The Congress broke out into groups to discuss the strategy paper. The following key points emerged. There can be a global strategy with local implementation and regional planning and funding through collaboration. The Asia-Pacific hub is proving to be too big in practice. The Congress is responsible for policy.
Implementation is the responsibility of member institutes.
Trustees should not be passengers, but willing and wishing to contribute. The doubts were not so much those of strategy because many parts of the initial strategy had been achieved in the last ten years. It was a question of how to develop next. From a regulatory role and facilitating networks, we need to move on to have a global identity and create value for members through business development which should be possible using the World Wide Web. We must avoid the danger of a Commonwealth predominance and preoccupation with matrices.