Internal rules of the #IWAS association 

in addition to the provisions of the Bylaws

Article 1 - Membership and contact details.

The #IWAS association is made up of the following members:

Founding members ;

Active members ;

Members Organizations

Organizations and professionals/individual experts wishing to contribute to the association's objectives can contact the Chairman to discuss their requirements. 

By attending or logging on to General and Extraordinary Meetings, online Workgroups and Seminars, Active members can retrieve their contact details from each other.

The Association is not required to distribute contact details or reveal the identity of any individual. 

It is useful to give your contact details and take those of others to be able to vote by proxy. There is no obligation to share your contact details. 

Article 2 - Contributions 

Honorary members (Godparents) do not pay membership fees (unless they decide otherwise of their own free will).

Active members pay an annual membership fee of 1€.

Organizational Members are required to pay an annual fee of €300, which entitles them to register three people.

Membership fees must be paid via HelloAsso 

Any membership fee paid to the association is definitively acquired. No refund will be made in the event of resignation, exclusion or death of a member during the year.

Article 3 - Approval of new members

The #IWAS association may welcome new members at any time by individual invitation from the President.

Each potential Active Member detected by other Active Members [or by Friends of #IWAS], must be presented to the President. This identification is made on the basis of skills specific to the fields dealt with and innovation in the association's precise objectives. Reasons need not be given for refusal of admission.

Experts in these fields wishing to contribute to the association's objectives: 

Data Protection, Data Science, psychology of traumatic dissociation, treatment of traumatic dissociation, victimology and victim advocacy, social work, specific work on sexual violence, sociology, early childhood professions, pediatrics, child psychiatry, child psychology, forensic medicine, care and resilience professions, investigation and netprofiling professions, OSINT, criminology and risk analysis methodology, digital innovation, cybersecurity, physical, methodological and digital security, communication, entrepreneurship, finance, human resources and any profession that proves useful to the association's objectives. 

See the Expert membership page of the website.

All new members must read the WELCOME PACK documents (.zip), and familiarize themselves with the #IWAS positions web page. 

He/she is encouraged to create a LinkedIn account and to collect information on the topics as well as to share it with Members and to repost posts from the official #IWAS pages.

He/she can join the #IWAS WhatsApp and DISCORD community, where special discussion groups on each project are listed.

He or she is invited to present to the association's active members the new angle they bring to the problem of pedo and nipiocriminality in the year he or she joins.

Members can propose opportunities for written and oral contributions, particularly on a European and international scale. 

To speak on behalf of #IWAS, you must have received media training and be invited by the President. 

Article 5 - Working groups

The association offers digital resources enabling it to operate at low cost. It operates in France and internationally. Seminars take a hybrid form: in French, in English in a rented room in Paris and broadcast on the Internet. 

The default language for Working Groups is English, to enable projects to be carried out internationally. Minutes and Replays are also in English wherever possible.

Active Members benefit from international contacts with experts in the various specialties that #IWAS brings together.

Working and Reflection Groups take place every Zoom and are formed around a Leader who drives forward the projects indicated on the association's website. The President is responsible for ensuring that these discussions and activities respect the legal framework, and must be kept informed by means of Minutes.

Leaders can propose themselves to lead new topics and innovations during the Seminars and General/Extraordinary Meetings held regularly in a Paris venue in hybrid mode.

The exchanges that #IWAS enables between external stakeholders and the public/private/non-profit ecosystem are traced for legal reasons and preferably go through the Chairman's mailbox. Leaders send him any correspondence they wish, or copy him on e-mails validated together beforehand. These subjects, which are highly complex in themselves and from a legal point of view, will be handled with the utmost care. 

#IWAS also provides advice to Active Members on secure digital tools.

Article 6 - Indirect contribution to financial resources

The Association's Active Members contribute above all intellectually to the Association by self-training, sharing, thinking together and producing project deliverables.

Donations from corporate bodies and individuals are the main source of funding for association expenses.

Active members of the Association may also contribute:

1. producing free downloadable publications in the name of the Association, newsletters, briefs, publications, 

2. by helping to organize paying events (free donation) or participating in events that pay for the #IWAS Association, debates, courses and conferences

3. helping to sell goodies online (reception, storage, packaging, dispatch), 

4. by providing paid online sessions (free donation) on pedocriminal risk analysis methodology, on the security standard, on the new economic players to be put in place, on the technological innovations structuring #IWAS. 

They are invited to suggest at General Meetings any other resources authorized by laws and regulations.

Article 6 - Modification of the internal regulations

The present by-laws may be amended by the Ordinary General Meeting by a simple majority of members.