[Chapter-delegates] ISOC LIVE- One year out
Secretary
secretary at isocindiamumbai.org
Sun Apr 6 16:08:51 PDT 2025
Dear Internet Society colleagues,
On behalf of ISOC India Mumbai, we write to express our full and
heartfelt support for Joly MacFie, whose unwavering commitment to
livestreaming and documenting critical Internet governance events
through ISOC.LIVE has been a cornerstone of this community’s
transparency, inclusivity, and reach.
Joly’s contributions have profoundly impacted our chapter. From the
Internet Governance Praxis series to webinars on Women in Tech
Leadership and the recent Interplanetary Internet Race 2.0, his efforts
have ensured that our local work received international visibility and
engagement. For small but active chapters like ours, that support is
invaluable.
His work is not simply about broadcasting events. It is about building
bridges, preserving institutional memory, and enabling equitable access
to knowledge for communities around the world. He has made the global
Internet governance conversation more accessible to all—especially to
the Global South.
We were especially moved by the quote Joly recently shared from Thomas
Merton:
“Do not depend on the hope of results... In the end, it is the reality
of personal relationship that saves everything.”
Indeed, it is the relationships and community spirit that Joly nurtures
through ISOC.LIVE that have made a lasting impact. His livestreaming is
more than a technical service—it is an act of service to the mission of
ISOC and its global community.
We respectfully urge the Internet Society and ISOC Foundation to
recognize and renew support for ISOC.LIVE. Let us not allow this vital
initiative to disappear due to lack of funding, especially when it
uplifts the very values ISOC stands for.
To Joly: Thank you. Your dedication has elevated our work and inspired
our community. We hope you will continue. Know that ISOC India Mumbai
stands with you, and we are not alone.
Respectfully,
Nupur Vijh
President and Secretary
ISOC India Mumbai Chapter
On 2025-04-01 03:31, Joly MacFie via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> Yes, it was March 31, 2024 that the Internet Society terminated my
> contract, that funded ISOC.LIVE, on the basis that it was surplus to
> requirements.
>
> This quote struck me this week, coming from someone here is New
> York,whose job is to interview DOGE'd federal employees, whom the
> state is actively recruiting
>
> In 1967, a young man asked the writer and monk Thomas Merton how to
> act in the face of systemic injustice. This was his unconventional
> reply:
>
> "Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact
> that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result
> at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get
> used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the
> results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work
> itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and
> more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal
> relationship that saves everything."
>
> And it is true, it is not ISOC's mission as much as its community
> that drives this livestream work. The breadth of that community,
> dedicated to a common purpose of enabling interpersonal communication,
> is what attracted me to ISOC in the first place, and continues to
> inspire...
>
> As does one person in particular, Vint Cerf,
> died-in-the-wool-3-piece-suit people-centric that he is, Big thanks
> to Vint for being the only ISOC LIVE sponsor thus far, ,funding 5 out
> of the 12 months. The other 7 months have been maintained out of my
> rapidly diminishing savings. Not a sustainable option. I still do hold
> out hope that one day I may change that 'unfunded' tag to "Funded by
> the ISOC Foundation'. Never say die.
>
> Meanwhile, here is a list of just some events that it has been my
> pleasure to document and share over the past 12 months.
