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  • The Internet community has lost one of our true innovators and pioneers.  Ray Tomlinson, best known as the inventor of sending email over a computer network and choosing the @ sign, passed away this weekend.  Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.  Ray was an incredible contributor to the Internet and was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012 for his many achievements.

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    Date published 06 March 2016

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  • Welcome Mark Buell, the Internet Society's new Regional Bureau Director for North America
    In the past few years, the Internet Society has become an increasingly international and multicultural organization. We have increased the diversity and decentralization of our staff and currently have people based in 21 different countries, with 20 staff members working in our five regional teams.These regional teams, or bureaus as we call them, are key in our efforts to increase our work on the ground by increasing our abilities to better understand local and regional issues and strengthening partnerships with local and regional actors to improve engagement.The Regional Bureau Director for...
    Date published 14 April 2016
    Mr. Raúl Echeberría
    Institutional, Chapters & Members
  • Gender Parity Starts with the Internet
    Today, on International Women’s Day, I want to acknowledge the many contributions made by women to the development and growth of the Internet. I am also asking others to join me in the Internet Society’s effort to “Shine the Light” on women who use the Internet to innovate and make a difference --in their families, in their communities and for themselves. Women around the world have made tremendous advances socially, economically and politically, but progress towards gender parity will be stunted if we do not increase the number of women who have access to the one technology that has...
    Date published 08 March 2016
    Ms. Kathryn Brown
    Institutional
  • Remembering Ray Tomlinson

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    The Internet community has lost one of our true innovators and pioneers.  Ray Tomlinson, best known as the inventor of sending email over a computer network and choosing the @ sign, passed away this weekend.  Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.  Ray was an incredible contributor to the Internet and was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012 for his many achievements.Ray's breadth of work speaks for itself.  You can read more on the Internet Hall of Fame website.In addition, here are Ray's own words about his career:We join with our community...
    Date published 06 March 2016
    Ms. Kathryn Brown
    Institutional
  • 2016: Confronting the Promise and the Challenge of a Global, Open Internet: Connection AND Security
    Happy New Year to all!2015 was a big year for the Internet Society. The graphic we published earlier this week provides only a glimpse of the hours, effort and impact of our collective work. ISOC has worked tirelessly to strengthen its community and organize itself through the power and reach of the Internet. We have advanced Internet technology around the world while upholding the principles we cherish; and we have advocated--and won--at least for an Internet minute-- the argument that a multistakeholder, distributed model of Internet governance is the right means of achieving the global and...
    Date published 05 January 2016
    Ms. Kathryn Brown
    Institutional
  • Announcing the Internet Society 2016 Action Plan
    I am pleased that the Internet Society 2016 Action Plan has been approved by our Board of Trustees at a meeting last weekend in Yokohama. The 2016 Plan is the result of discussions by the staff and the Board with ongoing input from our Chapters and Members. After engaging, through Community Forums, InterCommunity, regular Advisory and Community meetings and on our ongoing digital channels and listening to the voices of ISOC, we present, here, what we believe are the most urgent priorities facing the Internet today. As you read through the plan, you will see that we believe we must focus on...
    Date published 05 November 2015
    Ms. Kathryn Brown
    Institutional