Dear Members Please be informed about the following updates on our annual General Assembly 2013: 1. The final agenda (official part) is now available on: http://www.isoc.ch/agenda-general-assembly-2013 Note: - Any further input material will be linked from this page as it gets ready. 2. The final proposal for the Statutes Changes is available on http://www.isoc.ch/about/bylaws Notes: - Those Change Requests highlighted with yellow color were controversial in the discussion that took place ahead. All the Change Requests in blue color are proposed as consensus (i.e. no objections). - Change Requests for statutes were be submitted by 16 February 2013. We will only vote on these Change Requests that were received and published in time. Change Requests to the statutes made during the GA will not be voted on. 3. Cisco <http://www.cisco.ch> will sponsor the Apéro taking place after the GA. Thanks a lot! 4. A "WCIT Digest" panel discussion will take place before the GA (15:30--17:30). http://www.isoc.ch/events/wcit-digest [We are still looking for a sponsor (ca. 1000 CHF).] 5. For those of you who have not registered yet, please do so via the event page ASAP: http://www.isoc.ch/events/annual-general-assembly-2013 Looking forward to meeting you in Bern! cheers, Bernie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bernie Hoeneisen <vice-chair-internal@isoc.ch> Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:16 PM Subject: Invitation to General Assembly 2013 (8 March in Bern) To: announcements@lists.isoc.ch Dear Members, We cordially invite you to the ISOC-CH annual General Assembly 2013, taking place on Friday, 8th of March, at the University of Bern. http://www.isoc.ch/events/annual-general-assembly-2013 Around the official part of the GA, we offer an interesting framework program: "WCIT digest” with *Richard Hill* (former Senior Member of the ITU Secretariat), *Markus Kummer* (Vice President Public Policy of the Internet Society) and possibly an official representative from the Swiss Government (OFCOM) is scheduled for the late afternoon. "Celebrating the International Women Day” with *Monique Morrow* (Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems and chair-women of the ITU Joint Coordination Activity on Cloud Computing) who will give a keynote speech on *"Women leaders in the Internet”*, followed by a video-message from *Lynn St. Amour* (President and CEO of the Internet Society). --- This event consists of two parts with registration for each part separately. *Part 1* 15:45 Door Opening 16:00 - 17:30 WCIT-Digest (to be confirmed) 17:30 - 18:00 Coffee Break *Part 2* 18:00 - 18:30 Keynote by Monique Morrow / Video-Greetings from Lynn St. Amour 18:30 - 20:30 General Assembly (official part<http://www.isoc.ch/agenda-general-assembly-2013> ) 20:30 - 21:30 Apéro Please find more information, updates and registration on: http://www.isoc.ch/events/annual-general-assembly-2013 Lots of thanks to our host (University of Bern, IT department)! --- *Further information related to the official part of the General Assembly* *Agenda:* - The (tentative) agenda is published on: http://www.isoc.ch/agenda-general-assembly-2013 - According to our statutes every member has the right to propose additional agenda items by 16 February 2013 (20 days before the GA). If you want to make use of this opportunity, please send your proposal to < board@isoc.ch> and include: - Description / background of the topic for discussion - Is this item subject to vote (yes/no)? - Estimation on time required for discussion - Name(s) of the proponent(s) - Please be aware of that the agenda for the GA is already rather full. *Statutes:* - We have informed you already earlier about the proposed statutes changes, which are discussed on http://lists.isoc.ch/mailman/listinfo/statutes - Please find the current statutes (and a version containing the change requests currently proposed) on: http://www.isoc.ch/about/bylaws - Further change requests to our statutes are to be submitted to < statutes@lists.isoc.ch> by 16 February 2013. Only Change Requests made by Feb 16th will be be voted on. In particular, change requests to the statutes made during the GA will not be voted on. -- http://ucom.ch/ Tech Consulting for Internet Technology