November 2017 - announcements

[ISOC-CH Ann] ISOC-CH upcoming events
by Roxana Radu ISOC-CH 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Dear colleagues, This is an update regarding our upcoming events. They are clustered around Geneva in December, but diversify early next year with workshops in Biel/Bienne, Bern and Zurich. Please mark your calendars and join us on these occasions. In the framework of the Internet Governance Forum (18-21 Dec 2017 in Geneva): - presence at the Joint Civil Society event <https://www.isoc.ch/events/joint-civil-society-meeting-2017> - participation in Open Forum entitled "Digital Switzerland" Strategy – Creating networked transformation processes through dialogue on 18 Dec - presence and materials at the ISOC booth in the IGF Village Informal afterwork gatherings *in Geneva*: - Mix & Mash <https://www.isoc.ch/events/mix-mash>12 December, 18.15 - 20.00 - ISOC-CH & DigiGes <https://www.isoc.ch/events/afterwork-drinks-isoc-digiges-in-geneva> afterwork drinks, 12 January, 19.00 Series of workshops in the framework of the Beyond the Net project 'Implementing Privacy via Mass Encryption' in partnership with pEp Foundation: - Values of Internet Technologies - first discussion <https://www.isoc.ch/events/vit> 25 January, 10.00-16.00, *Biel/Bienne* Our next General Assembly will be at the end of March or in mid-April 2018 in Bern. We look forward to seeing many of our members at these events and to connect (formally and informally) with you on substantive matters that you may be interested to contribute to. All the best, Roxana --- Roxana Radu Chair, Internet Society-Switzerland -------ISOC-CH------ Website: http://www.isoc.ch/ Follow ISOC-CH on Twitter: ISOCSwitzerland <https://twitter.com/ISOCSwitzerland>

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[ISOC-CH Ann] Values of Internet Technology workshop series - Join us!
by Roxana Radu ISOC-CH 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Dear ISOC-CH members, Together with p≡p foundation, we are starting an 18-month long series of workshops as of January 2018 around the Values of Internet Technologies <https://www.isoc.ch/archives/3017> (VIT). This series of six workshops represents a platform for discussions and hands-on training to privacy, anonymity and security online. Concrete tech approaches will be presented and analyzed against bigger socio-political implications and the broader picture for each topic, with insights into current and upcoming Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Expert speakers and experienced trainers will propose scenarios and working solutions for policy as well as tech approaches to adopt privacy, respect anonymity and enhance security. Among the issues under investigation are the digital societal values and the technological specifications that can respond to the needs of modern society. Among the cross-cutting issues to be addressed, the workshops will look at the structure of new developments, e.g. how well are they able to interoperate, do they support federated development, are they decentralized, can they be used easily? The workshops will also examine how to strengthen Human Rights using certain technological approaches. The solutions proposed will draw on a wide range of expertise and will not rely on any single central infrastructure that users must adopt. Each workshop covers a different subject which we find important for how to design, implement and deploy current and future digital developments. The first workshop <https://www.isoc.ch/events/vit>, taking place on 25th of January in Biel/Bienne at Berner Fachhochschule (BFH), will focus on Decentralization. Privacy, trust and security are at stake ‒ in a pure technical sense as well as economically and socially. Decentralization is a significant feature for more agility, justice and resilience in our societies and their digital infrastructure. Expert speakers will elaborate on different aspects of the subject, followed by a hands-on session. Early registration (free of charge) is recommended: https://www.isoc.ch/events/vit The workshops are organized by Internet Society Switzerland (ISOC-CH) and p≡p Foundation in the framework of the project entitled 'Implementing Privacy via Mass Encryption', which received a 'Beyond the Net' grant from Internet Society. The first workshop in this series will be hosted by Berner Fachhochschule (BFH) and benefits from the support of Digitale Gesellschaft Switzerland (DigiGes) and CCC Switzerland (CCC-CH). The workshops are open to policy-makers, technologists, journalists, researchers, programmers, activists, students and interested users. We particularly encourage ISOC-CH members to participate and discuss with us. The agenda for the workshops will be prepared in close alignment with the demand-side, meaning that we need your presence and input! For us, this workshop series is a precious opportunity to hear from you, answer your questions and get feedback in terms of migration strategies for organizations, ease of use, ideas for specific features or other challenges that a resilient and future-proof Free and Open Source Software tech development can meet. Preliminary program: 1. Setting the scene for a digital future: What's important and how can it be achieved? 25th of January 2018 2. p≡p's Internet-Drafts and its implementations for digital communication technologies. Planned for April 2018 3. Human Rights and present / future ICT ‒ Why and how are they related? Planned for September 2018 4. How can digitalization mitigate current challenges of humanity? Planned for November 2018 5. Migration towards new and responsible IT ‒ Pathways for enterprises and public organizations. Planned for January 2019 6. "A network of networks" ‒ What are the most important requirements for spreading diverse and Human-Rights-solid Free and Open Source digital communication? Planned for April 2019 For more details, please visit: https://www.isoc.ch/events(@ISOCSwitzerland <https://twitter.com/ISOCSwitzerland>) We look forward to seeing many of you there on 25 January! --- Roxana Radu Chair, Internet Society-Switzerland -------ISOC-CH------ Website: http://www.isoc.ch/ Follow ISOC-CH on Twitter: ISOCSwitzerland <https://twitter.com/ISOCSwitzerland>

