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International Digital Membership
FISA aims to facilitate the development of international links between FISA-affiliated aero- and astrophilatelic societies.
FISA supports the International Digital Membership project (I.D.M.), which will give members of any FISA affiliated society the opportunity to join another FISA affiliated society easily and at a low cost, and thus gain access to the digital services offered by other FISA affiliated societies.
The benefits are the development of communication between philatelists and the simplicity of a membership with simple/single payment.
What is I.D.M. ?
- Develop international links between FISA affiliated aero- and astrophilatelic societies
- Full access to the websites
- Receive the bulletins (digital)
- Participation to Zoom meetings
- Participation to auctions/sales (buy or sell)
Key principles
- Offer to national members of association A [ Including members of countries without FISA affiliated association (e.g. Romania, ….) ] the possibility to have access to the digital services offered by associations B, C….
- Possible by the option “International Digital Membership” I.D.M.-fee
- I.D.M-fee has been set at 8 €/$ for up to THREE selected societies (association B, C,….)
- I.D.M-fees are collected by association A together, with the fees for association A (= single fee payment)
- Association A communicates the list (name, email) of members having selected the I.D.M. option to association B, C….
- Associations B, C… offer the equivalent options to their national members
Benefits
- Establish relations and fruitful communication among aero- and astrophilatelists
- Single payment means simplicity for members
- Simple fee collection
Economics
- Each society keeps the extra fees collected
- A review of financial impact will be conducted end of 2025 (additional IDM fees collected by association A = X, versus loss of fees = Y currently paid by international members of association A)
- We expect X to be greater than Y, so that I.D.M. will be profitable for all FISA member associations.
First societies to start I.D.M.
The following TEN societies have already confirmed that they are prepared to start with an I.D.M. in 2025:
- American Air Mail Society
- Association Astrophilatélique de France
- Associazione Italiana Astrofilatelia
- Australian Airmail Society
- Belgian Philatelic Society Cosmos
- Canadian Airmail Society
- Cercle Aérophilatélique Français
- Gesellschaft der Weltall-Philatelisten
- Indian Air Mail Society
- Philatelic-Club Swissair
- Zeppelinpost e.V.
Next step
Each member association of FISA to inform formally the Secr. General before November 30th 2024, if they agree with I.D.M. principles, and are willing to participate in order to enable I.D.M. program participating associations to include this option in their call for 2025 fees.
© 2025 - FISA & sb
© 2025 - FISA & sb