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

[Alejandro Pisanty]

Norbert,

your name - i.e. your well-recognized seriousness and public-service 
spirit, among other merits - and your personal participation in the 
meeting you describe add much weight to this already very positive 
application (I know I can vouch personally for Ms. Miloshevich and for 
Slobodan) so I'll be happy to join you in supporting it.

I can't refrain from wishing that an ISOC Chapter will create a force for 
peace and understanding among people(s) in that dear yet troubled region.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty


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On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Norbert Klein wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:31:24 +0700
> From: Norbert Klein <nhklein at gmx.net>
> To: Chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in Belgrade,	Serbia
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
> =
>
> 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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