[Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in Bogota, Colombia

[Sabrina Wilmot]

Dear Colleagues,

The following application for a Chapter in Bogota, Colombia, 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.

FYI, we have met some of the applicants in the past year at various 
meetings and have encouraged the members to join the existing Colombian 
Chapter on several occasions. However, they have decided to form a 
Chapter in Bogota, and their ideas are outlined in the application below.

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

The period allowed for comments is two weeks and the deadline is 
December 15, 2010.

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

Best regards,

   Sabrina Wilmot
   ISOC

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*Chapter Application*

A. Proposed name of the Chapter
Capítulo Bogotá-Colombia de ISOC / Bogotá-Colombia Chapter Of  ISOC.

B. Community of Interest the Chapter will to serve
The community of Interest of this Chapter will be initially the 
residents of Bogota. Eventually we hope to scale our reach to other 
cities and towns in Colombia.

C. Purpose and Scope of Chapter
The Bogota-Colombia Chapter of ISOC will be an open organization where 
every individual or institution will be welcome to participate and 
contribute. It will make a special emphasis in a frequently and 
effective communication to coordinate the local efforts with the 
regional and global ISOC organization, and its many chapters, by 
becoming a global reference on how to engage the different actors 
(Government, enterprise, education and civil society), in order to 
leverage best practices for the development of local, regional and 
national public policy becoming an expert in Internet related topics.

The Chapter aims to become a channel for execution of programs of 
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Colombian based companies, 
developing activities focused at increasing the “digital inclusion” in 
our target population. With this support and with support from many 
sources, the Chapter will perform activities in the areas of education 
and the promotion of alternative methods of access to internet.

One difference of the chapter is to help forging productive links 
between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of 
games in education, training, health, and public policy. This will help 
in exploring the competences development by empowering the people in the 
problem solving of the challenges facing the world, identified in the 
Millennium Development (MDG) goals.

D. Founding Members of the Chapter
Name	Surname  (Profession, Office Company, Email on file)
Francisco Alcides Ruano Males 	
Mauricio Álvarez Aragón
Lorenzo Alberto Antamaría Espinosa
Abelardo Arciniegas
Diana Carolina 	Arias
Ariel Barbosa
Martha Patricia Barrera Alfonso	
Carlos Andrés Barrero Flórez
Yesid Alejandro Barreto Jiménez
Jorge Fernando Bejarano Lobo
Crispín Swedi Bilombele
Philippe Boland
Pierre-Alain Branger
Germán Bustos
Mario Hamid Cajiao Mejía
Wilman Alonso Camargo Asesor
Julián Casasbuenas G.
Andrés R. Castelblanco Mendoza
José Manuel Castelblanco Arenas
Juan Carlos Castellanos
Mauricio Rafael Castro Abarca
Carlos Arturo Cely Niño
Sandra L. Céspedes Umaña
Francisco José Córdoba
Jhon Alexander Cuartas Flórez
José Camilo Daccach T.
Andrés Gustavo Díaz
Jairo Alberto Galindo Cuesta
Francisco Javier Galindo Vázquez
Fabián Orlando García
María Andrea Giraldo
Felipe Alexander González Castillo
JOSE SAMUEL GONZALEZ CONTRERAS
José Samuel González Contreras
José Adelmo González R.
Carlos	Gutiérrez Cuevas
Yair José Guzmán Brieva
Alejandro Hernández
José Luis Hernández Bautista
Carolina Herrera De Castellanos
Luis Alberto Lesmes Sáenz
Carlos 	Linares Valentín
Maricela Londoño
Edwin Orlando López
Jefferson Camilo López Barrero
Alfredo	López Hernández	Educación
Bell Manrique Mejía
Iván Darío Marrugo Jiménez
Daniel 	Mejía Maldonado
Carlos A. Merchán
Carolina Morales Prado
Ana María Moreno Ballesteros
Alberto Moreno Quiñones
Freddy Alberto Mosquera
Liliana Andrea Murillo Pardo
Yeisson	Navarrete Martínez
Carlos	Neira
Fabio Cesar Olaya Fernández
Jairo Ortiz
Luis Farley Ortiz Forero
Diane Yissel Osorio Herrera
Andrés Guillermo Otálora
Arilog Regina Pavón Ángel
Julio	Páez
Carlos Huber Pinilla Buitrago
Yesid Polania
Eugenia Ramírez Isaza
Cindy Restrepo
Erick Rincón Cárdenas
Freddy Javier Robayo Vargas
Gilberto Rodríguez
Gabriel Rodríguez Escandón
Francisco Javier Roldán
Andrés E. Roldan Martínez	
Luz Nelly Romero Agúdelo
Gonzalo Alfredo	Romero Borda
Nelson Alberto Ruan Ceballos
Mónica 	Rubiano
Luis Guillermo Rubiano Orjuela
Tatiana Salamanca Abogada
Félix Eduardo Salcedo
Cesar Augusto Salinas Bermúdez
Carlos	Sanabria Periodismo
Eduardo Santoyo
Gabriel Mauricio Sarmiento
Idier Socha Prieto
Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzón
María Lucía Urrego
Iván Vargas Chaves
Ana Erlinda Veloza Cerón
Omar Villota Hurtado
Alicia Inés Zanfrillo
Ramiro Zarate Angulo

E. List of Supporters
Organization	Name	Role	(Contact mail on file)
1. Colnodo - Julián Casasbuenas, Director
2. .co internet sas - Eduardo Santoyo, VP, Asuntos Corporativos e 
Institucionales,
3. enREDo - Ana María Moreno Ballesteros, President	

F. List of Requirements
None  requirements.

G. Additional Information
Our communication strategy has been successful, and with the creation of 
a site: http://colombia.isoc.pro/ as part of an effort of transparence 
in all the processes, so each member and person interested can consult 
the history of the creation of the chapter.

H. Your Contact Information
Philippe Boland
enREDo
Bogotá Colombia
(details on file)

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RE: Application of Colombian Chapter of the Internet Society - ISOC - 
COLOMBIA

We are writing in behalf of all the people interested in creating the 
Bogotá-Colombia chapter and be one of the official chapters of ISOC.

In the ISOC Business plan 2010-2012, the next 24 months will be crucial 
for the future of this great organization, and the “lift the game” 
strategy to reduce semi active chapters will rejuvenate the presence of 
ISOC in the world, for that reason we want to be an official chapter 
because we are focused in be the most active chapter in Latin America 
and further in the world.

We know the importance of ISOC in the world, and for that reason, we 
have been preparing the creation of the chapter for many months in order 
to have the entire crucial axis in place. We have made 6 preparations 
meetings by one of our supporting organizations (enREDo- Red 
Internacional de Diseño through its Club Networking TIC), gathering more 
than 75 people and designing strategies to maintain the connected with 
ISOC Bogota-Colombia.

Our communication strategy has been successful, and with the creation of 
a site: http://colombia.isoc.pro/ as part of an effort of transparence 
in all the processes, so each member and person interested can consult 
the history of the creation of the chapter.

Another strategy has been the mailing list (now with 3.000 people) 
receiving the updates of this great process.

Many of our members, such as Patricia Cespedes (an IEFT scholar and 
member of ISOC for many years) are supporting the chapter creation from 
their actual location (in this case Canada).

We look forward to receive a positive and fast answer of this great 
effort we are engaged.

Respectfully submitted,
Maricela Londoño C.

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