[Chapter-delegates] Macedonia Chapter Application for Review

Thu Apr 20 09:22:19 PDT 2006

As one of the newer chapters, ISOC Serbia and Montenegro Chapter is extending 
it's great pleasure to be in great ISOC family. We would be glad to be 
contacted by other Chapter leaders and that we have cooperation in every way. 

We are very glad that proces of founding ISOC Macedonia Chapter has been 
initiated. We wish them all success and we are giving them our full support.

Both Serbia and Montenegro are former Yugoslav republics. Today we are a new 
country under name Serbia and Montenegro, just as Macedonia is a new 
independent country, and there is no dispute about the name. 
WELCOME MACEDONIA !!!

Best regards to Veni, for who I think that he has contributed very much for 
this initiative to form a chapter in Macedonia.

With best regards to everybody,
Prof. Dr MILE Vasiljevic
National Director of ISOC Serbia and Montenegro
___________________________________________________________________
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:00, Terry Weigler wrote:
> 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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