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

[Carlos Vera]

Can you please let us know if already is there a chapter in CR or is this
the first one to be formed?

Carlos Vera
ISOC Ecuador

2010/6/29 Sabrina Wilmot <wilmot at isoc.org>

> 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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