[Chapter-delegates] ISOC Realignment

[Joly MacFie]

A couple of immediate questions

What about "The Internet is for Everyone" ? Do we need/have a new core
motto? Or is this still good?

What's that asterisk after Regional Engagement for?

j


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:

>  Thank you, Ted.
>
> And good luck to Kathy in her new - and challenging - job!
>
> Is it possible to receive more details how the three priorities will be
> achieved? Also, what the internal restructure will mean in terms of who is
> going to lead these new offices?
>
> I am sure the chapters would be more than helpful, if they see also what
> their place in these changes will be. We would like to discuss these items
> inside our board, and on the Facebook page, and as others may want to do
> that, too, please, let us know if this is public information, or not?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 03/12/14 15:25, Ted Mooney wrote:
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> From the office of Kathy Brown
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>   Colleagues,
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>
> The Internet has matured and evolved over the past 20 years from a
> "nascent technology" with imagined--but then unknown--potential to the
> world-wide platform for connection, collaboration, community and commerce
> that it is today. We face, as we are all aware, new challenges in ensuring
> that the principles that got us here remain central to the continuing
> evolution of the Internet. We are committed, with the same passion we have
> always shown, to meet these challenges head on.
>
>
>
> To be successful we must be focused, disciplined and organized in a way
> that leverages all of our expertise, talent and accumulated knowledge. We
> must be a cohesive team, ready to work together, enlist allies, tell our
> story and engage with everyone with a stake in an open, secure, global
> network of networks.
>
>
>
> We have committed to achieving three priorities:
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> #1. Maintaining and strengthening multi-stakeholder processes both
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> globally and locally.
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> #2. Promoting robustness and resiliency of Internet security and privacy
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> through technology standards and deployment; and
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>
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> #3. Advancing the deployment of core Internet infrastructure and
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> evolution of technology to ensure the sustainability and reliability of
>
> the Internet.
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>
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> To better leverage our talent, expertise and budget assets to meet these
> objectives, we will be streamlining our business case and realigning a
> number of our functions and people.
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>
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> Effective Monday, March 17, 2014:
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>
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> We will refocus our organizational structure to ensure responsibility and
> accountability for achieving our priorities by:
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>
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> 1. Establishing an office of Regional Engagement* at the executive level;
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> 2. Realigning our engagement, messaging and communications functions into
> one integrated office;
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> 3. Consolidating the technical work of the organization into the Chief
> Internet Technical Office;
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> 4. Strengthening our Global Policy Office;
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> 5. Consolidating our business, administrative and financial functions in
> the Finance Office;
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> 6. Positioning the economist as a shared asset;
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>
>
> These changes will require each of us to demonstrate both the high
> professional commitment we have to the overall mission of ISOC as well as
> patience, openness to change and willingness to "exercise new muscles" to
> adapt to a more integrated approach to doing our work.
>
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kathy
>
>  Kathy Brown
>
>  President and Chief Executive Officer
>   The Internet Society
>
>
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