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

[Sabrina Wilmot]

Dear Carlos,

No, it is the first one to be chartered in Costa Rica.

Regards,
Sabrina Wilmot
ISOC

On 6/29/2010 5:30 PM, Carlos Vera wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
> 
>     ----------------
> 
>     *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 <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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