>
> Apr 02, 2024 - A11yNYC - A Taste of ReelAbilities New York 2024 [1]
>
> Apr 03, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy Keynote: Chasing Peaceful Innovation
> Exploring intersections between technical Internet and Lunar
> governance [2]
>
> Apr 10, 2024 - TikTok AMA: IGP answers your questions about the TikTok
> ban [3]
>
> Apr 11, 2024 - Internet Society Foundation Research Funding
> Information Session 2024 [4]
>
> Apr 16, 2024 - The UNs Global Digital Compact: - Considerations on the
> Zero Draft [5]
>
> Apr 20, 2024 - AFNOG WEBINAR - Packet Analysis Theory & Practical Lab
> [6]
>
> Apr 23, 2024 - NYC Mesh Org Meetup [7]
>
> Apr 25, 2024 - ISOC Nigeria Girls in ICT 2024 [8]
>
> Apr 30, 2024 - RDRS How to access WHOIS data today [9]
>
> May 02, 2024 - topDNS Best Practice Webinar: A partnership to empower
> domain name registries to disrupt CSAM [10]
>
> May 08, 2024 - ISOC Tanzania Encryption Seminar for Policymakers [11]
>
> May 15, 2024 - 2024 NARALO/ISOC-NY Universal Acceptance Day [12]
>
> May 17, 2024 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Tools and
> Techniques [13]
>
> May 20, 2024 - ISOC India Bengaluru Chapter Webinar on Cyber Hygiene:
> Keeping Your Digital World Clean and Secure. [14]
>
> May 21, 2024 - Lord Renwick Memorial Lecture As If Human: the
> Regulation, Governance, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence with
> Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt [15]
>
> May 25, 2024 - ISOC Mumbai Internet Governance Praxis Series:
> Introduction to Internet Governance [16]
>
> May 30, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: Low-cost movable and static wireless
> sensor node for future Lunar explorations [17]
>
> Jun 04, 2024 - eco - NETmundial+10 recap webinar [18]
>
> Jun 04, 2024 - A11yNYC Leveling the Playing Field: Toward Equivalently
> Accessible Video Game Worlds [19]
>
> Jun 17, 2024 - DC-IoT Session at EuroDig - IoT deployment for
> sustainability [20]
>
> Jun 17, 2024 - DCAD Session at EuroDig - The European Accessibility
> Act: a Model for a More Accessible Digital Europe [21]
>
> Jul 02, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: LTE/4G for Lunar Surface Communications
> Luis Maestro [22]
>
> Jul 16, 2024 - A11yNYC - Mobile Accessibility Tools: Camera Switches
> and More Shafik Quoraishee [23]
>
> Jul 22, 2024 - NARALO - Post ICANN80 Readout [24]
>
> Jul 25, 2024 - ICANN80 - Ghana Readout [25]
>
> Aug 02, 2024 - Uganda Internet Governance Forum (UIGF) 2024 [26]
>
> Aug 10, 2024 - ISOC Mumbai - Digital India: Enhancing Governance or
> Expanding Surveillance [27]
>
> Aug 13, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: DTN over Lasercom Relay [28]
>
> Aug 17, 2024 - ISOC Mumbai - Women in Technology Leadership Webinar
> Reimagining Digital Identity [29]
>
> Aug 22, 2024 - Internet Society Online Safety SIG - Strengthening
> Online Safety: Encryption, Advocacy, and Global Security Practices
> [30]
>
> Aug 23, 2024 - Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum
> (APrIGF) 2024 [31]
>
> Aug 29, 2024 - ITIF - Emerging Tech and the Future of Accessibility
> [32]
>
> Sep 03, 2024 - Pacific Islands Internet Governance Forum (PacIGF2024)
> [33]
>
> Sep 10, 2024 - A11yNYC - The Dos and Donts of Disability
> Representation in Media [34]
>
> Sep 11, 2024 - IEEE SA - Pathways to Progress: Building Rural
> Connectivity to Meet the SDGs [35]
>
> Oct 02, 2024 - A11yNYC - Locking in Best Practices Early: Building
> PACNYC.org Vlado Vince and Natalie Kertes [36]
