[Chapter-delegates] News from ISOC Belgium

[Flávio Rech Wagner]

Congratulations to the newly elected officers of ISOC Belgium! I wish 
you all the best.

And thank you very much for sharing your projects with us.

Best,

Flávio
President, ISOC Brazil
Chair of the ChAC Steering Committee


> 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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-- 
Prof. Flávio Rech Wagner		
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Instituto de Informática
Porto Alegre, Brasil

Presidente da Internet Society Brasil
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