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

Fri Sep 25 03:01:28 PDT 2009

Hello Sabrina, Eudardo

ISOC India Chennai was chartered as a chapter covering the geographical
regions of Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. Out of the 120
members of ISOC India Chennai, 34 members are from Bangalore (Karnataka).
Chapter membership grew from 40 members in 2007 to 120 as on date.

We have had two meetings in Bangalore and a OneWebDay event last year in a
college campus with participation of 150 students. Last year the members
from Bangalore took interest in developing the Chapter web. One of the
Chapter officers - Satyadhyan Chickerur is from Bangalore; Vinayak Hegde,
who was awarded the IETF fellowship to Stockholm is a member from Bangalore
and some post-IETF outreach activities were discussed with him which would
take place in Bangalore to reach out to the Opensource and other IT
community in Bangalore to encourage them to take part in IETF work.

Geographically, Bangalore city is 20 kilometers from the border of Tamilnadu
and there is a close interconnection between the IT community in Bangalore
and Chennai.

It is good to see a group of professionals in Bangalore coming forward to
take interest in ISOC. If Chapter support could advise them to take part in
ISOC as part of ISOC India Chennai it would certainly give the Chennai
chapter further strength.  After the Chennai chapter takes further shape
with a range of activities in Bangalore city, Chennai could think of
bifurcating the Chapter into two of three - one Chapter in chennai, one in
Hyderabad, one in Bangalore, but right now considering this a new chapter
application clashes with the existing structure and membership of ISOC India
Chennai.

Thank you
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
ISOC India Chennai.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Eduardo Diaz
<eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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