[Chapter-delegates] Chapter-delegates Digest, Vol 56, Issue 7

[Khaled KOUBAA]

>> D. Founding Members of the Chapter
>> Salam Yamout
>>    President, Women in IT
>>    Program Manager, Cisco
>> Nabil Boukhalid
>>    .lb registrar
>> Gaby Deek
>>    President, Professional Computer Association
>>    CEO, Omni Holding
>>
>>      
> I've known Nabil Boukhalid as one of the veterans of Internet
> connectivity in Lebanon, from back in the days when he was at AUB:
>
> http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/report.php?id=890202490188:497435522&fromISO=LB
> http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/report.php?id=890202494483:497435268&fromISO=LB
>
> within the context: http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/country.php?ISO=LB
>
> Like many people that I know through their email address, I have never
> met him in person, but I corresponded with him in 1994 and he was always
> a true "driver" of the Internet in Lebanon, regularly informing us at
> NSRC about local developments.
>
> I am very happy to read that he is involved with the proposal of the
> foundation of an ISOC Chapter in Lebanon and hereby send my "thumbs up"
> for this to happen.
>
>    
I know Salam Yanout as well and she is a very active person.
She participated in the last 2 IGF forum and we have had several 
discussion on Internet issues.
I support this application and wish a lot of success for the Lebanese 
future chapter.
Khaled