[Chapter-delegates] Revised Chapter Agreement

[Richard Hill]

Dear Alan,

I think that your suggestion below is significant, so I will bring it to the attention of the Chapters Advisory Council.

Best,
Richard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chapter-delegates [mailto:chapter-delegates-
> bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Alan Levin
> Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 09:56
> To: Joyce Dogniez; ISOC Chapter Delegates; chapter-support at isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] Revised Chapter Agreement
> 
> Hi all,
> 

SNIP 
 
> One of our primary purposes as an association of Internet Society
> members, is to participate in the ICT policy making processes in our
> country. Another purpose is to assist our colleagues in other countries
> with their policy making in that country.
> 
> We have asked for over a decade for global support on national policy
> making activities. I have suggested that a policy analyst who can
> compare various trending policies to be able to provide us with
> important international data about other policies in other countries of
> similar nature. For example we have a Cybersecurity Bill in our
> Parliamentary process and it will be invaluable to see an analysis of
> it’s components compared to other countries that have already been
> through that process, ideally not a US centric or “North” view,
> something neutral would be ideal.
> 
> So regards this section:
> > Internet Society Support.
> > The Internet Society will provide the following support to the
> chapters in accordance with ISOC’s annual business plan:
> 
> I suggest again that we need support from ISOC Global to provide a
> global policy analyst to assist with support on National Policy Making
> activities. This should not be a local activity, it’s not regional,
> it's a global policy analyst  activity need that we have had for
> decades. Please help !
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> 
> Alan Levin
> ISOC-ZA
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