Welcome to ITS Digital Dispatch, the next generation membership bulletin of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) in which we invite submissions of brief news items (including details of upcoming ITS events and reports of recent past events of potential interest to our members) as well as opinion pieces on all manner of subjects spanning the field of ICT. No fixed publication schedule has yet been determined and it remains entirely possible that successive issues of ITS Digital Dispatch will be published on a periodic, but less than fixed basis, as circumstances warrant. All opinions expressed in this communication are those of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of ITS.  Images used are believed either to be in the public domain or to be  covered by a fair use exception.