[Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in Belgrade, Serbia

[Norbert Klein]

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From: chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org
[mailto:chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org] On Behalf Of Sabrina
Wilmot
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:29 AM
To: Chapter Delegates
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in
Belgrade,Serbia

Dear Colleagues,

The following application for a Chapter in Belgrade, Serbia, has been 
received. It is being sent to this list for peer comment and review.

Please note that the Chapter is not yet formed and has not officially
been recognized by ISOC.

If there are people on this list that know the individuals proposing to
establish the Chapter, feedback is especially welcome.

The period allowed for comments is 2 weeks and the deadline is 1st April 
2008.

Please do not hesitate to contact me on or off list.

Best regards,
Sabrina Wilmot
ISOC

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Dear Sabrina, dear Colleagues,

when I was in Serbia in April last year - I was born there - I had a chance to 
participate in one of the preparatory meetings for the creation of an ISOC 
chapter there. The meeting was held at the place of Vedran Vučić, president 
of the board of the Linux Center in Belgrade (his name is in position 1 of 
the list of founding members of the Internet Society Chapter of Serbia, which 
was attached to your mail). I know also Zoran Pantelić (No. 12), and of 
course – through ICANN - Slobodan Marković (No. 21) and the  ISOC board 
member Désirée Željka Milošević (No. 3).

I attach a picture I took at this meeting, with Désirée, Vedran, and Zoran  (I 
do not remember the fourth person's name). The article of Vedran Vučić: “Role 
of NGOs in use and design of free software in developing countries” 

http://numenor.lib.uic.edu/fmconference/viewabstract.php?id=2

gives also a good insight into the orientation which will be present among the 
leadership of this chapter.

Another interesting article by Vedran - “Cultural Prejudices and Obstacles 
that Prevent Women to Take a Greater Role in Using Technology in Arts” - 
shows that his interests are not narrowly focused on ICT only, but that the 
social implications play an important role in the way he deals with this 
field: “Vedran Vučić believes that such is a reflection of the traditional 
divisions of labor within the patriarchies which still predominate in many a 
milieu, and that this in turn creates a disbalance in education, science, art 
and culture, that causes harm to society.”

http://www.cityofwomen.org/2006/en/program/vucic

I think that the formalization of the membership of this new chapter should be 
welcomed – and I would be happy to see them soon among the ISOC chapters.


Norbert Klein
Phnom Penh/Cambodia


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