[Chapter-delegates] on the importance of voting for trustees

[Kondie Masiye]

Thanks for the insight, Prof.

Regards,

Kondwani

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 13:46, Luis Miguel M Martinez via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> As you may be aware, next Friday, the voting for a trustee elected by ISOC
> Chapters will close. Last year there was a very good number of chapters
> submitting a ballot. However, we can do it better ! For some people, the
> role of trustees is not well understood. They are the directors seated at
> the board of the Internet Society and elected or appointed by the IETF, the
> organizational members or the chapters of ISOC. The appointment is for 3
> years and can be re-elected once. Although each of the 12 trustees plus
> additional appointees act towards our mission and values without favoring
> their “constituency”, the reality is that trustees arising from IETF or the
> organizational members are not always aware of the work we make at chapters
> and why our work as volunteers is so complicated at times. Daily work at
> those groups is quite different from chapter work. Therefore, it is
> important to get acquainted with their proposals through the candidates’
> forum (which just closed). We must elect a trustee that is knowledgeable,
> passionate, experienced, able to dialogue and that shows no other interests
> than ISOC's. The result of the election will be a person with the complex
> task of bringing into the board the view of thousands of members in the
> chapters.
>
> Please vote.
>
> Yours,
>
> Luis Martinez
> Former Trustee
>
> Luis Prof. Luis M Martínez Cervantes, PhD, MSc, BScEE, MIEE Professor and
> researcher Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City. Internet Society Chapter
> Mexico.
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