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[ISOC-CH Ann] Registration for Internet Governance Forum | DL: 27 Nov
by Roxana Radu ISOC-CH 25 Nov '17

25 Nov '17

Dear ISOC-CH members, The 12th edition of the Internet Governance Forum, an annual UN-driven forum for policy-shaping discussions around the future digital society, will be held for the first time in Geneva on 18-21 December (Palais de Nations). We invite you all to join and contribute to the discussions, which are structured in the following formats: - high-level and main sessions - workshops (for main themes, please check this link <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/493…> ) - open forums (with a special Digital Geneva track) - side events, including a highly diverse Day 0 (17 Dec) *To take part in the Forum, please register before 27 November via https <https://igf2017.swiss/>://igf2017.swiss <https://igf2017.swiss/>* *This applies also if you have a UN badge or you intend to attend one session/one day only. * For background information on the history of the Forum, please check out the blogpost written by Markus Kummer some time ago: https://www.isoc.ch/archives/2439. The schedule of the IGF is available in pdf here <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/422…> or in interactive forum here <https://igf2017.intgovforum.org>. ISOC-CH will be present there - more details will follow shortly. We look forward to seeing many of you there, Roxana --- Roxana Radu Chair, Internet Society-Switzerland -------ISOC-CH------ Website: http://www.isoc.ch/ Follow ISOC-CH on Twitter: ISOCSwitzerland <https://twitter.com/ISOCSwitzerland>

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[ISOC-CH Ann] FW: [Chapter-delegates] Privacy Policy and Personal Data / Email Opt-In - Next Step
by Richard Hill 06 Nov '17

