Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
President
ISOC India Chennai
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy is the President of ISOC India Chennai and immensely values the
Internet Model. He has taken part in the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of Internet
Economy at Seoul, Korea, and took part at the APNIC 24 and SANOG events in New Delhi. As a
person who believes in a well balanced system of Governance in its minimal form, he has been
actively participating in the key discussions on Internet Governance, especially at the Internet
Governance Caucus mailing lists. He is associated with One Web Day and has volunteered to
handle the Stories task.
He believes that there can be a solution acceptable to all stakeholders who have conflicting
interests. One of his early papers on the Internet Architecture issues sent as a mail to W3C
proposed “Costume Party Model” for “Reconciling Society's Concern's for Privacy with the
imperative of Authentication” - an idea that he now considers imperfect. He is working on
concepts that would further the Internet Model as the world moves towards the next billions of
Internet Users and a richer Internet.
Within ISOC, apart from his attention to local programs and events, he takes part in ISOC global
committees on the Sphere Project ( a project to redesign information flow ) and the in the design of
the Association Management System. He continuously interacts with other ISOC Chapter
Delegates worldwide as also with senior ISOC functionaries for guidance and to contribute to the
ISOC process. He takes part in various discussions on key policy related issues, including issues
related to IPV6 transition and the growth of ICANN.
His interest in the growth and evolution of the Internet stems from an innate desire to contribute
very significantly to the world at large on a macro level. In 1991 he was one of the four delegates
from India to the one of its kind International Model United Nations organized by the Junior
Chambers International and held at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York where he
introduced a spiritedly debated draft resolution to strengthen the United Nations.
He has taken part in the Rotary Group Study Exchange program to Argentina and Paraguay in
1994 and earlier in a short term exchange program to Germany. He has traveled widely in India
and have traveled to Argentina, Brazil, Trinidad & Tobago, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and
Tanzania visited the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Nederland, France,
Switzerland, Italy, Nepal, Singapore, Bangkok, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Korea.
He is taking part in a Diplo Foundation course on Internet Governance Forum so as to gain a depth
of knowledge on Internet issues to take part in the Internet Governance process with the right
understanding. Some of his blogs are http://isocmadras.blogspot.com and
http://wealthyworld.blogspto.com He has published articles at a Citizen Journalism portal on the
Internet Model which experienced a censorship issue and other articles that were well read.
He is a graduate in Business (MBA) from India with 19 years of cross functional business
experience, now giving shape to Turiya, a Start Up in its pre-funding stage, to make Desktop,
Mobile PCs and Mobile Internet Devices around an UNIX operating system. He is a Strategic
planner with vivid conceptual traits, comfortable with technology, especially on a macro scale. He
is an effective communicator & team leader combined with the ability to interact effectively with
people of diverse nationalities worldwide.
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Dear Mr. Muthusamy,
I would like to discuss with you as to how we can become a member of the isoc chennai and use our resources jointly for the betterment of the netizens. Kindly speak to me or give me your contact numbers.
Regards,
R. Ramamurthy, Chairman, Cyber Society of India, 56A, Dr. Ranga Road, Chennai 600 018. Tel: 044-24995058, 94440 19391
contributed by guest@socialtext.net on 2009-07-26 04:41:19 GMT
