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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I second that. Carol is a strong advocate for developing countries, particularly Latin America. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>She is a proud Brazilian when it comes to work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carolina<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 08, 2014 5:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> Ian Peter<br><b>Cc:</b> Ian Peter; <bestbits@lists.bestbits.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [bestbits] Shortlists for Brazil for further consideration<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Btw... I am Brazilian and even leaving in US, I have TONS of work in developing world, my day by day work is focused on developing work, and just moved to the US because my husband is american. I do TONS of pro bono work on A2K, education, and ICTs in Brazil and other Latin American and South Asia countries. So it is NOT true I would not represent a developing country view.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am very honored by the votes and the trust.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:02 PM, "Ian Peter" <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>OMG... clearly not meant for this list and my sincere apologies to everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>this was an awful mistake on my part... <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" title="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">Ian Peter</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Thursday, January 09, 2014 7:43 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" title="bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> [bestbits] Shortlists for Brazil for further consideration<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Thanks everyone for prompt replies – below is a summary of your responses and the candidates still under consideration (although there is nothing to stop us bringing forward other names later on if we want to)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>HLC<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Carolina Rossini – 3.5 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Jovan K – 3 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Mark Rotenberg – 3 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Joana Varon 2.5 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Milton Mueller 2 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Parminder Singh 2 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Stephanie Perrin 1 vote<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Louis Pouzin 1 vote<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Marilia Maciel 1 vote<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>SOME COMMENTS AND ISSUES<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The brief here is </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black'>“T</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>his committee will set the high level political tone and objectives of the</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>conference. Committee members will engage on a global level with stakeholders to</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>encourage participation in the conference and maximize its chances of success” </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Bear in mind also that (my paraphrasing) the aim of the meeting seems to be to develop a set of high level principles for Internet Governance. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>We dont know yet whether we need 3 or 4 candidates, and probably wont know till Saturday. I think our aim between now and then should be to try and narrow down our field a bit and eliminate some names if possible. But in doing so:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Carolina Rossini, Jovan K and Marc Rotenberg got the most support initially – not that we need to be bound by this. They are all impressive candidates.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>If Marc was in, we probably couldn’t include Milton – 2 US males would not be a good decision politically. Milton also probably fits as an academic – but as he is likely to be running the process to select academic candidates, he may not be able to include himself. Maybe we should seek clarification here?</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>If Carolina was in, we probably wouldn’t include Joana or Marilia</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>None of our first 3 would be considered to be a strong advocate for third world issues. If we thought it was important to include someone with this perspective, the choices would be Louis Pouzin or Parminder Singh. Parminder has indicated he would step down in favour of Louis Pouzin, and we may need to consider that Parminder is a member of the CI (Community Informatics) Nomcom also considering candidates for these very same positions (but with about 6 candidates and very little chance of their nominees being accepted) . That may be perceived as a conflict of interest, or we could ignore it. But some people have already suggested to me informally that Parminder has a conflict of interest here. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Also to just note re Stephanie Perrin – if Marc Rotenberg was in we might consider we have privacy issues well covered; but if in our final slate we wanted to include Milton and leave Marc out to not have too many male US citizens Stephanie is an option to cover privacy. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>So lots of issues.Let’s discuss and see if we can narrow down a little while we await info as to whether we need 3 or 4 names.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>EC<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Marilia Maciel 3.5 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Adam Peake 3 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Joana Varon 2 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Nadira Alaraj 1.5 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Carolina Rossini 1.5 votes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Stephanie Perrin 1 vote<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Norbert Bollow 1 vote<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Birgitta Jonsdottr .5<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Parminder Singh .5<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>SOME COMMENTS AND ISSUES<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>The brief here is “This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the event, including: defining 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><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>I think we need to determine HLC before finalising here. However Marilia and Adam have the strongest support at this stage. We again face the issue here of having a strong advocate for third world issues as a factor in deciding our final 2. </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Over to you all for comments, suggestions, and attempts to narrow this down further!</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Ian Peter</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='WORD-WRAP: break-word'><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>.<br>To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:<br> <a href="http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits">http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>.<br>To unsubscribe or change your settings, visit:<br> <a href="http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits">http://lists.bestbits.net/wws/info/bestbits</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>