The Internet Society (ISOC) and Vietnam

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The Internet Society (ISOC) and Vietnam

• Rosa M. Delgado
• 12 August 2001

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Internet Society (ISOC)

• Mission statement
• To assure the open development,
• evolution and use of the Internet for
• the benefit of all people throughout
• the world

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Internet Society (ISOC)

• A professional membership society, based in
  Reston -Virginia, US
• 150 organizational and 6,000 individual members
  in over 100 countries
• Non-profit, non-governamental and open membership
• Worldwide members are individuals, corporations,
  non-profit organizations and government agencies
• Hosts annual Internet conferences, trains people
  in networking technologies, conducts workshops
  for educators and publishes magazines such as OTI
  

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The Internet Society (ISOC)

• Organizational support body for the groups
  responsible for Internet infrastructure standards
  includesIETF and IAB
• Support to the ISTF (social issues)
• Provides leadership
• technical and operational standards, policy
  issues and education
• addressing issues that confront the future of the
  Internet
• cooperation
• Governed by the Board of Trustees elected by its
  membership around the world

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Latest Events in ISOCStockholm - June 20001

• BoT launched a strategic organization renewal
• Strengthen the development of worldwide open
  technical standards in the IETF
• Create and disseminate high quality information
  and education worldwide for a responsible
  Internet development
• Promote global development and deployment of
  policies favoring open and equitable access to
  the Internet
• ISOCs work in a number of areas remains critical
  to the development of the Internet worldwide
• BoT will review the full state of ISOC programmes
  and activities by 3Q2001
• Expect to implement recommendations in the next
  meeting in Utah, Dec 2001

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ISOC Chapters

• Enable members to become more personally involved
  in the Internet future that affects your location
• Brings more focus to local and regional issues
  and offers the ability to generate stronger input
  on local issues to local authorities and to ISOC
• Provides a way of networking more closely with
  other Internet oriented people in a local or
  regional area
• Set ups programmes and projects that are
  meaningful to your country

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The Geneva Chapter

• The Geneva Chapter was founded in the earlier
  90s
• Founded by Internet pioneers interested mainly in
  technology development at the time
• Special Interest Groups were formed
• Developing countries (I chair)
• e-business (failure) - due to too ambitious
  programmes

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The Geneva Chapter

• Activities are
• Keynote speakers are invited to make high level
  presentations at the monthly meetings
• Attract members by selecting hot issues of
  discussion
• Provide financial support to chapters in
  developing countries (e.g. Mali, Madagascar)
• Monthly meetings (same place, same time)
• Social get together
• Members are very active 2 BoTs (B. Segal and R.
  Delgado)

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DevSig

• Activities are
• Monthly meetings to discuss to issues of common
  interest (same place - CERN, same time)
• Discussion panels hot issues are brought to the
  table (digital divide, ICANN issues, G8
  Dot-Force,
• Keynote speakers are invited to attract members
  in development issues (UN, ITU, WIPO, etc.)
• Social get together