page_title: Satish Babu
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Satish Babu / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Satish Babu speaking at Vietnam Internet Day 2018 at Hanoi on 5 Dec 2018.
context_page_description: Satish Babu is a Free Software activist, early 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, an autonomous academic/research institution of the Government of Kerala, India, where he worked from March 2011 to September 2015. He was earlier the CEO of SIFFS, an NGO of small-scale artisanal fishers of south India; a co-founder and President of InApp Information Technologies; and is associated with international and national professional societies such as IEEE, Internet Society, ICANN, and the Computer Society of India.
  Satish has been active in Internet Governance since the 2009 IGF. He was a Fellow of the 2012 European Summer School in Internet Governance. He is associated with ICANN since 2012 and with ISOC as a member since 2009. He was appointed the Interim Chair of the Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization of ICANN in Sep 2016, elected as Chair in Nov 2016, and re-elected in May 2018.
context_section_description: After his post-graduation in 1984, Satish Babu joined the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS), an NGO working with small-scale artisanal fishers of South India, and a fledgling at that time. He worked there for 17 years, initially as Executive and later on as CEO. SIFFS, under his leadership was one of the earliest organizations to utilize computers, especially for its commercial activities such as boat building and Outboard Motor programmes. SIFFS was part of several international networks. As a part of one such network, ICSF, Satish organized the first-ever Internet training for fishers in Latin America at the Catholic University of Lima, Lima, Peru, in May 1997, a very early example of South-South knowledge transfer in ICTs.
  In 1999, he, jointly with three other colleagues, founded InApp Information Technologies, now a CMMI Level 5 IT Services Company with offices in US, Japan and Europe, and a development centre at Technopark, Trivandrum. He was on Sabbatical to ICFOSS as its founding Director during 2011–15.
caption: Satish Babu speaking at Vietnam Internet Day 2018 at Hanoi on 5 Dec 2018.
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