Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ACN 076 406 801
Held at 18:45 hrs on Monday 4th December 2000 in the Training Room of the State Library Building, Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Kate Lance was elected Chairperson.
The Chairperson noted that, as 16 current members of the Society were present and 35 valid proxies, there was a quorum present for the meeting. The Chairperson welcomed all those in attendance. The Chairperson noted the items on the agenda to those present.
Apologies: David Thompson, Peter Gerrand, Simon Hackett, Hugh Irvine, George Michaelson
Proposal that Notice of AGM has been read
Proposed by Kate Lance; seconded by Leni Mayo. Carried Unanimously.
Leni Mayo is appointed Returning Officer. The Returning Officer then outlined the voting procedures for voting and the conduct of the ballot.
Voting took place by way of ballot in respect of the items of ordinary business as listed in the Notice of AGM 2000. 35 proxies were presented and validated. Voting closed at 7:00pm.
The Chairperson noted that the Annual Reports and Accounts are available on the Society's web pages at: http://www.isoc-au.org.au/AGM2000/FY00/.
The motion in respect of the Adoption of the Accounts and Reports was carried.
After the completion of counting of votes, Mr Mayo declared the following candidates to be duly elected:
The Board of Directors is now currently composed of the following people:
The Chairperson then thanked Anthony Healey, who departed as Director earlier in the year.
Kate Lance spoke briefly on the events of the Year. It had been a very successful one in terms of both an increase in membership and in terms of the levels of sponsorship. The Society has also had a higher media profile. Dr Lance explained that Tony Hill, the Executive Director of the society, had been full time since the end of February. He has worked extremely hard and has taken a lot of pressure off the Directors in terms of the running of the Society and had worked successfully to increase the levels of sponsorship substantially.
During the year, the Society had been involved in responding to a number of government submissions, which appeared to be valuable and stood the Society in good stead. A lot of work had also gone in to developing possible models and submission for Co-operative Research Centres with emphasis on users of the Internet. A number of directors had also attended the last INET conference in Yokohama and were active in a number of other associated activities.
Dr Lance reported that the constitutional amendments made in respect of membership last year had resulted in the Society's ability to bring on board six organisational members.
A Directors' strategy meeting had been held in October in conjunction with our first Industry Advisory Council meeting. This was a useful exercise in terms of where we were and where we hope to be going. The process is not finished as yet but was in itself valuable in terms of maintaining the direction of the Society.
Dr Lance thanked the directors for their efforts during the year and particularly thanked George Michaelson, the Treasurer, who persevered over the year with GST and new accounting systems. Further thanks went to Joanne Davis for the work that went in to the logos on the T-Shirts.
Tony Hill has circulated a written annual report of activities and indicated that he had received some good feedback about it. Mr Hill expressed his appreciation for the support given to him by the directors and expressed particular thanks to Anthony Healey, who resigned as a director earlier in the year because of work commitments.
Mr Hill then went on to speak to the Activity Report submitted to members at the beginning of the month. Mr Hill noted that Privacy was becoming a hot issue, possibly to become the number one domestic issue; and bandwidth remains a major topic of concern and debate. Mr Hill noted that the domain name issues and the Society's input into the creation and development of auDA went well.
Mr Hill noted that the Strategic Plan had been reviewed over the period of the strategic retreat. Mr Hill indicated that this is part of the process as the plan is a living document.
Mr Hill referred to the discussion of the performance indicators in the activity report. He noted that whilst the Society had made a significant contribution to the setting up of auDA there was still more work to be done. Mr Hill pointed out that efforts to get the "BSA" provisions amended, that these efforts were unsuccessful, but expressed the view that ISOC-AU had also contributed significantly in ensuring that a number of possible further actions had not been taken in this field.
Mr Hill expressed the view that the Society's reputation is now a lot higher than it was 12 - 18 months ago. Funding levels had increased and administration was far more efficient than it used to be. Organisational membership was up to six members from nothing and the push on enterprise membership had started well.
It was RESOLVED that the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting for 1999 be accepted.
Kate Lance gave thanks to all of the Society's sponsors and supporters, including Telstra, Cisco, connect.com.au, Perth Internet, Siemens Ltd, Melbourne IT, ANU, AUUG, Phillips Fox Lawyers, Deacons, The State Library of Victoria and RatNet Multimedia for the webcast.
Meeting closed at approximately 7:50pm.
Kate Lance
President, ISOC-AU