crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) (12/26/88)
INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER CLUB (ICC)
"Informatique at the service of international dialogue"
101813, Moscow, Center, proyezd Serova, 4 USSR; tel: (095)
924-0787; 921-0902 telex: 411630 San Francisco/Moscow Teleport
Net: "icc" At: Sergei Kurdumov, President Alexander Yegorov,
General Director
ICC-USA: P.O. Box 4028 San Rafael, CA 94913 (415) 472-3493;
telex: 4937174(MC UI) fax: 415/499-0967 San Francisco/Moscow
Teleport Net: "ewexchange" At: Simon Furman, General Manager
San Francisco/ Moscow TELEPORT: 3278 Sacramento Street, San
Francisco, CA 94115 Tel. (415) 931-8500 telex: 9103804097
TELEPORT fax: 415/931-2885; At: Joel Schatz, President,
Chairman of the Board
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Introducing the INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER CLUB
A G R E E M E N T on
the Establishment of the
International Computer Club
The Signatory organizations, hereinafter called "Contracted
Parties",
Governed by the principles proclaimed in the United Nations
Charter,
Desirous under the motto "Informatique at the service of
international dialogue", to:
- create conditions for further social progress,
strengthen peace and
mutural understanding through uniting the efforts of
organizations and individuals of different countries in
expanding and deepening the international ties, mutural
information and trust in modern computer and communication
technologies,
- develop international ties between different
countries on the basis
of tapping the potential of modern computer means and
communication technologies,
- eradicate all forms of information discrimination on
any ground,
- develop information technologies in economically
least developed
countries,
- widely disseminate basic computer literacy and
culture,
- introduce computer technology in all areas of human
activity,
where this is economically feasible and socially relewant,
- promote computer knowledge, particularly among modern
youth,
- introduce principles of computer aesthetics and modes
of work with
information technologies that are most safe for human health,
agreed to follows:
ARTICLE 1.
To establish the International Computer Club (ICC).
The International Computer Club is being established as an
international non-governmental organization to be created and
to function on an independent basis.
The International Computer Club shall be a noncommercial
organization which in its present and future activities shall
not aim at gaining profit for distribution among participants
and which shall utilize all kinds of revenue and profit
comprehensive development, promotion and dissemination of
computer literacy and culture in accordance with its purposes
and objectives.
The International Computer Club shall be opened for
participation of organizations and individuals, irrespective of
their nationality, location or place of living, subject of
their recognition of principles, purposes and objectives of the
International Computer Club.
The International Computer Club undertakes its activities on
the basis of full equality and respect of all organizations and
individuals participating in the ICC.
The seat of the International Computer Club shall be
established at Moscow,
USSR.
ARTICLE 2.
The International Computer Club is being established and shall
undertake its activities in accordance with the terms and
conditions of the present Agreement, the Statute of the ICC
which shall be an integral part of the present Agreement, as
well as rules and regulations issued by the ICC within terms of
reference.
ARTICLE 3.
The International Computer Club shall be a legal entity.
The International Computer Club enjoys the capacity necessary
to perform its functions and fulfill its purposes and
objectives in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
present Agreement and the ICC Statute.
The International Computer Club enjoys the status of the
international organization on the basis of its direct or
indirect recognition in this capacity by the compliment bodies
of States or international organization on the basis of
special agreements reached by the ICC with such bodies.
The legal relations between the International Computer Club and
a host country for the ICC, its affiliates and organizations
established under its auspices shall be governed by appropriate
agreements.
ARTICLE 4.
The International Computer Club has properly of its own which
shall be acquired through:
- entry and membership fees of the ICC participants,
- commercial and other profit-generating activities of
the ICC,
- ad-hoc revenues, donations, testaments, grants and
charities in cash
and in kind from individuals and organizations.
ARTICLE 5.
With the aim to fulfill its purposes and objectives the
International Computer Club performs the following functions:
- promotes the development of new, non-conventional
forms of
business cooperation, inter alias, on multilateral basis,
through cross- representing interests of its participants,
promoting direct contacts between interested enterprises and
organizations, creating necessary conditions for fruitful
co-operation of open, easily accessible data banks of
reference, commercial and other information;
- examines requirements, implications and prospects of
computer
applications (particularly personal computers) including
problems of work place automation, introduction of electronic
mail, compressed video signal transmitting techniques and other
means to promote dialogue between international partners in
economic, scientific, cultural, humanitarian and other fields
of international cooperation;
- utilizes the results of conducted research to provide
ICC
participants, as well as interested organizations with
consultative services packages;
- studies, develops and introduces new active and
flexible forms and
methods of teaching and training on the basis of application of
modern computer technology, promotes general computer culture;
- undertakes studies of the world computer hardware and
software
markets, relevant legislation and customs in different
countries in computer use and application, their management and
organizational experience;
- provides consulate services in marketing,
advertising, copyright
protection, establishment of joint ventures and other related
issues;
- organizes international meetings, conferences,
competitions,
exhibitions and demonstrations of advanced computer technology,
exchange of delegations, professionals and tourists groups
sharing particular interest;
- encourages and provides financial and technical
assistance in
undertaking joint projects, research and development.
