[Chapter-delegates] Information from the Trustees

[Barrack Otieno]

Good initiative,

The Chief Operating Officer emphasised on the same in a meeting with
representatives from African Chapters in Addis Ababa last week, we need to
find ways of localising ISOCs global strategy.

Best Regards

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Eric Burger <eburger at standardstrack.com>wrote:

> Veni -
> I promise that if you keep looking backwards, we will look backwards too,
> and we can expect that nothing will change.
>
> We respect the past has happened. It sounds like it was not great. I do
> wish to highlight that all but one person on the board was not here ten
> years ago and most of the staff started in the past three years.
>
> If you will join us in looking forward into the future instead of being
> stuck in the past, I believe we can make positive changes.
> - Eric
>
> On Mar 12, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>
>  Dear Eva,
> that's a great news - was traveling and couldn't respond promptly.
> As you are aware (but some of the chapters' list are new), the relations
> between the chapters, and ISOC HQ need improvement, and it is encouraging
> to see that the BoT has come back to the same point, where it was about 10
> years ago. Back then we, the then Trustees, couldn't find a solution to the
> gridlock, but your message definitely sounds encouraging. May be naive, but
> I trust your good spirit and desire to really achieve a breakthrough.
>
> I am sure that all chapters would welcome some positive developments!
>
> And if you need any help, please, just ask us.
>
> Veni
> ISOC-Bulgaria
>
>
>
>  On 03/08/2013 06:41, Eva Frölich wrote:
>
> Dear All,****
>
> The Board Trustees and the Internet Society executive team held a joint
> retreat February to review strategic directions for the future of the
> Internet Society. Some of the issues raised by Chapters over the past
> years have bearing on the ISOC strategic directions so therefore we also
> included these issues in our discussion. ****
>
> The Internet Society and it's community work is guided by principles and
> values striving for the vision of the "Internet is for Everyone".
> The mission is stated on http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission
> .
>
> The Trustees would also like to emphazise that we believe that the
> Chapters are an integral part of our global organization. At the same time,
> the Trustees and staff realize that there remains work to do to increase
> engagement with and support for Chapters. ****
>
> With the aim of ensuring that ISOC and it´s Chapters all have the same
> understanding and can work cooperatively together, the Trustees have asked
> the executive team to report back to the Trustees on staff´s efforts to
> further align ISOC´s and Chapters activities as a basis for continuing the
> discussions. ****
>
> The Trustees also concludes that information need to flow both directions
> to ensure success for both Chapters working on local level as well as ISOC
> working on a global level.
>
> ****
>
> Kind regards
> Eva Frölich
> Chair, ISOC Board of Trustees
>
>
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