[Chapter-delegates] ISOC meetings in San Francisco - Internet Observatory project proposal

[Tommi Karttaavi]

Dear all,

I would like to introduce an agenda item I asked Sabrina to add to the 
agenda a few days ago. It is a proposal for a Community Grant project 
called "Internet Observatory".

The project in a nutshell:
- International portal for information on national approaches to public 
policy issues concerning the Internet
- Content consists of reports written by contributors
- Contributors are members of ISOC Chapters and other partners
- Reports are published as blog entries and categorised by tagging
- Reporting language is English
- Reports should be short, neutral, stating the facts and providing 
links to further information (e.g. law texts, news)
- Reports can be discussed

Objectives
- Making it easy to find and compare Internet public policy related 
information in different countries
- Increasing transparency
- Building awareness of globally emerging issues

We are applying for a small grant for setting up the platform and 
getting it going.

As you can see participation from as many chapters as possible is 
crucial to the success of this portal, so feedback would be appreciated. 
We are also looking for members for the project steering group (no 
physical meetings, we'll set up a mailing list).

Best regards,

Tommi
ISOC Finland

On 11.2.2011 18:33, Sabrina Wilmot wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This is to let you know about our upcoming ISOC meetings in San Francisco alongside the ICANN 40 week. We have scheduled two meetings on the following days:
>
> 1. “Internet Society Participation @ ICANN” meeting,
>       Sunday 13 March 2011,
>       UTC 02:30-03:30 (18:30-19:30pm local)
>
> 2. ISOC Chapters and Members meeting at ICANN 40,
>      Tuesday 15 March 2011,
>      UTC 02:30-04:00 (18:30-20:00pm local)
>
> We welcome your suggestions for agenda topics, please send them to<chapter-support at isoc.org>. Please also feel free to approach us if you wish to arrange for individual meetings during the week, or in case you have any further questions. I'm happy to inform you that both, Sebastian Bellagamba and Sally Wentworth, will be in San Francisco.
>
> More details regarding the meeting rooms, remote participation, catering etc. will be provided as soon as possible. Please keep checking the meeting information on our webpage at:  http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/
>
> The notes from our previous meetings in Cartagena (at ICANN 39) are now available online:
> - “Internet Society Participation @ ICANN” meeting notes at http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/?p=948
> - ISOC Chapters and Members meeting notes at http://isoc.org/wp/chapter-meetings/?p=952
>
> As suggested during the meetings in Cartagena we are going to implement a new "icann-discuss" mailing list, more details on this will follow shortly.
>
> Thanks,
> Sabrina Wilmot
> Internet Society
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