[Chapter-delegates] Application to form an ISOC Chapter in Turkey

Wed May 22 08:23:33 PDT 2013

Dear Colleagues,

The following application for a Chapter in Turkey 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 June 6, 2013.

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

Thanks,
Sabrina Wilmot
Manager, Chapter Formation
Internet Society

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Chapter Application

Internet Society-Turkey Chapter Application

A. Proposed name of the Chapter

Internet Society Turkey Chapter.

B. Community of Interest

Chapter will serve the community within the Republic of Turkey.

C. Purpose and scope of ISOC Turkey Chapter

Primary focus of ISOC Turkey Chapter is to raise awareness on principles and goals of ISOC in our community and to work on Internet issues locally such as access, openness, education, security, and governance.

Bringing together Internet professionals from academic, scientific, governmental, public and private sectors in Turkey, ISOC Turkey Chapter aims to unite those professionals in efforts to promote the evolution of Internet and its positive usage within the country. Leveraging social and professional networking and personal relationships along with the local media (online or pressed), supporting the continuation of local/national conferences, workshops and seminars organised traditionally for the development of Internet in Turkey since 1995; our Chapter will also act as a centralized driving force in our country for exploration of new Internet applications and its innovation.

Having a Chapter of ISOC in Turkey inline with the missions of ISOC will create the capacity to address the problems limiting the development and expansion of Internet in Turkey and will help towards fostering collaboration among relevant organizations in the country in their operations towards these issues.

Turkey being a natural bridge between east and west geographically, located in a region with diverse cultures, with its members from telecom operators (incumbent and private), public authorities (including regulatory bodies), other Internet professionals from ISPs, academic and research institutions as a not-for-profit and neutral platform, ISOC Turkey Chapter is naturally going to play an important role for the solutions of local, regional and global Internet issues.

Taking the Turkey’s current demography into account, our chapter will be fostering the efforts in Turkey on furnishing the youth with skills of benefitting from the Internet. This activity will be taken under two main branches such as the dissemination and facilitation. Dissemination part will have the young generation as a natural target and will include training sessions and all other publicity activities. The facilitation part will generally be a lobbying activity among policy makers and decision takers to enable use of Internet for young generation under much more easier conditions such as cost and common availability.

ISOC Turkey Chapter’s main objectives and activities are listed below:

·To promote access to information for everyone. The Chapter will focus on promoting the positive usage of Internet and its applications in all parts of the society, especially in health, science, culture, e-government, e-business, e-commerce, education, media and entertainment;

·To support development of local content and technological development of Internet;

·To facilitate development of legal measures supporting of Internet advancement, especially protecting information and its free flow within the Internet;

·To work on topics such as net neutrality, copyright, intellectual property, privacy, data protection and other areas that involve Internet and digital citizens rights;

·To organize and run symposia, conferences, exhibitions, shows, festivals, auctions and other events including those international by nature, to any of the objectives of the Chapter;

·To promote multi-stakeholder model of Internet, fostering the multi-stakeholder representation within the Chapter

·To promote a collaborative platform between all Internet related and interested organizations in the country (private, public, commercial, academic, non-governmental)

·To provide Internet and network security education and guidance to the community including schools, kids and the society promoting safe usage of Internet and to help keeping it a safe place to be in for everyone;

·To coordinate efforts with ISOC and other global organizations to bring experts of new technologies to raise awareness and provide education within Turkey where necessary (such as IPv6, DNS, Routing and Security)

·To help and contribute to ISOC’s local, regional and global activities;

·To identify opportunities for collaboration with other ISOC chapters, members, regional and global Internet community;

D. Key priorities for the first year of ISOC Turkey Chapter

Key priorities for the first year of ISOC Turkey Chapter are listed below.

·Completion of the creation of the ISOC Turkey Chapter formally with by-laws document published, registration with the Turkish authorities completed, performing a General Assembly and Board elections and formal recognition from ISOC received;

·Awareness campaigns towards the creation of the Chapter (announcements on mailing lists, creating a web presence, and delivering presentations), about ISOC and global Internet Governance concepts and issues;

·Pro-active recruitment of new members while improving the participation of the current members

·Contribution and support of local events and promotion of the chapter through those (such as INET-TR (Conference on Internet in Turkey), AKADEMİK BİLİŞİM KONFERANSI (Conference on Academical Informatics in Turkey), Internet Haftasi (Internet Fiesta).

