ISOC and ISOC Chapters Worldwide

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ISOC and ISOC Chapters Worldwide

• ISOC GVA Chapter, DevSIG meeting
• 21 February 2006
• Anne LordSnr. Manager Chapters Ind. Members

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Overview

• About ISOC
• All about chapters
• ISOC initiatives
• Focus on chapters

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ISOC - who we are

• Founded 1992 by Internet Pioneers
• For global co-operation and co-ordination of the
  Internet
• International, not-for-profit, membership
  organisation
• 85 organisational members
• 25,000 individual members
• 80 chapters
• Works to provide leadership
• Standards, education and policy
• Funded by organisation members and .org registry

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ISOCs Mission
"To assure the open development, evolution and
use of the Internet for the benefit of all
people throughout the world."
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ISOC Membership
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ISOC Chapters

• Chapters support ISOCs mission and goals
• Extend reach and influence of ISOC by acting
  locally
• Serve interests of local community
• Organise activities/events/education locally
• Provide services in local language
• Act as forum for networking
• Inform ISOC policy making
• Chapters inform ISOC of local/regional issues
• Provide input on global issues to the ISOC
  Secretariat
• Operate as not-for-profit entities
• Mostly run by volunteers

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Where are the Chapters ?
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Where are the Chapters?
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How are Chapters formed?

• Local interested community
• Assemble founding members
• Hold planning meeting
• Complete necessary local formalities
• Complete application form on ISOC website
• Review by ISOC
• Due diligence exercised
• Review by chapter delegates mailing list
• Submit by-laws in English and list of 25 members
• Chartered and approved

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Chapters in Formation

• Recently formed
• ISOC Romania, ISOC Democratic Republic of Congo,
  ISOC Republic of Congo, ISOC Burundi

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Chapter Development

• Not all chapters are active
• Survey in 2006 indicated that approximately 15
  are inactive, more are not very active
• 3 chapters were uncontactable
• Beginning 2004 increase in focus on chapters
• Regional bureaus
• Project funding
• Additional staff resources (Snr Manager 1)

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Chapter Development

• Strengthening chapters
• Establish information repository
• How to guides, publicity, chapter management
  guidelines..
• Assist chapters to provide value to their members
  
• IETF fellowship, co-ordination of multi-chapter
  events
• Co-ordinate initiatives to support involve
  younger members new groups
• Chapter mentoring programme
• New chapters can be mentored by more
  experienced chapters
• Facilitate participation of non English speakers
• Regional bureaus

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Regional Bureaus

• One year pilot
• Africa and LAC bureaus created late 2006
• Others may follow e.g Asia
• Activities
• Work closely with chapters
• Strengthen chapters and support new chapters
• Develop bureau websites targeted to region
• Participate in organising regional symposiums
• Involve bureaus in policy education initiatives
  in regions
• Participate in multilingualism activities

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Chapter Development

• Improve chapter to chapter communication
• Regular on-line and in person meetings
• Discussion forums (blogs)
• Chapter news wiki
• Revise policies and procedures
• Encourage consistent look and feel
• Need to ensure open, transparent accountable
• Policies for reinvigorating chapters when inactive

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Pilot news wiki
http//www.peachymango.org/isoc/
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Chapter Development

• Membership database
• Evaluation of current system (2006)
• Different models of business rules exist
• Review of business rules needed with view to
  agreement on one model
• To be developed in consultation with chapters
• Staff position to be recruited

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Chapter Development

• Project funding
• US 200,000 available for 2007
• Available to chapters and members
• Two rounds of funding April Sept
• More information
• http//www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/projects
• Proposal criteria
• Any member or chapter in good standing
• Results must be made publicly available
• Expected outcome and benefits to the community,
  project schedule, partner orgs, results shared
  with community

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Chapter Development

• Project Funding awards Nov 2006
• ISOC Hong Kong 9,000 compilation of a book
  providing an in-depth study of the emerging
  digital public sphere
• PICISOC, Fiji US3,000 to run a competition to
  localise Firefox to the native language of the
  user
• ISOC Argentina and Disability Special Needs
  Chapter US6,450 to promote web accessibility
• ISOC Morocco 10,000 to create a portal for the
  visually impaired
• ISOC Israel US10,000 to IT Peace Ambassadors
• ISOC Québec US10,000 to a pilot to "Connect
  Québec" 95 high-speed Internet penetration in
  Québec by 2017

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Focus on one Project

• ISOC Puerto Rico - 10,000
• Internet Clubs project focusing on education and
  leadership for young people through the Internet
• Established 2 Internet clubs in Metropolitan
  area school and in a special community
• Developed first ever websites
• Trained 25 school teachers and 20 students ages
  10-18
• Established an internship programme with
  technology company
• Planned to establish 10 more Internet clubs

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Focus on Chapters

• Argentina, Pacific Islands and Québec

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Focus on Chapters - Argentina

• Incorporated in 1994 - 3rd resurrection of
  chapter
• 34 members, 162 pending
• Activities
• 2006 was reconstruction year
• 3 large events planned for 2007
• Workshops (Apr), web accessibility (Jun)
  (Project Funding), Argentinian INET in (Sep)
• 3 WGs Technology, Public policy and
  inclusiveness
• Challenges
• Finances! Charge 20 US/year membership fee
• Keeping people motivated

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Focus on Chapters - PICISOC

• Regional Chapter
• Covering 22 island states, 420 members
• Chartered in 1999 incorporated in 2005
• Activities
• IPv6 forum summit, dynamic coalition on access
  connectivity for remote communities (IGF),
  PacINET Aug 06/07, Internet in the Pacific
  (Project Funding)more..
• SIGs
• IPv6, Free Open Source Software (FOSS), Women
  in Technology (WIT), CROP-ICT, Education, GIS,
  new media..
• Challenges
• Bandwidth and cost of bandwidth for average user

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Focus on Chapters - Québec

• Chartered since 2000, 200 members
• Activities
• First annual internet 2020 conference on free
  software
• Get together day for Quebec Internet Pioneers
• Forum on the virtualisation of reality of
  Internet in schools
• Produce recommendation for IDN implementation
  under .ca
• Participation and animation in ICANN NARALO
• Challenges
• Hard to organise activitites with no staff
• Recruiting corporate members who can provide some
  funding, since ind. membership is free
• Equal male-female representation on our board

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Questions?

• Thank you for listening