[Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in Bangalore, India

[Sabrina Wilmot]

Dear Colleagues,

The following application for a Chapter in Bangalore, India, 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 recognised by ISOC.

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

~~~~ For the Chapter delegates attending the INET conference in Delhi 
today, you can meet Mr. Manish Chauhan here. I know some of you did 
already. ~~~~

The period allowed for comments is two weeks and the deadline is 2 
October 2009.

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

Best regards,
Sabrina Wilmot
ISOC

PS: Please note that private contact information has been removed from 
the application below but is on file with ISOC.

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Chapter Application for ‘Bangalore Chapter of the Internet Society’

A. Proposed name of the Chapter
The chapter will be known as "Bangalore Chapter of Internet Society".

B. Community of Interest the Chapter will serve
This Chapter will serve persons who live or work in the geographic area 
which includes (but is not limited to) Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, 
Mumbai, Goa and nearby areas on a non-exclusive basis.

C. Purpose and Scope of Chapter
Mission: "To assure the beneficial, open evolution of the global 
Internet and its related internetworking technologies through leadership 
in standards, issues, and education.".

Objectives-
1) To provide the leadership, vision, and advocacy efforts necessary to 
educate the public and engender a healthy and receptive environment to 
Digital Convergence in the Bangalore Area.
2) To provide broad-based representation of the Indian Internet 
community both nationally and internationally.
3) To provide a service for the benefit of the community generally by 
enabling individuals, groups, and organisations to use the Internet 
effectively for communication, collaboration, education, and innovation 
without any discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, language, 
religion, political or other opinion, social origin, property, birth or 
other status and to provide information, assistance, archives, and other 
relevant resources for Indian Internet users.
4) To give expression to the viewpoint of Indian Internet users to 
business, industry, the government, the media, and society in general, 
by providing information and promoting education.
5) To affiliate with other Indian Internet-focused organisations for 
co-ordination, collaboration and education in order to further the 
objectives of the Society.
6) To promote, facilitate, and conduct research relating to the Internet 
and internetworking.
7) To develop and maintain formal and informal relationships with the 
international Internet community.

D. Founding Members of the Chapter
The Bangalore Chapter of the Internet Society is being initiated by the 
following 3 founding members:
1> (Mr.) Manish Chauhan
Affiliation: Global Member, ISOC.
Currently: Member of Technical Staff, Oracle India Development Center
(Bangalore)
2> (Ms.) Swati Pandey
Affiliation: Global Member, ISOC
3> (Mr.) Abhinav Asthana
Affiliation: Global Member, ISOC

E. List of Supporters
Below is a list of 28 Global Members of ISOC (with their contact 
information and other details) who belong to Bangalore or nearby areas 
and who are in support of setting up the "Bangalore Chapter of the 
Internet Society ". Each member in this list has been contacted 
individually and has expressed interest in volunteering for and actively 
supporting ISOC activities in the region. With time, we plan to select 
representative members from organisations having a membership count
greater than 5. For ex: A chapter member belonging to Cisco Bangalore 
maybe selected to serve as a representative for all the chapter members 
hailing from Cisco Bangalore. On similar lines company/organisation 
representatives, for the chapter will be selected for other 
organisations (Oracle, Intel, Yahoo etc.).

Manish Chauhan
Swati Pandey
Abhinav Asthana
Amandeep Uppal
Vikas Coca
Govinda Upadhyay
Tanmay Sarkar
Saravanakumar Sr.
Dinesh Garg
Ohmkaar Kambhampati
Praveen Garg
Natarajan Bharathwaj
Sumit Agarwal
Kushal Agarwal
Lokesh Harnal
Crishna Carthik
Sachin Vijayachandran
Dhruv Mittal
Amit Agarkhed
Abhimanyu Vatsya
Sivaraman Siddharth
Chetan Bansal
Abhishek Johri
Rakesh Ganatra
Vikaas Goel
Gautam Partap
Yogesh Kansal
Rohit Oberoi

F. List of Requirements
There are no special statutory or regulatory requirements for 
instituting a chapter of the Internet Society in Bangalore .This has 
been verified by contacting the officials of other chapters in India
(Delhi).

G. Additional Information
Bangalore and ISOC:

We already have ISOC chapters in Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai but the 
south west part of India doesn’t has any chapter as yet, which includes 
some major Industrial and Technology hubs like Bangalore, Hyderabad, 
Mumbai and Pune.

India is a developing country with the world’s second largest population 
of 100 millions. Despite being an IT hub more than half of its 
population still lives in villages and has no access to computers
and internet. The challenges of improving Internet growth are 
multifaceted and interrelated, particularly in developing countries. 
They include, for example, access to technical skills and knowledge, the 
regulatory and policy environment for information and telecommunications 
services, and broader economic and market factors, language diversity, 
and the diffusion and reliability of basic infrastructures and services.

Being the IT hub and the most developed city of India Bangalore becomes 
an obvious choice for opening a chapter. Bangalore is called the Silicon 
Valley of India because of the large number of information technology 
companies located in the city which contributed 33% of India's Rs. 
144,214 crore (US$ 31 billion) IT exports in 2006-07. It has been 
recently declared as the India’s leading IT exporter and which is 
India's third most populous city and fifth-most populous urban 
agglomeration and is also a home to some of the most well-recognized 
colleges, research institutions, Numerous public sector heavy 
industries, software companies, aerospace, telecommunications, and 
defense organizations.

In recent years, these attributes have propelled Bangalore to the 
forefront of the high-tech industry boom in India. It has also been 
ranked as one of the world's fastest growing urban areas.
A chapter at Bangalore can serve the community in a much better way by 
providing a better platform on both national and international level.

Other Information:

1>As soon as the chapter is chartered, ISOC Bangalore chapter will have 
a state of the art web portal within a month.

2>Bangalore chapter of the internet society plans to host an annual All 
India cyber security essay competition.

3>This draft of the chapter petition and the Bylaws submitted with this 
application was circulated amongst and ratified by the 28 ISOC Global 
members who are initiating the Bangalore Chapter. As and when the 
chapter is chartered and more members join in, the bylaws will be 
re-debated among the members present in the first meeting of the chapter 
and any changes subsequently notified to the ISOC.

4>We expect the membership of the chapter to grow over 500 within the 
initial few months itself.

H. Your Contact Information
(Mr.) Manish Chauhan [ Global Member, ISOC]