·Planning of documentation production towards education and awareness of developments and the state of Internet in Turkey over time

E.  Founding members of ISOC Turkey Chapter

Name 	Lastname	Title/Position	City in Turkey	"Name of Organization/Company"	Type of Organization/Company
Banu	Acartürk	"Group Manager  (Administrative & Financial)"	Ankara	"METU- Nic.tr ("".tr"" DNS)"	University
Mustafa	Akgül	Assoc. Prof. Dr.	Ankara	Bilkent University	University
Gökhan	Akın	Network Specialist	İstanbul	İstanbul Techical University, Computer Center	University
Engin	Arıkan	CEO	İstanbul	MIKOM	Private Company
Umit	Atalay 	CEO	Ankara	Innova	Private Company
Rıza	Ayhan	Computer Center Director	Ankara	Ankara University	University
Yücel	Bağrıaçık	Consultant	Ankara	Self Employed	Private Company
Hakan	Bakır	Director	Ankara	Huawei	Private Company
Ebru	Baranseli	Assist. Prof.	Eskişehir	Anadolu University	University
Ezgi	Başaran	Journalist	İstanbul	Radikal	Media/Press
Onur	Bektaş	System Administrator	Ankara	TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM	Government Organization
Can	Bican	Senior Consultant	Ankara	Symturk	Private Company
Mutlu	Binark	Prof. Dr.	Ankara	Başkent University	University
Haluk	Bingöl	Assoc. Prof. Dr.	İstanbul	Boğaziçi University	University
Uğur	Çağal	R & D Business Development Director	İstanbul	Netaş	Private Company
Kürşat	Çağıltay	Prof. Dr.	Ankara	Middle East Technical University	University
Mehmet Ufuk	Çağlayan	Prof. Dr.	İstanbul	Boğaziçi University	University
Necati	Demir	Comp. Eng, MSc. / Technical Manager	İzmir	Hermes İletişim	Private Company
Kozan	Demircan	Consultant	İstanbul	Effect PR	Private Company
Devrim	Demirel	CEO	Ankara	Beril Technology Ltd.	Private Company
Ethem	Derman	Prof. Dr.	İstanbul	Ankara University, Emeritus	University
Hidayet	Doğan	CTO	Ankara	Yazılım Parkı Bilişim Teknolojileri D.O.R.P. Ltd.	Private Company
Kadir	Erdoğan	Group Manager (Tecnical)	Ankara	"METU- Nic.tr ("".tr"" DNS)"	University
Uğur	Erduğrul	IT Infrastructure Director	İstanbul	TEB	Bank
Doruk	Fişek	Managing Partner	Ankara	Özgür Yazılım A.Ş.	Private Company
Orhan	Gökçöl	Dr.	İstanbul	Bahcesehir University	University
Türker	Gülüm	Partner	Ankara	PROFELİS BİLİŞİM VE FİKRİ SINAİ HAKLAR SRV.HİZ.DAN.TİC.LTD.ŞTİ.	Private Company
Yavuz	Günalay	Assoc. Prof. Dr.	İstanbul	Bahçeşehir Universitiy	University
Sinan	İlkiz	Network & Security Manager	İstanbul	Turkcell Superonline	Private Company
Enis	Karaarslan	Dr.	Muğla	Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University	University
Nihad	Karslı	Lawyer	Ankara	Pardus Users Association	NGO
Ali R.	Keleş	Software Developer	İstanbul	Alternative Informatics Association	NGO
Serhat	Koç	Lawyer	İstanbul	Guneli & Koc Law Firm	Law Firm
M.Serdar	Kuzuloğlu	Journalist	İstanbul	Radikal	Media/Press
Füsun S.	Nebil	Journalist	İstanbul	turk-internet.com	Media/Press
Serkan	Orcan	Computer Eng.	Ankara	TUBITAK ULAKBIM	Government Organization
Hüzeyfe	Önal	Manager, Enterprise Security Services	İstanbul	BGA Ltd.	Private Company
Fatih	Özavcı	"Information Security Researcher & Consultant"	Istanbul	GamaSEC Security Solutions Ltd.	Private Company
Attila	Özgit	Dr.	Ankara	Middle East Technical University and NIC-TR	University
Ufuk	Özlü	CEO	Ankara	GTECH	Private Company
Murat	Pehlivan	Journalist	Ankara	ICT MEDIA	Media/Press
R. Engür	Pişirici	Researcher	Ankara	PHP Developers Association	NGO
İsmail H.	Polat	Lecturer	İstanbul	Kadir Has University	University
Arif	Polat	Manager	Ankara	Turk Telekom	Private Company
Erkan	Saka	Assist.Prof.	İstanbul	Istanbul Bilgi University	University
Emre	Sezginer	Network & System Manager	Ankara	"METU- Nic.tr ("".tr"" DNS)"	University
Murat	Soysal	Product Manager	İstanbul	Intellica	Private Company
Ahmet Serdar	Tan	Dr.	Ankara	Türk Telekom	Private Company
Aydan	Taşdemir	Computer Engineer/System Administrator	İstanbul	Markafoni	Private Company
Aslı	Telli Aydemir	Assist. Prof. Dr.	İstanbul	İstanbul Şehir University	University
Margerite	Turhan	Assist. Prof. Dr.	İstanbul	Yeditepe University, School of Law	University
Tanol	Türkoğlu	CIO	İstanbul	Şekerbank	Private Company
Özgür	Uçkan	Dr.	İstanbul	İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi	University
Ceren	Ünal	Instructor	Ankara	Bilkent University	University
Atıf	Ünaldı	Journalist	İstanbul	BEA TV	Media/Press
Savaş	Ünsal	CEO/Consultant	İstanbul	ICE İletişim Hizmetleri Ltd.	Private Company
Mustafa	Ünver	Consultant to President	Ankara	BTK	Government Organization
Oğuz	Yarımtepe	Computer Engineer / System Administrator	Çanakkale	Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University	University
Engin	Yılmaz	PhD Student	İstanbul	Boğaziçi University	University
Filiz	Yılmaz	Internet Governance Consultant	Ankara	Self Employed	Private Company
Hüseyin	Yüce	Dr.	İstanbul	Marmara University	University
Necdet	Yücel	Dr.	Çanakkale	Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University	University

