[Chapter-delegates] Application to form a Chapter in Portugal

Tue Sep 7 05:22:09 PDT 2010

Dear Colleagues,

The following application for a Chapter in Portugal 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 
September 22, 2010.

Please do not hesitate to contact me on or off list.

Thanks,

   Sabrina Wilmot
   ISOC

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Chapter Application

A. Proposed name of the Chapter
ISOC Portugal Chapter

B. Community of Interest the Chapter will to serve
ISOC Portugal Chapter serves a community composed by Portuguese citizens 
and non Portuguese citizens who live or work in Portugal, having the 
Portuguese language as the official language adopted within its activity.

C. Purpose and Scope of Chapter
ISOC Portugal Chapter is a nonprofit organization founded to promote in 
Portugal, the harmonious, affordable, open, non discriminatory and safe 
Internet development, respecting the principles of freedom of speech and 
of privacy.

D. Founding Members of the Chapter

Name: Pedro Veiga
Affiliation: FCCN (National Foundation for the Scientific Computing),
chairman of the board of directors

Name: Marta Dias
Affiliation: FCCN (National Foundation for the Scientific Computing), 
Legal adviser

Name: Luisa Gueifão
Affiliation: FCCN (National Foundation for the Scientific Computing),
dns.pt director

E. List of Supporters
Please see Appendix I.

F. List of Requirements
In Portugal the right to free association is a basic guarantee. 
Associations must abide by the specific purposes for which they are 
created and respect all the applicable legislation. The establishment of 
the ISOC Portugal Chapter as an association operating nationally obliges 
us to comply with the following legal procedures:

a) Registering the name "ISOC Portugal Chapter" via the Validation 
Certificate (Certificado de Admissibilidade) issued by the National 
Registry of Companies (Registo Nacional de Pessoas Colectivas or RNPC). 
Any proposed name can be checked against a computer database. If the 
name has not already been taken that name can be registered;

b) Apply for a Validation Certificate (Certificado de Admissibilidade) 
and for a Provisional Company Identity Card (Cartão Provisorio de Pessoa 
Collectiva) from the Registo Nacional de Pessoas Colectivas, RNPC ;

c) Sign the bylaws at a notary;

d) Apply for a Start of Activity Declaration (Declaração de Início de 
Actividade para Efeitos Fiscais) at the Tax Office;

e) Apply for registration of the company at the local Commercial 
Registry (Conservatórias do Registo Comercial), the registry will then 
organise the company's publication in the Portuguese Official Journal 
(Diário da República);

f) A fee is charged.

G. Additional Information
Pedro Veiga, one of the promoters of this proposal to create the 
Portuguese Chapter of ISOC, has been deeply involved in Information 
Society issues and in the creation and development of the Portuguese 
part of the Internet. He is a pioneer member of ISOC. Some of his most 
relevant activities in this area are:
1980’s – One of the promoters of R&D networking in Portugal, 
establishing the first connections to the global networks (Eunet, RARE, 
NSF-Net, …) from INESC - a private not for profit R&D institute that 
provided services for a large scientific community in Portugal;
represented Portugal in the COSINE project, one of the first EU wide 
projects on academic networking;
1987 – One of the founders of PUUG (Portuguese UNIX Users Group) that 
stated a ISP like service for it’s members;
1996 to 2000 – Member of the Task-force that prepared the "Green Paper 
on the Information Society in Portugal";
 From 1997 – Chairman of FCCN, the organization responsible for the 
planning and management of the Portuguese Research and Education 
Network; FCCN has been very active in the promotion of the Internet in 
the Higher Education and Research sector; FCCN has also started to 
connect all Portuguese schools to the Internet, since 1997 and until 
recently when the school network has been transferred to a commercial 
provider;
 From 1997 – Manager of the .PT ccTLD;
1998 to 2008 – Portuguese Representative to the GAC (Government Advisory 
Committee) of ICANN;
2000 to 2002 – Manager of the Information Society Program of the 
Portuguese Government to finance Information Society related projects.

H. Your Contact Information
Name: Pedro Veiga
Affiliation: FCCN (National Foundation for the Scientific Computing),
Chairman of the Board of Directors [...]

APPENDIX I
1. Pedro Veiga, FCCN
2. Luisa Gueifão, FCCN
3. Marta Dias, FCCN
4. Assis Guerreiro, FCCN
5. Inês Esteves, FCCN
6. João Afonso, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra
7. Sónia Veloso, FCCN
8. António Miguel Ferreira, APREGI
9. Nuno Ramos, Portugal Telecom
10. Bruno Carlos, Flesk
11. Nuno Matias, Amenworld
12. António Campinos, INPI
13. Inês Lopes, INPI
14. João Damas, Bond Internet Systems
15. Sara Monteiro, FCCN
16. Eugénio Pinto, Lógica IT
17. João Pagaime, FCCN
18. Rui Francisco, FCCN
19. Paulo Ferreira, FCCN
20. João Gomes, FCCN
21. Rui Ribeiro, FCCN
22. Daniel Gomes, FCCN
23. Carlos Baquero, Universidade do Minho
24. Lino Santos, FCCN
25. Salomé Branco, FCCN
26. Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, Universidade do Porto
27. João Nuno Ferreira, FCCN
28. Luis Magalhães, UMIC
29. Jorge Ferraz Oliveira
30. Francisco Tomé
31. Paula Veiga
32. João Barros

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