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

[Carlos Vera]

I know several of the CR people and believe this can be one of the most
successful chapters in our region.

Carlos Vera
ISOC Ecuador.

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

> 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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