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Satish Babu (Sathees Babu C.S, born: 1961) is a Free Software activist, Internet advocate and development professional based out of Kerala, India. He is the founding Director of the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), an autonomous academic/research institution of the Government of Kerala, India, where he worked from March 2011 〔http://apnnews.com/2011/02/26/satish-babu-to-head-icfoss/〕 to September 2015. He was earlier was the CEO of SIFFS, a co-founder and President of InApp Information Technologies, and is associated with several national and international professional societies. Satish Babu was the President of the Computer Society of India, assuming office for a year from 1 April 2012.〔http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article3293810.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home〕 Prior to this, he was elected the Vice President and President-elect for 2011-12. He chairs the Special Interest Group on FOSS (SIG-FOSS) of CSI. In 2014, he was elevated as a Golden Jubilee Fellow of CSI.〔http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Named-Fellow-of-CSI/2014/11/14/article2521656.ece〕 Satish Babu was the President of the South-East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC 〔http://www.searcc.org/about-searcc/management/president〕) during 2012, representing CSI. SEARCC is a regional grouping of national computer societies in Asia-Pacific, with seven full members (Australia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan) and six observer states. He was the Chair of IEEE Kerala Section 〔http://www.ieeekerala.org/about/executive-committee.html〕 during 2011 & 2012, and held several international positions in IEEE Computer Society, including Member, 2012 Nominations Committee 〔http://www.computer.org/portal/web/volunteercenter/nominations;jsessionid=1296e05733c9aa2619f07861e8c9〕 and the R10 (Asia-Pacific) Co-ordinator of Geographic Operations.〔http://www.computer.org/portal/web/chapters/board〕 In 2014, he headed the Awards and Recognitions Committee (ARC) of the MGAB of IEEE Computer Society. He was declared as a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society in 2011.〔http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/goldencore〕 In November 2013, Satish was awarded the IEEE MGA Achievement Award "...for continuous efforts in member engagement and development by promoting humanitarian technologies and fostering collaboration between the IEEE Computer Society and the Computer Society of India."〔http://www.ieee.org/societies_communities/geo_activities/awards/recipients/recipients_achievement.html〕 Satish has been active in Internet Governance since the 2009 IGF. He was a Fellow of the 2012 European Summer School in Internet Governance (EuroSSIG). He is associated with ICANN since 2012 and with ISOC since 2015. == Education == Satish Babu studied at Sainik School, Kazhakuttam, Trivandrum, Kerala, for his Higher Secondary Examination (1977), graduated in the four-year program in Dairy Technology from the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI),〔http://www.ndri.res.in/〕 Karnal, under Kurukshetra University (1982), and passed his Post-graduate studies at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA),〔http://www.irma.ac.in〕 Gujarat, in 1984. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Satish Babu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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