F.  List of supporters and partner organizations

1.     INETD (Internet Technologies Association), Mustafa Akgul, http://inetd.org.tr
2.     LINUX Users Association, Volkan Evrin, http://lkd.org.tr/
3.     Association of Computer Engineers,  Oktay Dursun, http://bmo.org.tr
4.     Alternative Informatics Association,  Ali Riza Keles, http://alternatifbilisim.org/

G. Membership

In line with ISOC strategic priority to develop “Next Generation of Leaders” in Turkey, quite a number of young professionals have been included as founding members of ISOC Turkey Chapter. Some of the founding members are also participated to the ISOC Next General Internet Leaders Program in the previous years.

Communication between ISOC Turkey Chapter members will be carried out mainly via an e-mail list. isoc-uye at isoc.inetd.org.tr e-mail list has already been formed and is currently active. Other than this, face-to-face meetings will be called out during major local events to bring the members together as much as possible. And the ISOC Turkey Chapter webpage to be launched will include up-to-date information on ISOC Turkey Chapter activities and the membership process.

Pro-active recruitment of new members and partnering organizations will be carried out through an awareness campaign which is already set in the first year priorities in this document.  Local events such as INET-TR and AKADEMİK BİLİŞİM conferences will be utilized to form a regular pool for recruitment as well as promotion of the goals and activities ISOC Turkey Chapter.

H. List of requirements

Under Turkish law, NGOs can either be formed as foundations or associations and there is no other category of a non-profit organization recognized by the law. Accordingly, the Internet Society chapter in Turkey has to be formed as an association. The chapter will be first formed as a national association and then collaboration with the Internet Society will be officially established. The statute of the chapter will be drafted in compliance with both the provisions of the Turkish Law of Associations and the by-laws and guidelines of the Internet Society. As names of national associations are required by law to be in Turkish, the chapter will be established under the name of “Türkiye Internet Toplumu Derneği” (Internet Society Association of Turkey in English). Although the national association formation process is relatively simple, some extra time will be needed to receive the permission of the Ministry of Interior, which is required in order to use the word “Turkey” in the name of the association under Art. 28 of the law.

After the association acquires legal entity under Turkish law as a national association, the next step is to apply for the permission of the Ministry of Interior for collaborating with Internet Society, which would be subject to the procedure provided by Art. 5 of the law, which states that collaboration with foreign associations is subject to the permission granted by the Ministry of Interior upon receiving the opinion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In order to make this application at the time, an official document from the Internet Society explicitly declaring the intention to collaborate with “Türkiye Internet Toplumu Derneği” and the sphere of activities of collaboration will be required. Permission of the ministry is crucial for even the simplest forms of collaborations (such as using the logo), as collaborations conducted without the permission of the Ministry of Interior is punishable by a fine of 1000 TL (around 500 Euros) and might lead to the closure of the national association under Art. 32 of the law. It should also be noted that all kinds of financial aid and grants that might be given by the Internet Society to the chapter in the future would be subject to prior notification to the Ministry of Interior with bank details.

I. Additional information
 None

J. Your contact information

Mustafa Akgül
Assoc. Professor
Department of Information Technologies
Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey

Serkan Orcan
4.Cad. 1295 Sok. 3/9 Ovecler Cankaya/Ankara TURKEY

Filiz Yilmaz
Internet Governance Consultant
KOALAFIL BV

Murat Soysal
Product Manager
Intellica Ltd., Istanbul

Ceren Unal, LL.M.
Department of Civil Law
Bilkent University Faculty of Law
06800 Bilkent Ankara TURKEY