Dear Members,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><br>We cordially invite you to the ISOC-CH annual General Assembly 2013, taking place on Friday, 8th of March, at the University of Bern.<br><br> <a href="http://www.isoc.ch/events/annual-general-assembly-2013" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.ch/events/annual-general-assembly-2013</a><br>
<br><br>Around the official part of the GA, we offer an interesting framework program:<br><br><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">"WCIT digest”</span> <br>
</div><br>with <b>Richard Hill</b> (former Senior Member of the ITU Secretariat), <b>Markus Kummer</b> (Vice President Public Policy of the Internet Society) and possibly an official representative from the Swiss Government (OFCOM) is scheduled for the late afternoon.<br>
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</span><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">"Celebrating the </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">International </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#666666;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Women Day”</span><br>
</div><br>with <b>Monique Morrow</b> (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 <i>"Women leaders in the Internet”</i>, followed by a video-message from <b>Lynn St. Amour</b> (President and CEO of the Internet Society).<br>
<br>---<br><br>This event consists of two parts with registration for each part separately.<br>
<br><u>Part 1</u><br><br>15:45 Door Opening<br>16:00 - 17:30 WCIT-Digest (to be confirmed)<br>17:30 - 18:00 Coffee Break<br><br><u>Part 2</u><br><br>18:00 - 18:30 Keynote by Monique Morrow / Video-Greetings from Lynn St. Amour<br>
18:30 - 20:30 General Assembly (<a href="http://www.isoc.ch/agenda-general-assembly-2013" target="_blank">official part</a>)<br>20:30 - 21:30 Apéro<br><br><p>Please find more information, updates and registration on:<br>
</p> <a href="http://www.isoc.ch/events/annual-general-assembly-2013" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.ch/events/annual-general-assembly-2013</a><br><br><br>Lots of thanks to our host (University of Bern, IT department)!<br>
<br>We are looking forward to meeting you at the General Assembly!<br><br>All the best,<br> ISOC-CH Board<br><br>---<br><p><u><b>Further information related to the official part of the General Assembly</b></u><br>
</p><p><u>Agenda:</u><br></p><ul><li>The (tentative) agenda is published on: <a href="http://www.isoc.ch/agenda-general-assembly-2013" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.ch/agenda-general-assembly-2013</a><br></li><li>According to our statutes every member has the right to propose additional <span>agenda</span> items by <span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:#222222;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">16 February 2013</span> (20 days before the GA). If you want to make use of this opportunity, please send your proposal to <<a href="mailto:board@isoc.ch" target="_blank">board@isoc.ch</a>> and include:<br>
</li><ul><li>Description / background of the topic for discussion</li><li><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>Is this item subject to vote (yes/no)?</li><li>Estimation on time required for discussion</li><li>Name(s) of the proponent(s)</li>
</ul><li>Please be aware of that the <span>agenda</span> for the GA is already rather full.<br></li></ul><u>Statutes:</u><br><ul><li>We have informed you already earlier about the proposed statutes changes, which are discussed on <a href="http://lists.isoc.ch/mailman/listinfo/statutes" target="_blank">http://lists.isoc.ch/mailman/listinfo/statutes</a><br>
</li><li>Please find the current statutes (and a version containing the change requests currently proposed) on: <a href="http://www.isoc.ch/about/bylaws" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.ch/about/bylaws</a><br></li><li><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:#222222;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Further change requests to our statutes are to be submitted to <<a href="mailto:statutes@lists.isoc.ch" target="_blank">statutes@lists.isoc.ch</a>> by </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:#222222;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">16 February 2013</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:#222222;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">. Only Change Requests made by Feb 16th will be be voted on. </span>In particular,<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:#222222;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> change requests to the statutes made during the GA will not be voted on.</span></li>
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<br></div>--<br><br><a href="http://ucom.ch/" target="_blank">http://ucom.ch/</a><br>Tech Consulting for Internet Technology<br><br>
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