IPv6 World Launch Day Celebration

To strengthen local capacity on IPv6 deployment, experiment, and operation by enabling internet stakeholders and organizations that serve them ISOC India Kolkata Chapter celebrated the IPv6 World Launch day on June 6th, 2012 in style. There were multiple events done during the same day. The world IPv6 launch day started with a meeting where Anupam Agrawal, Chair Internet Society Kolkata Chapter and Anand Raje, VP Membership and the government officials of WEBEL (nodal agency for IT in the state of West Bengal) participated. The discussions were around the readiness of the state agency on IPv6 and it was heartening to note that the state agency is an APNIC member and has been allotted with a block of IPv6 addresses and the discussions were centred around further capacity building. The next stop was a presentation on IPv6 to the professors of multi discipline at MCKV college of Engineering wherein Anupam and Anand presented on the IPv6. From there the team went on to celebrate the day with the other chapter members and other stakeholders at Saturday Club where a compendium titled “IPv6 – The Way Forward for India” was released. The compendium has essays on IPv6 submitted by the chapter members and comments on IPv6 adoption from various stakeholders of Internet ranging from local CIOs to Civil Society Members to academicians to entrepreneurs. The pdf version of the compendium is being uploaded on ISOC Kolkata Chapter website.

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Meeting with the Government officials at WEBEL in Kolkata India on IPv6 readiness.

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Seminar on IPv6 awareness with the faculty members of MCKV College of Engineering

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Celebration of World Ipv6 Launch day with chapter members and the release of Compendium IPv6 The way forward for India

One Web Day @ RCC Institute of Information Technology

Celebration of ONE WEB DAY on 22nd September 2011 at RCCIIT

OneWebDay (OWD) is an all-volunteer campaign to build an active community of internet users around the world. Originally imagined as a celebration of www- the services and content the Internet carries – OWD has grown into a movement of organizations, citizens and consumers who are committed to universal and equal access to the Internet and is celebrated on 22nd September every year.
In 2010 it was celebrated engaging Student community in a blogging competition along with a discussion on IPv6 implementation which is the core for further expansion of Internet.
This year, ISOC Kolkata Chapter in collaboration with Computer Society of India (CSI), Kolkata Chapter & RCCITT celebrated the OneWebDay by organizing a seminar on 22nd September, 2011 at RCCIIT premises.

Theme of Seminar: Internet Privacy

Speakers:
• Prof. (Dr. Saikat Maitra), Officer-in-Charge, RCCIIT gave the welcome speech
• Mr. Anupam Agarwal, Associate Consultant, TCS and Chair, ISOC, Kolkata Chapter discussed on the days’ theme “Internet Privacy”
• Mr. Hrishikesh Bhowmick, Assistant Professor of IT Department gave a presentation on “Legal frame work for Data protection”

A Panel Discussion was held on the topic “Privacy – How relevant is it for India?’ Participating members were:
• Mr. Anupam Agarwal, Associate Consultant, TCS and Chair, ISOC, Kolkata Chapter
• Mr. Susanta Sinha, Consultant, TCS and Chair, CSI, Kolkata Chapter
• Mr. Anand Raje, Director, RABT Technologies (P) Ltd. and VP-membership, Internet Society
• Mr. Niel Hirjee, Director, Calport Technologies and Vice Chair, ISOC
• Mr. Hrishikesh Bhowmick, Assistant Professor, Department of IT, RCCIIT
• Mr. Pratik Jain, 2nd Year MCA Student

The seminar was successfully organized with total 72 student participants from RCCIIT, 11 faculty members from RCCIIT, 1 faculty members of IESWM, 2 faculty member from MCKVIE and 15 members of CSI. Participation certificates issued by ISOC and CSI were distributed to all the participants.

Students Speak

It was very good opportunity to be a part of OneWebDay celebration with a seminar conducted in our college in collaboration with Internet Society (ISOC) – India Kolkata Chapter and Computer Society of India (CSI), Kolkata Chapter, on 22nd September, 2011.

This seminar raised among us the awareness on the privacy and security of data in the Internet. It gave us an awareness of the birth of Internet which was unknown to most of us. The seminar was interactive as well as informative. If we get an opportunity to attend in this type of seminar in near future then we are glad to attend it.
Debasmita Saha, Student of MCA 3rd year

Talk on ‘Activities and Opportunities for Engagement with the IETF’

Internet Society India Kolkata Chapter organized a talk on ‘Activities and Opportunities for Engagement with the IETF’ held by Internet Society Fellow Vinayak Hegde, on Saturday 26 of February, 2011 from 16:30 to 19:30 IST at the Calcutta Club.
This was probably the first time that the IETF had been introduced to the netizens of Kolkata and attendance consisted primarily of academics and CIOs of local organizations. Vinayak talked about how the IETF works, the work it does, his personal experiences with the IETF and the ways in which Internet Society members can participate and contribute to the Internet protocol standards process.
In response to Vinakay’s statement that ‘everyone must play nicely’ for the Internet to work, the audience was particularly interested in the IETF and the Internet Society’s stance and response to the Internet outage in Egypt. Anupam Agarwal, Anand Raje and Niel Hirjee provided input from time to time on issues which fell outside the scope of the IETF discussion.
An Internet Society member from Ghazipur, Sri Narendra Kumar Rai of Ashok Sansthan was invited to say a few words about his organization and its activities. He outlined the diverse, award winning projects undertaken by Ashok Sansthan and invited the Internet Society India Kolkata Chapter (and also other Internet Society Chapters in India) to collaborate with Ashok Sansthan to spread awareness about the internet in the Ghazipur region of Uttar Pradesh.
The entire event was streamed live, a first for the Chapter. Five registered users and a few unregistered users viewed the event remotely.
After the formal conclusion of the talk a small group of participants cornered Vinayak and continued their discussions until we were politely reminded that the hall was required for the next event.
Travel and accommodation expenses for Sri Narendra Kumar Rai and Vinayak Hegde were reimbursed by the Chapter. More events of this kind should be conducted to spread awareness and encourage participation in the IETF from this part of the world.