[ncdnhc-discuss] Re: [ncdnhc-announce] membership application IATP/IREX Moldova (www.iatp.md)

[Adam Peake]

I support this application.

Adam Peake
GLOCOM Tokyo


>A. Basic Information for Organization
>
>
>  1. What is the name of your Organization?
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>Internet Access and Training Program Moldova / IREX
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>  2. Is the Organization a member of any other constituency in the
>Domain Name Supporting Organization of ICANN?
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>No
>
>  3. What is the major domain name of the Organization?
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>iatp.md
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>  4. Does the Organization have a website and if so, would you provide
>the URL?
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>http://www.iatp.md/
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>B. Contact information for Representative of Organization
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>
>  1. What is your name and title with the Organization?
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>Alexandru Jalba, Country Coordinator for IATP/IREX Moldova
>
>  2. How can other representatives reach you? (email, telephone, fax
>appreciated)
>
>email:          sandu at iatp.md
>telephone:      +373 2225341
>mobile:         +373 9106220
>fax:            +373 2246524  ATTN: Alexandru Jalba
>
>  3. How is it that you have come to represent the Organization in this
>Constituency? (Please furnish appropriate indication that the Organization
>has authorized your participation, for example, vote of membership, vote
>of directors, action by officer(s) or consensus of members.)
>
>The Deputy Regional Western NIS IATP Coordinator Colin Guard authorized
>me to participate. Contact info: guard at kyiv.irex.org ;
>tel: +380 44 2293479 (based in Kiev, Ukraine).
>Also, by my duties, I am authorized to participate, on behalf
>of the IATP/IREX in Moldova.
>
>
>  4. Are there other representatives from your Organization who will be
>participating in this Constituency? Is so, who is authorized to vote on
>behalf of the Organization?
>
>None for IATP/IREX Moldova.
>
>
>C. Purpose of Organization:
>
>
>  1. What are the Organization's primary activities?
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>Provide free and open access to the Internet, and training, for selected
>targeted groups of professionals in Moldova. Among these groups are
>lawyers, journalists, NGO members, librarians, teachers of English,
>public administration officials.
>Assist these groups in creating and publishing on-line/web resources.
>
>
>  2. What are the Organization's primary activities on the Internet?
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>Provide free hosting to web pages/sites created by the professional groups
>mentioned in point C1.
>Give free access to the Internet via 7 computer equipped sites to
>these groups, in 5 cities of Moldova, both during courses and during
>open access time.
>
>
>  3. Please furnish a statement of how the Organization's purposes and
>activities conform to the NCDNHC Constituency's goals and membership
>requirements. This should be a narrative statement which specifically
>describes the Organization's purposes and activities and may include
>references to charter or by-law provisions.
>
>
>IATP works into making the Internet a tool for professional. Our
>goal is to make the flow of information free. Participation in
>country wide events connected with the Internet often result in policy
>making as regarding the Internet in Moldova.
>Therefore the goals of IATP share most of the goals of NCDNHC, and
>do not contradict any of these.
>For more info please see
>   http://www.iatp.md/en/about_us.htm
>
>
>D. Type of Organization:
>
>  Please furnish information regarding your Organization's
>legal status -- is it incorporated (if so, in what jurisdiction) or
>unincorporated? If incorporated, doe it have a not-for-profit or
>non-commercial status?
>
>Internet Access and Training Program is a project of the US
>NGO IREX. IATP works, with the identical aim, in 12 countries.
>In Moldova the IREX and IATP branch are registered as a local Non Governmental
>Organization, without the right to provide services and/or cash money.
>Thus IATP/IREX is not-for-profit and non-commercial.
>
>
>E. Size of Organization:
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>  The NCDNHC will have two subgroups: one for Large and the other for Small
>Organizations. Please indicate the category of membership or employee
>size. If the Organization has both members and employees, please answer
>both questions.
>
>  1. Are you a membership organization? If so, does the Organization have
>under or over 1000 members? What type of individuals or entities are
>members of your Organization?
>
>IATP is not a membership organization.
>
>
>  2. If you are a non-member organization, do you have under or over 200
>employees?
>
>Under 200 employees.
>
>
>F. Conflict of Interest
>
>Note: Conflict of Interest may or may not be a bar to joining the NCDNHC. 
>The hope is that by circulating information about our views, backgrounds,
>and possible conflicts of interests, others in the NCDNHC will have a
>better idea how to interpret and weigh the ideas that we put forward.
>
>  1. For the Organization:
>
>  Please furnish a brief statement concerning any possible conflict between
>the goals of the Constituency and the Organization's purposes, functions
>or activities.
>
>None that I can think of.
>The goal of the IATP is to develop the Internet use in Moldova by
>"educating" as many professionals as possible in how to use it,
>and the possibilities it allows for workplace development.
>The organization  cannot come in conflict with the
>Constituency.
>
>
>  Has the Organization been involved in Internet governance before?  Does
>it have any developed positions that you would like others to know about?
>If so, please describe below or provide a URL.
>
>IATP has not been been directly involved in Internet governance
>in Moldova so far. Our work conducted to creation of web sites
>of governmental institutions, to computer instruction of
>hundreds of lawyers, journalists, other professionals, up to
>4500 users total. That all greatly affects 'Internet life' in country.
>
>
>  2. For the Representative:
>
>  As individuals, many of us have been involved in Internet governance
>before. If you have any positions on Internet governance that you would
>like others to read about (taken on behalf of this Organization or others
>or as an individual), please feel free to tell us about them or drop a URL
>below.
>
>None documented.
>
>
>G. Is there anything else you would like to add?
>
>I regularly meet with major ISPs in the country, as well as with
>international organizations representatives - all those who do affect
>the Internet in country.
>I consider it important to participate in issues of Internet in general,
>and in domain name (namely .md) regulation in the country.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>H. To submit this membership form, you must send the above information to
>Announce at ICANN-NCC.ORG
>
>In addition to being circulated on the NCDNHC list, this
>information will be made available on the NCDNHC website so that new
>organizations, as they join the Constituency can read and learn about
>existing members.
>
>To become a member of NCDNHC, you should get at least two supporters.
>Other members could challenge your membership application.
>Therefore, even after you submit your application,
>it takes at least two weeks or more.
>You can confirm what would happen at web archive of member's
>announcement mailinglist.
>(http://http://www.icann-ncc.org/pipermail/announce/)
>If your application would not be accepted even after all requirements are
>to be fulfilled, please send email to Membership at ICANN-NCC.ORG
>
>Membership at ICANN-NCC.ORG
>
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