[Chapter-delegates] News from ISOC Belgium

[Frederic Taes]

Dear Internet Society Community,

It's a pleasure to communicate you the result of the elections of the 
Board of the Internet Society Chapter Belgium for the next 3 years term 
(mid 2025 - mid 2028). Elections were held on May 28th during the Annual 
General Assembly, and on Thursday June 12th 2025, the newly elected 
Board attributed the roles:

- Claire Pershan, Board Member

- Eric Tomson, Secretary

- Frans Gerbosch, Treasurer

- Frédéric Taes, President until 25.10.2025

- Johannes Schnack, President as from 25.10.2025

- Liubomir Nikiforov, Board Member


We are pleased to have 2 new young active members in the Board :

- Claire Pershan being EU Advocacy Lead at The Mozilla Foundation, and 
previously Policy Coordinator at EU DisInfoLab (home for disinformation 
activists and experts)

- Liubomir Nikiforov, PhD Researcher in Law & Technology and Executive 
Team Member at Brussels Privacy Hub, an Academic Privacy Research Centre


We would like to thank Nadia Tjaha for her involvement to the Internet 
community over the past years, in our Chapter as Board Member, as 
Coordinator of YouthDIG (Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance), active 
at EURODIG, .EU day, and much more.


Many projects are in the pipeline of our Chapter:

- a new version of our free open source isTrust tool to contibute 
fighting phishing and DNS Abuse (see teaser previous version on 
https://istrust.org/teaser/teaser-v0.8.mp4)

- an event on the place of women in IT and the Internet, in 
collaboration with NAM-IP Computer Museum (https://nam-ip.be) and other 
partners as University/Schools

- the first National Internet Governance Forum (National IGF) in Belgium

- continuing our advocacy work for Human Rights as privacy thanks to 
strong encryption, with an alternative path to address Child Sexual 
Abuse Material issues

- ... many others to come with the newly elected Board!


I'll myself continue to be part of this wonderful team, ensuring now the 
transition to Johannes for the leadership, enabling me to dedicate more 
time to our sister organization ICANN, while staying involved in ISOC 
for projects and to reinforce inter-chapters collaboration. I would also 
like to personally thank great people at ISOC: Nick Hyrka (we miss you), 
David Frautschy (you are incredible), Callum Voge and all the team under 
the refreshing leadership of Sally Wentworth.


Best Regards,

Frédéric Taes,

ISOC Belgium President