>
> Oct 08, 2024 - Half-Day Stakeholder Forum - WSIS+20 and the future of
> Internet Governance [37]
>
> Oct 14, 2024 - Naveed Haq Keynote at IEEE CTU Summit 2024 - Everest
> Community Network [38]
>
> Oct 14, 2024 - IEEE - Connecting the Unconnected Summit 2024 [39]
>
> Oct 19, 2024 - BSidesNYC 2024 [40]
>
> Oct 24, 2024 - Digital Multilateralism After the UN Summit of the
> Future [41]
>
> Oct 25, 2024 - New About the Internet Society video [42]
>
> Oct 25, 2024 - Whats in a Joke? Assessing Humor in Free Speech
> Jurisprudence and Content Moderation [43]
>
> Oct 30, 2024 - ISOC Egypt - Digital Infrastructure:An Industry
> Overview [44]
>
> Oct 30, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: Lunar Communications for the Artemis
> Program [45]
>
> Nov 01, 2024 - Youth at IGF 2024 [46]
>
> Nov 08, 2024 - Unpacking Global Digital Compact | Book launch [47]
>
> Nov 19, 2024 - A11yNYC - How Continuous Accessibility Can Boost Your
> Accessibility Maturity Andrew Hedges [48]
>
> Nov 22, 2024 - Africa Internet Governance Forum 2024 [49]
>
> Nov 26, 2024 - NYC Mesh Org Meetup [50]
>
> Nov 26, 2024 - ICANN81 Readout Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual
> General Meeting [51]
>
> Dec 03, 2024 - i50y EVENT - Celebrating 50 Years of the Internet from
> a Youth Perspective [52]
>
> Dec 03, 2024 - A11yNYC - Verizon's Accessibility Technology &
> Innovation Lab Fred Moltz [53]
>
> Dec 04, 2024 - IPNSIG Academy: Space Communications and Networking 101
> [54]
>
> Dec 15, 2024 - Global Internet Governance Academic Network (Giganet)
> Annual Symposium 2024 [55]
>
> Jan 08, 2025 - DIPLO 2025 Forecast: AI and Digital Developments [56]
>
> Jan 13, 2025 - ISOC Masr - The Politics of Digital Infrastructure [57]
>
> Jan 22, 2025 - Manthan: A Stakeholder discussion on the Draft Digital
> Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 [58]
>
> Jan 23, 2025 - Internet Development Conference 2025, Addis Ababa [59]
>
> Jan 24, 2025 - Ethiopia Peering Day [60]
>
> Feb 04, 2025 - A11yNYC - Older Adults and Digital Inclusion Tom Kamber
> [61]
>
> Feb 06, 2025 - Beyond WHOIS: Towards a New Framework of Internet
> Domain Registration Data Disclosure [62]
>
> Feb 07, 2025 - ISOC Bengalaru - Workshop on DNS and DNS Security [63]
>
> Feb 18, 2025 - EURALO Round Table - The New Generic Top-Level Domains
> (gTLD) Program, community reflections [64]
>
> Feb 18, 2025 - GigaNet Online 2024 Symposium [65]
>
> Feb 24, 2025 - Pulse Internet Measurement Forum Malaysia [66]
>
> Feb 26, 2025 - International Cybersecurity Norms in the UN and Beyond
> [67]
>
> Feb 26, 2025 - SELECTED WEBCASTS - APRICOT 2025 Conference [68]
>
> Feb 27, 2025 - Beyond Whois: Filling the Gaps [69]
>
> Mar 04, 2025 - A11yNYC Benchmarking Usability and the Cognitive A11y
> Frontier [70]
>
> Mar 10, 2025 - NARALO Roundtable - DNS Abuse and AI: Combatting and
> Enabling Threats [71]
>
> Mar 19, 2025 - ISOC NORGE AGM Keynote: Norways role in the governance
> of the Internet [72]
>
> Mar 21, 2025 - Encryption Under Threat: - The UKs Backdoor Mandate and
> Its Impact on Online Safety [73]
>
> Mar 23, 2025 - ISOC Mumbai - Interplanetary Internet Race 2.0 (with
> Vint Cerf) [74]
>
> Mar 25, 2025 - Free State Foundation 17th Annual Policy Conference
> [75]
>
> Mar 29, 2025 - NYC School of Data 2025 [76]
>
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> Joly MacFie +12185659365
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>
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