06 Nov '17

Dear ISOC-CH members, Please take note of the message below and logon to your account to opt-in to the new privacy policy. Thanks and best, Richard > > > > From: Chapter-delegates > > [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces@elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Todd > > M. Tolbert > > Sent: jeudi, 2. novembre 2017 19:10 > > To: ISOC Chapter Delegates > > Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Privacy Policy and Personal Data / > > Email Opt-In - Next Step > > > > Good Day Delegates. > > > > It’s been a couple of months since this notification was sent out > > and > I wanted to follow up with you. First, let me say thank you for all > who joined Nancy and I on the information calls about our privacy > policy and next steps with our Re-Opt-In Campaign. If you missed the > sessions, we recorded them and you can find one of them at this LINK > (you will be taken to ISOC’s YouTube Channel to play this video). > > > > As noted in the below email and in those sessions, it’s time for us > to take our next steps and that is to start an Email Campaign to all > Individual Members to ask them to take action. The action and the > system capabilities are very simple. We’d like for each member to > explicitly opt-in to allowing Internet Society to maintain appropriate > person data and to opt-in for Internet Society to send informational > email correspondence. We will begin this email campaign early next > week and will send one reminder email per month through January to > those who have not made a selection. > > > > In January, we will review how well the campaign has been while > reporting out the numbers frequently between now and then. We will > then determine next steps based on the outcome of the campaign. Our > end goal is that by May of 2018 we can meet the GDPR mandates to > remove any data that does not have an explicit opt-in. > > > > Our ASK: It is in the best interest of all of us to make sure that > > we > can reach as many of our individual and chapter members as possible. > We would like for you to amplify this message in your chapter-based > channels as well. Please ask your members to look for the email we are > sending which include instructions on making these choices registered, > or to simply logon to https://portal.isoc.org and make their > selections there. > > > > Thank you again for your attention this. Should you have any > questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me directly. > > > > Have a great day! > > > > Sincerely, > > Todd > > > > > > > > From: Todd Tolbert <tolbert(a)isoc.org> > > Date: Monday, September 4, 2017 at 8:41 AM > > To: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates(a)elists.isoc.org> > > Subject: Notice: Privacy Policy and Personal Data / Email Opt-In > > > > Good Day Chapter Leaders, > > > > First of all, apologies for the lengthy email, but the topic > > requires a bit of background… > > > > Over the last nine months, a small focused team of ISOC Staff and > > our > General Counsel have been discussing the need of ISOC to update our > Privacy Policy. > > We looked at it from the perspective of maintaining personally > identifiable information (PII) of our members while balancing our > commitment to privacy in maintaining that data and adherence to > numerous privacy laws around the world. > > > > This presented us with an opportunity to review our data from the > perspective of where we obtained it, and if had we obtained consent > (opt-in) to have and use that data. > > We found that in many unintentional ways we were not living by the > standards we advocate for, and we were most likely not going to meet > the requirements of the EU GDPR and other laws in other countries > around the world. > > > > The main issues are: > > 1) Our Privacy Policy had been out of date for some time and does > not include up-to-date, best-of-breed standards that need to be met > for legal and advocacy reasons. > > 2) We had not received an implicit opt-in to send email to many > individuals in our database. > > 3) We have never asked for an implicit opt-in to hold and utilize > PII. > > 4) Where we had input non-member data for individuals, we have not > been tenacious about recording where the data came from (business > cards from meeting at events, etc). > > 5) We found that our methodology for opting OUT of emails or > cancelling membership and removing PII would not pass any current > legal review, including CAN-SPAM, CASL and the new GDPR (US Antispam > Law, Canadian Anti-Spam Law and European Commission General Data > Privacy Regulations). > > > > We have completed a re-write of our Privacy Policy to meet or exceed > many privacy laws and have published that statement of policy on 18 > August. To facilitate this new policy, we rewrote some areas of the > Membership Management Portal and the Email Preference Center and will > be rolling those out as soon as possible. > > > > Why is this important for ISOC? > > • Legal compliance - GDPR and likely other laws around the > world will require this at some point in the very near future. > > • Meeting our Ethical Data handling responsibilities as an > organizational citizen on the Internet > > • Laying the ground work and asking permissions to collect more > data about our relationships with members of all types so that we can > better service the needs of the community. > > > > And while not mission based, this work also gives us the opportunity > for cleaning up our database in preparation for a new Association > Management System (AMS) in 2018. > > > > The final step for ISOC is to follow GDPR standard by asking all > members to opt-in for email communication and opt-in to allowing ISOC > to maintain PII in our systems. The notification will start with the > roll-out of our new Membership Management Portal which will happen in > the next seven days. The first time a member logs in to an ISOC web > property (Connect, Inforum, Email Preference Center or the Membership > Management Portal) we will ask for this opt-in. After InterCommunity > 2017, we will start an active email campaign to request this re-opt-in > to all member email addresses in our database. > > > > At that time, we would like to hold some information sessions with > the chapters on the next steps with regards to the opt-in process. At > this point we wanted you to be aware of the newly published Privacy > Policy and the capabilities that will be available to all current > members, new members and non-members in our database. > > > > Thank you very much, > > Todd > > > > > > -- > > Todd M. Tolbert > > Chief Administrative Officer > > Internet Society > > 1775 Wiehle Avenue, Suite 201 > > Reston, VA 20190 > > E: tolbert(a)isoc.org > > Zoom.us: tolbert(a)isoc.org > > > > <smime.p7s>_______________________________________________ > > As an Internet Society Chapter Officer you are automatically > > subscribed to this list, which is regularly synchronized with the > > Internet Society Chapter Portal (AMS): https://portal.isoc.org >

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