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

Thu Dec 24 01:47:14 PST 2009

Dear Lynn :

Greetings from Nepal!
Glad to hear the achievements of ISOC. We look forward for more help and
contribution for the upcoming year and hope ISOC will always  a head in
evolution , standardisation and future growth of Internet.

Wishing ISOC team and chapter delegates a "merry christmas' & a "Happy &
Propsporous New Year"

Best Wishes & Regards,
Eswari Pd. Sharma
President, ISOC Nepal

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:06 PM, ISOC Pakistan Chapter <isoc at isocpk.org>wrote:

> Thanks Lynn:
>
> We extend and look forward to a very different year and a higher level of
> involvement of chapters at ISOC. We look forward to more events more
> engagements and support.
>
> Wishing the ISOC team a Happy New Year
>
> regards
>
> Qasim Khan
> ISOC Pakistan Chapter
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Lynn St.Amour <st.Amour at isoc.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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