fellowships
> to the IETF, and Ambassadorships to the IGF and other forums, adding
> coursework and mentoring to help accelerate the careers of the young
> practitioners who will lead the Internet into its next generation.
>
> Finally, the Internet Society is finishing the year on a high note,
> having just announced our support for the World Wide Web Consortium
> (W3C), to help it evolve as a more agile, inclusive, and flexible
> organization, as it creates and promotes open standards.
>
> There is so much more I could mention here - it really has been an
> extraordinary year.  As 2009 draws to a close, it is important to
> recognize and thank all those who contributed to such a successful
> year.  So, thank you to all the Individual and Organization Members,
> the Chapters, and all our other supporters and partners for their
> efforts and support as we worked together in pursuit of our common
> goals.  Thank you to our friends in the Internet Engineering Task
> Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) without whose
> values and work, the Internet, as we know it, would not exist.   And,
> of course, thank you to the ISOC staff, the ISOC Board of Trustees,
> the Organization Member Advisory Council and the Public Interest
> Registry (PIR), for their efforts and support.  To all of you, your
> support is vital to helping the Internet improve the lives of people
> everywhere.
>
> Finally, I'd like to extend my very best wishes to you and your
> families during the holiday season, as we couldn't do what we do
> without their support.  I look forward to working together with all of
> you for a prosperous and successful 2010.
>
> Warmest regards,
> Lynn
>
> Lynn St.Amour
> President & CEO, Internet Society
>
>
>
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