Satish Babu
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| Country: | India |
| Email: | sbabu [at] ieee.org |
| LinkedIn: |  Satish Babu
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| Twitter: |  @satish_babu
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Satish Babu is a past President of the Computer Society of India[1], where he held charge during 2012-13. During his tenure, he was instrumental in making CSI an At-Large Structure of ICANN. He was the Founding Director of the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software[2], working there from 2011 through 2015 while on his Sabbatical. He is also the Founder-Chair of ISOC India Trivandrum Chapter (ISOC-TRV)[3]
Satish was elected to the ICANN NomCom in June 2014, and successfully completed two terms in the NomCom (2014, 2015). He is a Co-Chair of the ALAC Working Group on IDNs. He was a Vice Chair of APRALO during 2014-16, and was elected as APRALO Chair in Sep 2016. He was a member of working groups such as the Meeting Strategy Working Group and several ATLAS-II related WGs. He is also the Co-Chair on the ALAC Committee on the Global Public Interest.
Satish is associated with IEEE in various capacities, ISOC, IGF (which he has been attending since 2009) and several NGOs, particularly those dealing with Disaster Response & Resilience and livelihoods development. He is an early user and advocate of the Internet, having used it since 1993. He set up and ran FishNet, one of the earliest free email services in India, in 1994[4].
Satish is a founderand key organizer of the India School of Internet Governance (https://insig.in), which has been organized in 2016 (Hyderabad) and 2017 (Trivandrum). Future editions are scheduled for New Delhi (2018), Kolkata (2019) and Mumbai (2020).
Other Positions Held[edit | edit source]
- Past President of the South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC)
- Member, IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (2017, 2018)
- Member and Secretary, ISOC Chapter Advisory Committee Steering Committee (2018)
- First Chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technologies (SIGHT, 2012-13)
- Member of MGA Board, IEEE Computer Society (2013)
- Member NomCom, IEEE Computer Society (2012)
- Asia-Pacific Cordinator, Geographic Activities, IEEE Computer Society (2009-2013)
- Chair, Distinguished Visitor Program, IEEE Computer Society (2012,2013)
Interests and Prior Jobs[edit | edit source]
- Promoter and President, InApp Information Technologies [5], 1999-
- Founder-Director, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), 2011-2015
- Executive & Chief Executive, South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS), 1984-1999. SIFFS is an NGO of small-scale artisanal fishers of South India.
- Worked with several social initiatives and NGOs in the early part of career (1984-1999). Later, during 2005-2007, worked in the civil society response to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in its rescue, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction phases in Kerala and Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu in South India
A full profile is available in Wikipedia[6].