<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Sunday 05 January 2014 11:44 AM, Ian
Peter wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:ED042ACEDBBD40B6B2C20C7FC9CAF9FA@Toshiba"
type="cite">
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<div dir="ltr">
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR:
#000000">
<div>Parminder, I think you answered your own question when
you stated</div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">“However, I do agree that it
is a very good practice to make all nominations, with
supporting material, open to the various lists, which can
be seen by all...”</font></div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">which I think is what Jeremy
was also suggesting as well. But to make things clear,
there is no beauty contest process involved, and multiple
lists are involved in calling for nominations, all of
which may be a little different in the way they go about
this.</font></div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman">Thanks Ian for the explanation...
Although , Jeremy clearly suggested a 'discussion' on names, and
'gauging' f support' for different names. But good to know from
you that this is not a part of the process or anything.</font> <br>
<br>
parminder<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:ED042ACEDBBD40B6B2C20C7FC9CAF9FA@Toshiba"
type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR:
#000000">
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">Ian</font></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri';
FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal;
TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline">
<div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma">
<div> </div>
<div style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5">
<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
title="parminder@itforchange.net"
href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder</a>
</div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 05, 2014 4:20 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
title="bestbits@lists.bestbits.net"
href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>
</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [bestbits] Re: Call to Best
Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting
committees</div>
</div>
</div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri';
FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal;
TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline">
<div> </div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 02 January 2014
02:43 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:52C52DA7.30000@ciroap.org" type="cite">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This is a reminder to put
forward your names for selection for the Brazil meeting
committees by midnight UTC 7 January 2014, per the
procedure given below.<br>
<br>
Regarding the draft selection criteria originally
posted, a few others were raised on this list, of which
one had fairly wide support, that "the nominee brings in
perspectives/ representation of groups typically
under-represented in global IG processes, and
demonstrate existing linkages and work in this regard"
(but the comment was also made that this should not be
applied to give undue weight to minority views). The
arguments for and against this additional criterion have
been well ventilated and the coordinating group will
take what it can from this discussion.<br>
<br>
Surprisingly though we haven't actually had too many
actual names put forward as nominees for the two
committees (I have received a couple privately, but it
is much better that they are discussed on the list, so
that support for the names can be gauged). So please do
take the opportunity over the next few days to put your
name or someone else's forward, if you would like to
give input into the composition of the groups.<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
I am not sure what part of the process includes "gauging
support on open lists". I request clarification from Ian if
this is a part of the process or not... We need to be very
particular and fastidious about such processes. It was
announced that names may be sent by 7th to be considered by
the CS coordination committee... i read nothing about a
beauty contest on open lists as being a part of the process.
For the record, I am happy to have a process of open online
voting being adopted for nominee selection, and even for
such a voting to be an open voting. What I protest about is
ad hoc ism of processes, as important as those involving
nominations. If "gauging support on open list" is not a part
of the process it should explicitly be given no weight -age.
And if it is a part, it should be openly announced, and all
potential candidates given equal opportunity... Although I
find such a process quite odd, for many reasons, like, some
kinds of people are less open to sending emails about
specific supports than others, and - well, Jeremy, since you
speak of a discussion on the list - people would hardly '
discuss' people openly... <br>
<br>
However, I do agree that it is a very good practice to make
all nominations, with supporting material, open to the
various lists, which can be seen by all...<br>
<br>
parminder <br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:52C52DA7.30000@ciroap.org" type="cite">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
On 22/12/13 13:31, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:88A07EC6-71FC-498A-932E-80B84171C94F@ciroap.org"
type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">This
is a call for nominations to represent civil society
on planning committees in preparations for the “Global
Multistakeholder Meeting on Internet Governance”, to
be held in Sao Paulo Brazil </span><a
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"
href="x-apple-data-detectors://0"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="0"
x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event"
x-apple-data-detectors="true" moz-do-not-send="true">on
April 23</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust:
auto">and 24 2014.</span><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><b
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">• Committee
No. 1: Multistakeholder HighLevel Committee (HLC)</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">This
committee will set the high level political tone
and objectives of the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">conference.
