[Chapter-delegates] News from ISOC Belgium

[Yuri Kargapolov]

Congrats Frederic and the ISOC Belgium team.
On behalf of ISOC Ukraine, I wish success, the development of initiatives, drive in work.
With hope for a personal meeting.
 
Best regards,
Yuri (ISOC Ukraine Chapter)
 
 
Friday, June 13, 2025, 2:10:46 AM, you wrote:


> 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


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