[Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in Costa Rica

[Sabrina Wilmot]

Dear Colleagues,

The following application for a Chapter in Costa Rica 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.

The period allowed for comments is two weeks and the deadline is July
14, 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
ISOC Costa Rica Chapter

B. Community of Interest the Chapter will to serve
The Chapter will serve the people living in Costa Rica.

C. Purpose and Scope of Chapter
The objectives of the establishment of the chapter are to create a
community of engineers, lawyers, and other participants in the
development of the Internet in the country. To promote a discussion of
Internet governance in Costa Rica.

The objectives:
a) Promote the adoption of an IXP in the country.
b) To be the principal actor in the creation of IXPs in the country.
c) Encourage the adoption of IPv6 workshop in our community and training
for end user adoption.
d) Be the starting point for queries DNS routing and security.
e) Promote events and tutorials from the good practices of the DNS.
f) Promote the inclusion of different actors in the development of
Internet ruling nations (political, legal and technical)
g) have a group of professionals in development and testing of new
technologies in this way to transfer the knowledge to the community of
our country.
h) To be the organization in which different companies meeting the most
important agencies that have a stake in the Internet development in
Costa Rica.
I) Have a neutral approach to the various problems and inquiries
undertaken in the context of the Internet in Costa Rica

D. Founding Members of the Chapter
Carlos Watson Carazo
Felipe Hangen Morales

E. List of Supporters
Grupo Electrotecnica Felipe Hangen
SUTEL  FONATEL Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
Fundación Caatec  John Hewitt
Ministerio de Educaciòn Pública  Leonardo Garnier
Club de Investigación Tecnologíca  Roberto Sasso
Fundación Omar Dengo  Pablo Jenkins
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología  Rowland Espinoza
Cisco Costa Rica  Ravi Linghan
Camtic Alex Mora
Camtic  Jaime Goldenberg
SUTEL  Jorge Brealey
SUTEL  Glenn Fallas
SUTEL  Maryleana Mendez
SUTEL  George Miley
Cyberregulación  Juan Manuel Campos
Arias & Muñoz  Lihat Vishnia
BCT  Arnoldo Mora
Aurainteractiva Randolph Kissling
UNESCO   Fernando Fajardo
Fundacion Asis  Luis Daniel Gonzalez
PROSIC  Juan Manuel Villasuso

I contacted different national groups, government, foundations and
private companies, all of them are giving their support for the creation
of this chapter in our country, We have a really important support by
SUTEL and FONATEL (fondo nacional de las telecomunicaciones "national
fund for telecommunications"), they want to give monetary support for
the proposed projects by the ISOC-CR Chapter, the other organizations
will help us with knowledge and once the chapter is created they will
give more support in other areas as well.

F. List of Requirements
We don’t have any problem in order to create the chapter, the source of
our inquiries was the treasury of our country (http:www.hacienda.go.cr)
also we did this questions to several lawyers.

G. Additional Information
Please indicate here any additional information you believe would be
helpful to our initial review.
The motivation that I had for this project of the creation of the ISOC
Costa Rica chapter creation, is due to the ISOC works and how it
accomplish all the proposed tasks to the internet community, I've been
given the opportunity to be part of two meetings of the IETF by this
program (ISOC Fellowship to the IETF Programme), and also all the
support that Mr. Sebastian Bellagamba has give me in order to start this
project.

Costa Rica on the last years has been a point of inversion by many
companies, also the telecomunications was a monopoly by the  goverment
until 2008, now other companies are available to work in this field as
well, and they are starting to get into Costa Rica, this could get us a
better internet penetration level. This give us an insight that Costa
Rica will need an organization to look over the end user interests and
to be a neutral point between all the actors of this new development of
internet in our country.

H. Your Contact Information
Carlos Watson Carazo
(contact details on file)

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