The Internet has matured and evolved over the past 20 years from a "nascent technology" with imagined—but then unknown—potential to the world-wide platform for connection, collaboration, community and commerce that it is today. We face, as we are all aware, new challenges in ensuring that the principles that got us here remain central to the continuing evolution of the Internet. We are committed, with the same passion we have always shown, to meet these challenges head on. 

To be successful we must be focused, disciplined and organized in a way that leverages all of our expertise, talent and accumulated knowledge. We must be a cohesive team, ready to work together, enlist allies, tell our story and engage with everyone with a stake in an open, secure, global network of networks.

We have committed to achieving three priorities:

#1. Maintaining and strengthening multi-stakeholder processes both

globally and locally. 

#2. Promoting robustness and resiliency of Internet security and privacy

through technology standards and deployment; and

#3. Advancing the deployment of core Internet infrastructure and

evolution of technology to ensure the sustainability and reliability of

the Internet. 

To better leverage our talent, expertise and budget assets to meet these objectives, we will be streamlining our business case and realigning a number of our functions and people. 

Effective Monday, March 17, 2014:

We will refocus our organizational structure to ensure responsibility and accountability for achieving our priorities by:

1. Establishing an office of Regional Engagement* at the executive level; 

2. Realigning our engagement, messaging and communications functions into one integrated office; 

3. Consolidating the technical work of the organization into the Chief Internet Technical Office; 

4. Strengthening our Global Policy Office; 

5. Consolidating our business, administrative and financial functions in the Finance Office; 

6. Positioning the economist as a shared asset; 

These changes will require each of us to demonstrate both the high professional commitment we have to the overall mission of ISOC as well as patience, openness to change and willingness to "exercise new muscles" to adapt to a more integrated approach to doing our work. 

Thank you.

Kathy

President and Chief Executive Officer