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

Thu Sep 17 12:04:49 PDT 2009

Is seems to us that this chapter should be allowed to be formed. By the way
we did not see the by-laws but assumed that you have done that and thet they
follow ISOC guidelines.

Eduardo Diaz
ISOC- Puerto Rico

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Sabrina Wilmot <wilmot at isoc.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -------------------------------
> 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]
>
>
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