[Chapter-delegates] Community Feedback Shaping Our Plans

[Stine Gaba Gomez]

Dear Chapter Leaders,

Thanks to everyone who joined our first-ever Mobilization Studio in Dublin last month. More than 50 community members — including chapter leaders, organizational members, alumni, and individual members — took part in this prototype interactive session exploring one key question:

“In 2026, our community moves as one — informed, mobilized, unstoppable. What will it take to make this real?”

What You Told Us


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Capacity Building — you want sustained training for youth, policymakers, and marginalized communities, focusing on cybersecurity, AI literacy, Internet governance, and digital skills.
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Multistakeholder Collaboration — there should be more partnerships, joint initiatives, and collective advocacy with governments, industry, academia, and community groups.
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Localized Empowerment — communities need to be empowered to lead context-specific solutions to the issues that are important to them.
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Policy Advocacy — there needs to be more emphasis on Internet Society’s collective voice as a powerful tool for public policy impact and how it can influence local and national Internet policies.
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Communication & Coordination — you asked for more two-way communication between Internet Society staff and chapters, improved platforms, better information, clearer direction, and stronger alignment on goals, priorities,and outcomes.
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Inclusivity & Diversity — you told us that community networks are essential tools for empowerment and sustainability, and that underserved and remote regions must be connected.
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Online Trust & Safety — there’s a strong need for safe, multilingual, accessible online experiences.
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Organizational — you want clearer ways for members to meaningfully contribute to Internet Society’s mission, as well as ways to share knowledge, information, and resources with other chapters and members.

Looking Forward

We asked you how, together, we could achieve the goals highlighted during the session. You told us you wanted to:


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Grow the community: more members, more youth, more countries represented.
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Engage policymakers: direct advocacy, and timely, more coordinated responses to potentially harmful policies.
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Train communities: digital literacy, cybersecurity, governance, and inclusion.
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Strengthen collaboration: chapters working together and with external partners.
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Serve as Ambassadors: championing openness, safety, and inclusiveness.
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Organize & participate in IGFs and multistakeholder processes.
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Lead capacity-building at national and local levels.

Next Steps

While this input comes from a small subset of our community, it offers valuable insights into what matters most to you and reinforces some of the priorities we’re already focused on, based on feedback from last year<https://isoc.box.com/s/nyza0qm3tnajyz05nwu9aaugk5aqkva8>. Many of you have also contributed to our three online working sessions on the Internet Society advocacy strategy, where you co-created an operational roadmap that translates global strategy into local, sustainable activities.

Thank you for the thoughtful input shared during our Mobilization Studio and online working sessions. Your contributions — from stakeholder mapping to tactical recommendations to commitments — are helping shape our collective path forward. We will use these findings to inform our 2026 mobilization plans, enhance our tools and communications, and help set shared priorities for policy and advocacy.

By the end of Q1 next year, we’ll share our strategic mobilization plans and roadmap, including collaboration opportunities, key milestones, and ongoing efforts to ensure community insights continue to inform our global planning.

Thank you for all you do!

Stine


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Stine Gaba Gomez, Advocacy and Community Mobilization Advisor
gomez at isoc.org<mailto:philipsen at isoc.org>

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