WITSA Board of Directors Meeting
08:30-16:20
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Venue: MRG 0.05 and MRG 0.06
Ground Floor; Hyderabad Internationa Convention Centre
Hyderabad, India
Conference Dial-in: Instructions on page 5
Chairman, Ms. Yvonne Chiu
Version19 -Feb 17, 2018
BLOCK 1: STANDING COMMITTEE MEETINGSFinance Committee
Anibal Carmona/Dr. Jim Poisant / 8:30 – 9:00
COFFEE BREAK / 9:00–09:15
BLOCK2: BOD MEETING/INTRODUCTION & REPORTS
Chairman’s Welcome/Ms. Yvonne Chiu / 09:15 –09:20
Self-Introductions / Roll Call /Anders Halvorsen / 09:20 –09:30
Welcoming Remarks/ NASSCOM President, R. Chandrasheker/Status on WCIT 2018 / 09:30-09:35
Call to Order / Approval of Minutes /Dr.Jim Poisant / 09:35–09:40
Treasurers Report/Dr. Jim Poisant / Tarek Taha / 09:40-09:50
Update Nizar Zakka/Dr. Jim Poisant / 09:50-09:55
WITSA’s Business Plan and Budget/Dr. Jim Poisant / 09:55-10:00
BLOCK 3: DISCUSSION / 10:00 – 11:15
9. / 1)Status on WCIT 2022 Bids
Australia?
2)World Congresses/Status on Future World Congresses –(2019/2020/2021) Dr Jim Poisant/Host representatives
3)ASOCIO/WITSA 2018- David Wong
4)WITSA’sAssociation Corner/B2B Portal Program/Sabur Kahn/Cathryn Rose
5)UpdateTaiwan Office - Dr Jim Poisant/Chairman Chiu/WITSA’s Role of Serving as an Aggregator for members
6)Juiker Presentation/Dr Paul Huang
7)Central Asia, IGF and ICANN (Mr Omar Ansari)
8)Membership Recruitment UpdateAction Plan
Cathryn Rose
9)Open Discussion- Association Management
(Association Revenue Sources)
David Wong/Dr. Jim Poisant
COFFEE BREAK / 11:15-11:30
BLOCK 4: BOD DECISIONS
10. / DIRECTOR REPLACEMENTS
1) ARMENIA-Replace Mr Hayk Chobanyan with Mr.Alexander Yesayan –Remarks
2) NIGERIA-ReplaceMr. Dele Ajisomo with Mr. Olutayo Adeniyi
Remarks
DISCUSSION & VOTE
3) WITSA Business Certification Program/ Dr. Jim Poisant
DISCUSSION & VOTE
4) EITESAL EGYPT Proposal/Tarek Taha / 11:30-13:00
LUNCH / 13:00-14:00
11. / Summary of 2018 Membership Survey
Anders Halvorsen / 14:00-14:10
12. / WITSA ICT Excellence Awards
Anders Halvorsen
-Status 2018/2019WITSA Global ICT Excellence Awards
-Call for members: Awards Review Committee / 14:10 – 14:15
13. / WITSA MoU with Inclusite
Anders Halvorsen/Jim Poisant / 14:15-14:20
14. / WITSA MoU with ITU
Jim Poisant/Yvonne Chiu / 14:20-14:35
15. / Standing Committee Update
GPAC
Mr. R. Chandrashekhar/Anders Halvorsen / 14:35-15:35
16. / INDIA-Replace R Chandrasheker with Ms Debjani Ghosh– Remarks
(Special Recognition) / 15:35-15:40
17. / Promoting International Partnership and Supporting IT Industry and Education
- Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) and Lexicon PR Management Service contract signing (delivering Armath robotics engineering laboratories for Indian schools)
Ms. Ramma Luthra, Managing Director, Lexicon PR Management Service
Mr. Alex Yesayan, UITE President
Mr. Karen Vardanyan, UITE Executive Director
BLOCK 5: MEETING CALENDAR & ADJOURNMENT
18. /
- Fall 2018, Yarevan, Aremnia (General Assembly
(Dates to be determined) - Spring 2019, Minsk, Belarus (Dates to be Determined)
- Fall 2019: In connection with the October 1-5 WCIT in Yerevan, Armenia.
19. / Open Discussion
- Chairman Emeritus engagement
- Mr. Yannis Sirros
20. / Adjournment
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BOD Meeting, Hyderabad, India
Sunday, Feb 18, 2018 8:30 AM
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