ARTICLE 6.
1. The State bodies, establishments and representations,
international organizations, associations enterprises and
organizations established on the State, cooperative, private or
public basis, irrespective of their national origin and
location, as well as individuals who through their professional
and/or public activities, can promote international ties in the
field of modern computer and informatique technology
irrespective of their citizenship or nationality and place of
living may become the participants of the International
Computer Club.
2. The participants of the International Computer Club shall be
founders and members of the ICC.
The Founders shall be the organizations that have signed the
present Agreement and /or that have joined it in the prescribed
manner.
The Members of the International Computer Club shall be
organizations and individuals who have applied for membership
of the ICC and have been admitted in accordance with the ICC
Statute.
3. Membership of the International Computer Club may be
individual and collective.
The collective members of the ICC shall be national and
regional associations of organizations and citizens aiming at
participation in the ICC activities.
The individual members of the International Computer Club have
the rights and bear the responsibilities stipulated in the ICC
Statute.
ARTICLE 7.
The highest governing body of the International Computer Club
which performs general management of the ICC activities shall
be the Council of Founders.
The Council of Founders consists of representatives of all
Founders of the ICC.
The Council of Founders elects the President and two
Vice-Presidents of the International Computer Club.
ARTICLE 8.
The highest executive body of International Computer Club shall
be the Board of Directors headed by the Director-General.
The Director-General shall provide ite immediate management of
the operational activities of the International Computer Club
on the basis of the principle of one-man leadership within his
or her terms of reference and rights stipulated in the Statute
and decisions of the Council of Founders.
The Director-General and his or her deputy are appointed and
relieved of their duties by a decision of the Council of
Founders.
ARTICLE 9.
With the aim of conducting audits of the International Computer
Club activities on the appointment of Council of Founders an
Audit Commission shall be established which will act on the
basis of its terms of reference.
ARTICLE 10.
1. Any organizations wishing to join the Present Agreement and
the International Computer Club as a Founder may file an
application indicating that it shares purposes and principles
of the ICC activities and accepts abligations contained in the
present Agreement and ICC Statute until December 31, 1990.
2. Any organization and any person wishing to join the ICC as a
Member may file an application along the lines mentioned above
but irrespective of its date.
3. The admission to the International Computer Club as a
Founder or as a Member shall be effected by a decision of the
ICC Council of Founders.
A duly certified copy of the decision of the Council of
Founders on the admission to the International Computer Club
shall be transmitted to the organization or the person admitted
as a Founder or as a member of the ICC Statute.
An organization or an individual shall be concidered to become
a participants of the International Computer Club as of the
date of the relevant affirmative decision of the Council of
Founders.
ARTICLE 11.
Every organizations may withdraw from participation in the
International Computer Club and the Present Agreement through
filing notification with the Council of Founders at least six
month in advance. During this period thr mutural claims between
the ICC and the relevant organization should be settled.
ARTICLE 12.
The present Agreement can be altered or its action can be
terminated only by a unanimous decision of all Contracting
Parties, as well as organizations which joined the present
Agreement in a prescribed manner.
In case of cessation of the present Agreement the International
Computer Club shall terminate its activities within a period
and in a manner stipulated by the ICC Council of Founders.
ARTICLE 13.
The present Agreement comes into force upon the date of its
signature.
The present Agreement shall be forwarded for safekeeping to the
All-Union Society "Znanie" which will serve as a Depository.
Done at the City of Moscow, on December "16", 1988, in a single
copy in Russian and English.
Certified copies of the present Agreement shall be transmitted
by the depository to all Contracted Parties.
(signed by):
For the All-Union Society "Znanie"
________________________________ For the USSR Academy of
Sciences
________________________________ For the All-Union Central
Council of Trade Unions
________________________________ For the State Bank of the USSR
________________________________ For the Novisti Press Agency
________________________________ For the AgropromBank of the
USSR
________________________________ For the ZilsotsBank of the
USSR
________________________________ For the PromstroyBank of the
USSR
________________________________ For the Bureau of Machinery
Building of the USSR Council of Ministers
________________________________ For the Main Computing Center
of the USSR Gosagroprom
________________________________ For the Moscow Aviation
Institute
________________________________ For the Moscow Engineering and
Phisical Institute
________________________________ For the Institute of
Theoretical Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences
________________________________ For the Institute of Energy
Research
of the USSR Academy of Sciences and GKNT, USSR
________________________________ For the Scientific and
Production Association "Scientific Center"
________________________________ For the Scientific and
Production Association
"ELAS"
________________________________ For the State Cooperative
Association "ANT-3"
________________________________ For the OPUS Technologys Ltd.
(Great Britain)
________________________________ For the FUTURE COMPUTERS
Systems Ltd. (Great Britain)
________________________________ For the East/West Exchange
(United States)
________________________________ For the SDS Systems (France)