Monday, March 14, 2011

ICANN 40 San Francisco Meeting - Sunday 13 March

First time attending an ICANN meeting and the word is overwhelming. The meeting is being held in WestIn Hotel right in front of Union Square, San Francisco and with roughly around 1600+ delegates, it's a sea of particiapants. It's a long meeting and you can find the meeting schedule in the following link. http://svsf40.icann.org/full-schedule.

As an ICANN Fellow, the day started with introduction of other fellows from various countries, overview of ICANN, ways and means of remote particiaption , policy update workshop and New gTLD basics, ccNSO finance working groups workshop, for some time was in the GAC meeting, at the cocktail sposored by Neustar and finally ISOC San Francisco Chapter hosted meeting and ISOC Chapters Meeting. The time by which I could rech my hotel room was past 9PM.

There are many acronyms in the ICANN world and I am still getting used to it however, there are few which have a rock solid work going on inside them.

Watch this space for a daily update on the meeting and also I will be posting on the various topics which are being discussed at the international level.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Chapter Meet

The Chapter Meet and Workshop on "Approach for Child Security on Internet" was organized on 27th June, 2009.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

ISOC IKOL Presenting in Corporates

As part of its mission to spread the awareness about Internet Society and the oppurtunities of engagement with ISOC, ISOC-IKOL is conducting series of sessions in corporates. The sessions lined up are as follows:
a) Siemens- Thursday, 19th Feb from 4-5 PM.
b) NIIT- Saturday 27th Feb from 5-6 PM.

Interested people can contact me so that necessary arrangements can be done.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

ISOC-IKOL Participating in KSPIN

The next Kolkata - SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) meeting has been scheduled on 9th Feb, 2009 from 5PM to 7 PM wherein Kolkata Chapter of ISOC is participating in SPIN to create awareness about existence of ISOC Kolkata Chapter and the Activities and Opportunities for Engagement for individuals and organizations.

Please let me know your interest to join the meeting so that arrangements can be made accordingly.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Online Student Magazine

Srinwantu Dey one of our members wrote:

"It's definitly the time to take initiative in the Kolkata region. The thing which I am really worried in this circumstances, is about the mis-interpretation of Internet among the school children. The thing which we can start as of now, is start a online student magazine where we could have put off articles or papers for proper internet guidance. The E-Zine will be open for any article submission by students also. We can contact the Government and schools for memberships and promotions."

What are yours thoughts? Please share.

Cybercafe Certification

Joydeep Chatterjee, one of our member wrote:

"I was thinking of having all internet cybercafe's getting registered with ISOC Kolkata. From our side we can give some certifications based on some cehcks and compliances that the cycbercafe has to undergo. There are several 'unregisterd' cybercafe's and maybe this initiative will differentiate between 'ISOC certified' and non-certified cafes.Currently there is no certification body and this can definitely be revenue earler for the chapter too (in terms of certificate renewal etc)"

Please post your views as to what you think on this and how it can be carried forward.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Kolkata Chapter of ISOC is Reality

Hello All,
Greetings & Happy New Year 2009!!

The new Year has definitely started with a positive note as our Chapter Application has been accepted by ISOC and India Kolkata Chapter of Internet Society is now a reality. You can see it at the following link: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/chapters/list.php?region=&status=A&view=&id=266#266.

There are numerous Internet specific or related areas which requires immediate attention and can we worked upon with focus as state of West Bengal.

The areas primarily can be divided into Education, Awareness, Research, Collaboration & Chapter Activities. Please do let me know your thoughts on how you want to be associated with the Chapter mentioning the area of interest.

The first step is now complete and we need to move ahead with lot of vigor and enthusiasm.