Articles of Incorporation for the Globewide Network Academy

FILED
in the Office of the 
Secretary of State of Texas
NOV 18 1993
Corporations Section

Pursuant to article 1396-3.02 of the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act (Volume 3, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) the undersigned incorporator hereby adopts the following Articles of Incorporation.

Article 1. Name

The name of this corporation is the Globewide Network Academy.

Article 2. Registered Agent

The name and address of the registered agent and registered office of this corporation is

Joseph Wang 
2612 Guadalupe
Austin, Texas 78705
United States of America

Article 3. Non-profit Purpose

This corporation is non-profit, and its purpose is to advance education and scholarship, especially by developing and promoting new technologies.

This corporation is organized exclusively for one or more of the purposes as specified in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.

Article 4. Initial Directors

The number of initial directors of this corporation shall be five and the names and addresses of the initial directors are as follows:

Steven Cavrak (carvak@emba.uvm.edu)
Academic Computing Services
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05401
United States of America

Edward J. Moriarty (mory@athena.mit.edu)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue 
Cambridge, MA 02139
United States of America

Dariusz Slawiec,M.Sc. (slawiecd@usctoux1.cto.us.edu.pl)
Global University Poland
40-001 Katowice
P.O.Box 1346
Poland

Marcus Speh (marcus@x4u.desy.de)
II. Institute of Theoretical Physics
Universitaet Hamburg
Luruper Chassee 149
22761 Hamburg / Germany

Joseph Wang
Department of Astronomy
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78705
United States of America

Article 5. Incorporator

The name and address of the incorporator of this corporation is

Joseph Wang
2612 Guadalupe
Austin, Texas 78705
United States of America

Article 6. Duration

The period of the duration of this corporation is perpetual.

Article 7. Members

The classes, rights, privileges, qualifications, and obligations of members of this corporation, if any, are as stated in the bylaws of this corporation.

Article 8. Dissolution

Upon the dissolution of this corporation, its assets remaining after payment or provision for payment, of all debts and liabilities of this corporation shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c (3) of the Internal Revenue Code or shall be distributed to the federal government, or to a state or local government.

Article 9. Tax Exemption Provisions

No substantial part of the activities of this corporation shall consist of carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation except as otherwise provided by Section 501(h) of the Internal Revenue Code, and this corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements), any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office.

No part of the net earnings of this corporation shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to, its members, directors, officers, or other private persons, except that this corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in these Articles.

Notwithstanding any other provision of these Articles, this corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on (1) by a corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or (2) be a corporation contributions to which are deductible under Section 170(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code.

The undersigned incorporators hereby declare under penalty of perjury that the statements made in the foregoing Articles of Incorporation are true. (signed) Joseph Wang

Incorporator - Globewide Network Academy