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<DIV>Everyone,</DIV>
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<DIV>I just want to say I am touched by the level of support expressed by
members here for me to continue as Chair of the Internet Governance Civil
Society Co-ordination Group. The members have now confirmed my appointment until
September 2016.</DIV>
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<DIV>I can only say that I will do my utmost to ensure that all civil society
voices are heard, respected, and included. I know that the group of people
representing the various coalitions who are part of this group as voting members
feel the same about this, and by working together I believe we can enhance the
presence and effectiveness of civil society in internet governance – while
maintaining separate stances on issues where we feel differently.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you – I will do my best to justify the endorsement you have given
me.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ian Peter</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mishi@softwarefreedom.org
href="mailto:mishi@softwarefreedom.org">Mishi Choudhary</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 17, 2014 8:14 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=bestbits@lists.bestbits.net
href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [bestbits] Chair of Civil Society Coordination
Group</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>+1 for Ian<BR><BR>On 08/15/2014 07:05 PM, Louis
Pouzin (well) wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I vote for Ian Peter.<BR></DIV>Louis<BR>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <SPAN
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<DIV>Dear Best Bits colleagues,</DIV>
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<DIV>Last year a Civil Society Coordination Group came together to handle
the task of coordinating civil society nominations for the NETmundial
committees. The group still exists although relatively dormant since
then, and its current membership contains the following representatives or
liaisons to the main civil society networks in this space:</DIV>
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<DIV>Chat Garcia Ramilo - APC<BR>Ian Peter - independent chair<BR>Jeremy
Malcolm - Best Bits<BR>Mawaki Chango - IGC<BR>Robin Gross - ICANN
NCSG<BR>Virginia Paque - Diplo Foundation</DIV>
<DIV>Mandeep Tiwana - Civicus*<BR>Norbert Bollow - Just Net
Coalition*<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>* added in 2014</DIV>
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<DIV>Realising the need to improve the composition and processes of the
group, we conducted a straw poll of our networks earlier this year, to gauge
how people thought this should happen. One of the questions in that
straw poll was about how the chair of the group should be selected, and the
most popular choice was "Group will choose a non-voting chair themselves
after a call for volunteers".</DIV>
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<DIV>This is therefore an open call for volunteers who would be willing to
nominate themselves, or suggest someone else, to chair the coordination
group. If you would like more background about the purpose and
composition of the group, please let me know as I can resend you the
information that was provided before the straw poll.</DIV>
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<DIV>We already have at least one nominee, but we would be pleased to
receive more and you may send them on or off-list (please check with the
nominee that they are willing to volunteer first). In anticipation
that joint civil society nominations to IG processes will be required again
soon, I request that you send any nominations within 10 days of today, ie.
by Monday 25 August. Many thanks.</DIV><SPAN class=HOEnZb><FONT
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<DIV>Jeremy Malcolm</DIV>
<DIV>Senior Global Policy Analyst</DIV>
<DIV>Electronic Frontier Foundation</DIV><A href="https://eff.org"
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<DIV>Tel: <A href="tel:415.436.9333%20ext%20161" target=_blank
moz-do-not-send="true" value="+14154369333">415.436.9333 ext 161</A></DIV>
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