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

[Ram Mohan]

I support this application.  Chennai (pop. 7 million) and Bangalore 
(pop. 5 million) are two large metros, and would potentially draw from 
completely different sets of members.  A person from Bangalore would 
_not_ reasonably identify themselves as belonging to the "Chennai" 
region. The main language spoken in Chennai (Tamil) is different from 
that spoken in Bangalore (Kannada).  A little known fact might be that 
in pre-independent India (pre 1947), these were separate kingdoms.

ISOC would be well advised to take into consideration the cultural, 
linguistic and political tinderbox by calling Bangalore a part of the 
Chennai region.

In North American terms, it would be the equivalent of trying to say 
that Washington DC & New York should merge chapters because they are in 
the Northeast region of the USA.  Sébastien's proposal of one ISOC 
chapter per country reads to me (in Indian terms) roughly as: "We should 
only have ISOC-EU because all states in the EU are part of the EU."

Siva's case would be bolstered if ISOC Chennai changed its charter and 
focused on being a regional organization.  But in its current avatar, it 
is recognized as ISOC _Chennai_ and as a result will be constrained more 
by its geographic selection of the metropolitan region of Chennai.

-Ram

Sabrina Wilmot 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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