Committee members will engage on a global level with
stakeholders to</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">encourage
participation in the conference and maximize its
chances of success.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">This
committee will include 4 civil society
representatives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">• <b>Committee
No. 3: Multistakeholder Executive Committee (EC)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">This
committee owns the full responsibility of organizing
the event, including: defining</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">conference
purpose/agenda, managing invitations, organizing
input received into a coherent set of proposals for
the conferees to address, managing conference
proceedings and process, and directing all
communications activities pre/during/post
conference. This committee will include 2 civil
society representatives</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The deadline
for submitting expressions of interest is <strong>midnight
UTC</strong> <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="1"
x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event"
x-apple-data-detectors="true"
moz-do-not-send="true">7</a><b><a
href="x-apple-data-detectors://1"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="1"
x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event"
x-apple-data-detectors="true"
moz-do-not-send="true"> January 2014</a></b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">If you are
interested, you are invited to send a brief
biography and a statement of relevant background and
experience to <a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">jeremy@ciroap.org</a> or by
replying to this thread. At the closing date for
nominations, those submitted to various civil
society networks will be compiled and assessed by
the Civil Society Co ordination Group.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Please
indicate clearly at the beginning of your
application whether it is for the High Level
Committee (HLC) or Executive Committee (EC) or both.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">CRITERIA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The following
factors (among others) will be used to assess the
suitability of candidates</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0px"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">1. Able
to represent civil society as a whole, not just your
individual civil society organisation(s)</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0px"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">2. Able
to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups
in a multistakeholder setting</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0px"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">3. Able
to consult widely with civil society groups and to
report back as the process progresses</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0px"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">4.
Ability to represent civil society at a senior level
in these discussions</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0px"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">5. Broad
knowledge of internet governance issues and the
range of civil society perspectives on these issues</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0px"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">6.
Capacity to participate assertively and creatively</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="MARGIN: 0cm
0cm 0pt 36pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0px"><span
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </p>
<div>
<div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Explanation
of process</b></div>
<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The
civil society coordinating group is a loose peak
body that came together this year to facilitate
joint civil society participation in several
nominating processes. It currently comprises
persons from the most active civil society
coalitions or networks in the Internet governance
space, which in no particular order are the
Internet Governance Caucus, Diplo Foundation, Best
Bits, the Non Commercial Stakeholder Group of
ICANN, and the Association for Progressive
Communications. The current liaisons are Virginia
Paque, Jeremy Malcolm, Robin Gross and Chat Garcia
Ramilo, with Ian Peter as an independent
facilitator. Its current composition is imperfect
- the boundary between an organisation and network
is grey, and so is the scope of "Internet
governance". In particular, we are reaching out
to other civil society networks to further broaden
the inclusiveness of the group and have developed
a draft set of criteria to assist in this process.</span></div>
<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"></span> </div>
<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Likewise,
the process for gathering and reaching consensus
is also a work in progress, but progressive
improvements to the process have been put in place
since the group's first nomination. These
improvements include refinement of criteria for
each member network to consider when putting
forward names for consideration. Other suggested
changes to the process, such as the use of a
randomly-selected nominating committee, have not
met with consensual support from within the group
and so have not been adopted for this nomination.
However, the coordinating group welcomes other
suggestions for improvement of the joint process.</span></div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black"><b>Dr Jeremy
Malcolm<br>
Senior Policy Officer<br>
Consumers International | the global campaigning
voice for consumers</b><br>
Office for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East<br>
Lot 5-1 Wisma WIM, 7 Jalan Abang Haji Openg, TTDI,
60000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br>
Tel: +60 3 7726 1599</p>
<!--<p style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><b>Your rights, our mission – download CI's Strategy 2015:</b> <a href="http://consint.info/RightsMission">http://consint.info/RightsMission</a></p>-->
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black">Explore our new
Resource Zone - the global consumer movement knowledge
hub | <a
href="http://www.consumersinternational.org/news-and-media/resource-zone"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.consumersinternational.org/news-and-media/resource-zone</a></p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: black">@Consumers_Int |
<a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.consumersinternational.org</a>
| <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/consumersinternational"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.facebook.com/consumersinternational</a></p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #999999">Read our <a
href="http://www.consumersinternational.org/email-confidentiality"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">email
confidentiality notice</a>. Don't print this email
unless necessary.</p>
<p><strong><span style="COLOR: red">WARNING</span></strong><span
style="COLOR: black">: This email has not been
encrypted. You are strongly recommended to enable
PGP or S/MIME encryption at your end. For
instructions, see <a href="http://jere.my/l/8m"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://jere.my/l/8m</a>.</span></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<p>
</p>
<hr>
____________________________________________________________<br>
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>.<br>
To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits">http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits</a></div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
</body>
</html>