© Internet Society / Shoot the Earth / Nyani Quarmyne
It's important to note that beyond the key investment areas, there are also significant activities to help support our mission that are taking place across the organization.
Revenue and Resource Development Plans
Revenue and resource plans focus on thoughtful, aggressive development of value to current and new members—particularly those who have strong interests in Internet policy and technology—and to organizational stakeholders that are currently underrepresented in the Internet Society memberships in such areas as ecommerce, banking, and universities.
Deployment and Operationalization
The Deploy360 Programme works with the first adopter community to leverage their knowledge of new technology deployment and create resources that are easy to understand and quickly actionable by the greater operations community to deploy and operationalize key Internet technologies including IPv6 and DNSSEC.
Internet Leadership
Internet Leadership builds on the Internet Society’s tradition of fostering global Internet leadership capacity, and extends, designs, and builds core assets that support overall Internet Society efforts to be the trusted and sought after resource for Internet information and thought leadership.
Public Policy
The Public Policy department will develop and deliver plans to engage key policy-oriented organizations and communities, with the aims of advancing the Internet model and influencing Internet governance, advancing policies that build on the Internet model, and promoting the interests of Internet users.
Strategic Development Programmes
Strategic Development programmes strengthen the Internet Society’s effectiveness in achieving a ubiquitous, reliable, and sustainable Internet in developing countries that is on par with the rest of the world and will propel their broader aspirations in social and economic development.
Network Confidence (Security, Privacy, Trust & Identity)
Network Confidence efforts aim to engender confidence in an Internet that provides channels for secure, reliable, private, communication between entities, which can be clearly authenticated in a mutually understood manner, through three primary areas of work:
- Identity: Managing Trust Relationships
- Network Architecture and Trust: Emerging Research
- Operationalizing Trust: Strengthening the Current Internet Model
20 Year Anniversary and Global INET
A comprehensive programme will recognize the Internet Society’s 20th anniversary, advance key Internet Society priorities, highlight pioneers who have been instrumental to the success of the Internet and the Internet Society, and bring attention to topics critical to the long-term health and viability of the Internet over the next 20 years. A key component of this effort will be the 2 1/2 day Global INET on 22-24 April 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland, which will serve as the culmination of several 20th anniversary initiatives and the launching point for others.
Open Internet Standards
Promoting understanding of and involvement in the development and use of open Internet standards, across technical and policy communities, in the developed and developing world.