[Chapter-delegates] Macedonia Chapter Application for Review

Wed Apr 19 18:02:46 PDT 2006

ISOC-AU is in support of the formation of the Macedonia Chapter.

Narelle Clark
Vice President
ISOC-AU (Australia)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org 
> [mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf 
> Of Terry Weigler
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:00 PM
> To: ISOC Chapter Delegates
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Macedonia Chapter Application for Review
> 
> 
> On behalf of the Membership Director, ISOC is submitting 
> Chapter applications to this mailing list to give you an 
> opportunity to comment on them. The Internet Society is most 
> interested to hear if there exist reasons why a Chapter 
> application should not be accepted but you're welcome to 
> offer statements of support, too. Later, we will send a 
> package of the proposed Bylaws and officers to this list, 
> again for you to comment.
> 
> Criteria to date for evaluating Chapter applications and 
> Bylaws has been pretty straightforward: unless there's a good 
> reason not to accept a proposed Chapter it is approved.  As 
> part of involving you in the process of reviewing these 
> materials ISOC is open to suggestions on additional criteria 
> you believe are relevant. Since you are already successful 
> operating Chapters, you are best positioned to comment on 
> what is likely to be successful.
> 
> The application is copied below for your consideration. If 
> you have any comments, questions or concerns, please respond 
> by 3 May 2006 to <chapters at isoc.org>
> 
> Regards,
> Terry Weigler
> ISOC Chapters Administration
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 
> CHAPTER APPLICATION
> 
> A. Proposed name of the Chapter
> 
> Internet Society - Macedonia (Internet opshtestvo - Makedonija - - ).
> 
>   B. Community of Interest the Chapter will to serve
> 
> Internet Society - Macedonia will serve the whole territory 
> of Republic of 
> Macedonia with population of 2.1 million citizens. Although 
> based in Skopje 
> it will be open for applications / members and local clubs 
> throughout the 
> country.
> 
>   C. Purpose and Scope of Chapter
> 
> This initiative is started from the Foundation Metamorphosis 
> an non-profit 
> institution that foster and support information society 
> initiatives in 
> Republic of Macedonia. Throughout our projects we have 
> created a list of 
> partner e-Riders, NGO leaders, donors, businesses and 
> governmental bodies 
> which are sensibilised about the citizen's perspective of the 
> information 
> society. The purpose of starting the Chapter would be to 
> institutionalize 
> the links between the information society workers in Macedonia and 
> proactively support the local internet initiatives. Possible 
> projects would 
> include raising public awareness / knowledge about the 
> Internet, supporting 
> local internet content, integration of e-riders in the local 
> communtiy, 
> projects connected with telecenters / Public Internet Access 
> Points and 
> other ICT related activities.
> 
> 
> D. Founding Members of the Chapter
> 
> Mustaf Jonuzi
>   South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Goce Armenski
> MSc / Assistant / IT / Natural Sciences Faculty, University 
> Sts. Cyril and 
> Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
> 
> Martin Nikolovski
> Editor, Computer Bild Macedonia Magazine
> 
> Igor Petreski
> Editor, PC Info Magazine
> 
> Gjoko Jovanovski
> Former BBS owner
> 
> Afrodita Gocevska
> Ein-Sof Corporation Sales Manager
> 
> Mijalche Gjorgiev
> MSc / Assistant / e-Business Department / Economic Faculty, 
> University Sts. 
> Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
> 
> Mirko Spiroski
> MEDIS Informatika, Former BBS owner
> 
> Julijana M.Teshija
> Editor, PC World Macedonia Magazine
> 
> Gordan Georgiev
> Forum Magazine Journalist
> 
> Ana Simonovska
> ICT Expert
> 
> Elica Perchinkova
> Inspector, Government's Agency for electronical communications
> 
> Zoran Janevski
> UNDP, National Strategy for Information Society Technical 
> Project Manager
> 
> Iskra Popova
> PhD, Mittuniversitetet - Sweden
> 
> Oliver B.Popov
> PhD, Mittuniversitetet - Sweden, Original initiator of ISOC 
> Macedonia Chapter
> 
> Dr. Vladimir Radevski
> Dean of the ICT Faculty, Van Der Stuhl University, Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Vasil Buraliev
> ICT Expert
> 
> Dragan Nikolich
> Head of C4 (computers, command, communications, control) of 
> the Macedonian 
> Defense Ministry
> 
> Igor Stamatovski
> ICT Expert
> 
> Ivo Verush
> ICT Expert
> 
> Igor Dimitrovski
> CIO of the Health Fund of Republic of Macedonia
> 
> Sofche Jovanovska
> CIO of the Macedonian Chamber of Commerce, member of the Government's 
> Commission for ICT, Presiding the Task Force that has drafted 
> the National 
> Strategy on Information Society
> 
> Darko Dukovski
> UNDP, Local e-governance and public access points, Assistant of the 
> Technical Manager of the Task Force that has drafted the 
> National Strategy 
> on Information Society
> 
> Stefan Atanasovski
