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

Joly MacFie joly at punkcast.com
Mon Sep 28 02:31:27 PDT 2009


A map of India might be helpful:
http://www.mapsofindia.com/top-ten-cities-of-india/top-ten-wealthiest-most-aware-towns-india.html

The Bangalore chapter proposes to represent the Maharashta region,
including the large cities of Mumbai and Pune, at a greater distance,
albeit on a non-exclusive basis.

The distance from Bangalore to Chennai is 334 km (192 miles)

Here in the USA we have chapters In New York, Philadelphia and DC -
cities that are as close or closer.


>> 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.
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>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Eduardo Diaz
>> <eduardodiazrivera at gmail.com <mailto: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
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>>     On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Sabrina Wilmot <wilmot at isoc.org
>>     <mailto: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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