The Internet Society (ISOC) and Vietnam

1. The Internet Society (ISOC) and Vietnam Rosa M. Delgado 12 August 2001

2. 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”

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 • ISOC’s 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

6. 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

7. The Geneva Chapter • The Geneva Chapter was founded in the earlier 90’s • 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

8. 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)

9. 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