> ICT Expert
> 
> Goran Verush
> ICT Expert
> 
> Marjan Mihajlov
> e-Rider, Foundation Metamorphosis (Open Society Institute Information 
> Programme - "Soros" spin-off)
> 
> Matilda Dimovska
> UNCP, ICT Project Manager
> 
> Zoran Andonovski
> Editor, Vreme Daily Newspaper, Member of the Board of 
> Foundation Metamorphosis
> 
> Nikolche V.Baleski
> Recommend by Oliver Popov
> 
> Atanas Mishev
> Institute for Informatics, Republic of Macedonia
> 
> Marijan Zakev
> BEST, Board of European Students in Technical Faculties
> 
> Svetlana Grncharoska
> ICT Expert
> 
> Pavle Angjelkovski
> ICT Expert
> 
> Zoran Gligorov
> ICT Expert
> 
> Aneta Buchkovska
> PhD, Electro-technical Faculty Skopje, University Sts. Cyril 
> and Methodius
> 
> Sasho Josimovski
> PhD, e-Business Department, Economic Faculty Skopje
> 
> Marijan Gushev
> PhD, Natural Sciences Faculty, University Sts. Cyril and Methodius
> 
> Aleksandar Misevski
> ICT Expert
> 
> Veni Markovski
> ISOC Bulgaria Chapter President, One of the initiators for 
> the formation of 
> the Macedonian Chapter
> 
> Jaumin Ajdari
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Mentor Hamiti
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Arif Selami
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Rijad Abdullai
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Xhemal Zenuni
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Gent Ismaili
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Bujar Raufi
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Florije Shabani
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Mentor Emini
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Sadat Rexhepi
> South-Eastern University - Tetovo, Macedonia
> 
> Bardil Jashari
> President of Foundation Metamorphosis
> 
> Nikola Mickoski
> Project assistant, Foundation Metamorphosis
> 
> Filip Stojanovski
> Program Officer, Foundation Metamorphosis
> 
> Bisera Taric
> Project Assistant, Foundation Metamorphosis
> 
> Ana Trpovska
> Project Assistant, Foundation Metamorphosis
> 
> Jovan Petrov
> Member of the Board of Foundation Metamorphosis
> 
> Jordanka Petrushevska
> e-Rider, Foundation Metamorphosis
> 
> Danilo Gligorovski
> PhD, Q2S, NTNU, Norway
> 
> 
> E. List of Supporters
> 
> Foundation Open Society Institute - Macedonia, Government's 
> Agency for 
> Information Society, NGO Support Centers, Faculties, 
> Association for Open 
> Source Software, and other ICT NGO's in Republic of Macedonia.
> 
> 
> F. List of Requirements
> 
> Our organizational design is that the Chapter would function 
> as an unit 
> inside Foundation Metamorphosis. If this kind of setup is 
> possible then no 
> special documentation and fees are needed. If the Chapter is 
> registered as 
> a separate NGO then a statute of the international 
> organization as well as 
> a recommendation would be needed for local court registration 
> - as well as 
> a sum of money needed for account registration and state 
> fees. This process 
> would last for 1-2 months. If the Chapter is inside the 
> Foundation there 
> are no obstacles to start the application process to ISOC right now.
> 
> G. Additional Information
> 
> Foundation Metamorphosis is spin-off of the Foundation Open Society 
> Institute - Macedonia  (http://www.soros.org.mk) and it inherits and 
> implement it's Information Program. It employs directly and 
> per project 
> basis about 10 IT & NGO experts. Foundation Metamorphosis 
> (http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk) is one of the partners 
> (together with the 
> Government's Commission for information technology 
> (www.kit.gov.mk)  and 
> UNDP) of the process "National Strategy and Action Plan for 
> Information 
> Society". This project is in its final phase - the documents 
> have been 
> drafted and now they are facing Government procedure. During 
> this process 
> we have formed Overcoming the Digital Divide Focus Group of 
> ICT NGO's and 
> ICT-media as well as partnered with the experts that are part of the 
> Strategy Task Force. We have the unique opportunity to gather the key 
> players of the Macedonian Internet Society with the formation 
> of the local 
> Chapter. Foundation Metamorphosis together with MDW/USAID is 
> starting to 
> implement the project for e-municipalities that is one of the 
> key parts of 
> the new National Strategy. The project also covers local 
> e-riders for the 
> municipalities as well as supporting Public Internet Access Points. 
> Therefore we think that our scope of work and engagements 
> laid out coincide 
> with the initiative for Local Chapter and that's why we would 
> like to apply.
> 
> H. Your Contact Information
> 
> Foundation Metamorphosis
> Naum Naumovski Borce 88-a
> 1000 Skopje
> Republic of Macedonia
> Tel. +389 2 3109 325, 3130 737
> Fax. +389 2 3225 206
> Email: info at metamorphosis.org.mk
> Web: http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk
> Contact person: Nikolche Mickoski
> Contact person's email: nikola at metamorphosis.org.mk
> Contact person's phone: +389 2 3109 325
> 
> 
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