Indeed the recent developments in the Internet Society of removing valuable staff who worked with community members is very disheartening. Raj's contribution in building the ISOC community in APAC and At large is invaluable. He has always been committed and working with community members and is well respected by all of us. Therefore his removal along with people like Rinalia is very shocking. Its sad to see the people who worked with the community to build the ISOC brand and community in the region are being let go in this manner. Regards, Amrita Delhi Chapter On Wed, 27 Sept 2023 at 11:06, Winthrop Yu via APAC-Discuss < apac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> wrote:

Thank you for making an official announcement Christine. I had emailed this email list twice last week to inquire why the APAC weekly update did not make any mention of ISOC's termination of Raj Singh; unfortunately both my emails were blocked as "spam". Perhaps something for IT/tech to look into, but be that as it may ...

Raj will be sorely missed by the Chapters and the IG Community at large. Even as he entered the the IG space as PICISOC and then as one of the founders of APRALO [list cc'ed above] he already brought with him a wealth of professional expertise and experience; and Raj's decade and a half with ISOC can only have augmented this. But perhaps even more importantly, Raj saw and interacted with us (Chapters and individuals) as we were on the ground. Anyone could bring up any matter with Raj, ask him a straight question and you'd get a straight answer, no evasions, obfuscations or corpo-speak. When Raj made a commitment, you know he would go to bat for the Chapter.

Indeed a loss for ISOC. Yet perhaps we will see Raj again somewhere else in the IG space, hopefully sometime soon.

WYn PH

On 27 Sep 2023 3:18 AM, Christine Saegesser wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

Earlier this month, the Internet Society made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce (across regions and teams). Most of you are probably following the related discussion on the chapter-delegates list on this. As mentioned by Andrew there, this decision was made, with careful consideration, to ensure the Internet Society remains on a solid financial footing as we increase our fundraising efforts to support our vital work around the world.

Through this period of transition, we remain committed to working closely with our community, including our chapters and special interest groups, to carry out our work to build, promote and defend the Internet. Our chapter support team is not impacted and we will continue to be there for all of you as usual to engage our community and provide the support it needs to work towards our vision of an Internet for everyone.

If you were working on any projects affected by these changes, please let us know by sending an e-mail to chapter-support@isoc.org so we can together discuss the continuation of this work.

Best,

Christine

Christine Saegesser Baethge, Sr. Director Chapters and Special Interest Groups saegesser@isoc.org | Twitter: ch_saebae

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