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<div>With apologies for the delay in posting about this (due to
travel and other deadlines), this is to note that if you are
interested in volunteering as a civil society representative on
the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) in the coming
year, you may have heard that nominations are being taken until
1 December. You can self-nominate, but there is some advantage
to be had in having your nomination forwarded and supported by
other civil society groups. There are a number of choice in
that regard, and for those of you who have closer ties to the
Internet Governance Caucus, Diplo or the Internet Rights and
Principles Coalition for example, you may want to explore those
options.</div>
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<div>Otherwise, Best Bits has also been developing a draft process
for nominating representatives to external groups, which may
suit those who aren't primarily associated with the other civil
society groups or networks. The process is still open for
discussion on the procedure wiki at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures/">http://bestbits.net/wiki/main/procedures/</a>. The process, which
is very loose compared to the IGC's more formal procedure,
simply provides as follows:</div>
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<li>The steering committee shall call for expressions of
interest on the main list.</li>
<li>Selection criteria will be decided on a case-by-case basis
and will be shared when the steering committee publicises
the call, but at a very minimum geographical diversity (if
not balance) and gender balance should be taken into
account.</li>
<li>The steering committee will select a proposed slate of
nominees, taking into account those who expressed interest.</li>
<li>The proposed nominees will be posted back to the main list
and approved by consensus.</li>
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<div>Although the process was mentioned in Bali, we didn't have
time to discuss it in detail. I feel, personally, that we
should at least test it out. If it doesn't work, then there
is another option - see below - which involves working with
other civil society networks to jointly collaborate on putting
forward slates of nominees. But the idea behind having a Best
Bits procedure as that it provides a simpler way for us all to
get behind and amplify the efforts of those who wish to serve
civil society in an Internet governance committee or forum.
The steering committee's role is meant to be very light, just
to ensure balance.</div>
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<div>In the longer term, an idea being explored is to have an
umbrella process among the whole of civil society, which
hasn't existed since the WSIS days. Hopefully that might be
in place by the time we need to add or replace representatives
to the I* coalition/dialogue, and when nominating various
representatives for the Brazil summit. In that regard, I have
suggested a draft process,[0] which we can go on to discuss on
whatever list ends up being used for the summit discussion
(this needs to be finally resolved, and Deborah will post
about the options soon. My two cents: post to whichever list
you prefer).</div>
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<div>As a step towards that, we could ask the IGC to include our
nominees in their slate also, though under the IGC charter the
names would require further consideration by their nominating
committee... so we should also submit list of names separately.
(If you have views on this, please feel free to express them.)</div>
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<div>Since some people seem unsure who the interim steering
committee are, a reminder that it is Andrew Puddephatt (Global
Partners), Anja Kovacs (Internet and Democracy Project), Deborah
Brown (Access), myself (Consumers International), Joana Varon
Ferraz (FGV/CTS), Marianne Franklin (individual/IRP coalition),
Nnenna (World Wide Web Foundation) and Valeria Betancourt (APC).
We have a procedure for choosing a new steering committee, and
that also needs to be tested out - though a general preference
expressed by a number of people in Bali was that we should not
rush into this, when it could be useful to have continuity at
least over the next few months leading to the Brazil summit.
Perhaps after the interim steering committee has been in place
for one year, it may be a good time to renew it - just in my
personal opinion.</div>
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<div>So, I've asked the rest of the steering committee to help
come up with some suggestions for criteria, and we'll follow up
with those soon. Meanwhile, if you are interested in being
included in a Best Bits slate, you can email
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:steering@lists.bestbits.net">steering@lists.bestbits.net</a>. Note, this doesn't mean you can't
(also) self-nominate, or nominate through the IGC or another
process.</div>
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<div>[0] <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•
Develop criteria for civil society networks that could form a
loose peak body.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Outreach
to the relevant networks to agree to form that peak body,
initially with one representative each (chosen per their own
procedures).<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Peak
body suggests a list of criteria for nominations (including
transparency and accountability requirements), which their
constituents approve.<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Members
of peak body use their own network's procedures to put its
nominees into a shortlist.<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•
Peak body applies those criteria to develop a joint final list
of nominees.</div>
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