<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Nadira,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for sharing this news and we at Bytes for All are really pleased to see Sheetal’s nomination and fully endorse this, wishing her all the best. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Tehmina </div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22-Aug-2016, at 2:46 pm, Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" class="">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear Best Bits members,<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm please to pass to you the 2nd Best Bits candidate Sheetal Kumar for the 2 representatives to the CSCG.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please to those who are still thinking to come forward for this role, please do come forward by the end of the day. <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best wishes,<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Nadira<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""> </div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sheetal Kumar</b> <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:sheetal@gp-digital.org" class="">sheetal@gp-digital.org</a>></span><br class="">Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:00 AM<br class="">Subject: Re: [bestbits] Kind Reminder Re: Call for 2 Best Bits representatives to the CSCG<br class="">To: Nadira Alaraj <<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" class="">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear Nadira, <br class=""><br class=""></div>Thank you for sharing the call and for all your work thus far! Please find below my nomination for<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div> CSCG as Representative of Best Bits. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to let me know.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Sheetal<br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<wbr class="">------------------------------<wbr class="">------------------------------<wbr class="">------------------------------<wbr class="">------------------------------<wbr class="">------------------------------<wbr class="">-----------------<br class=""><div class=""><p class="">Sheetal currently works at Global Partners Digital where she
provides strategic oversight for an internet freedom programme to
protect and promote human rights online. She
is firmly committed to transparent and inclusive internet governance
processes and has in the past year, been part of civil society advocacy
at the WSIS+10 Review, where she participated in panels at the
WSIS Forum and the Informal Interactive WSIS Stakeholder
Consultation
as well as at the IGF. She is also committed to facilitating
regional-level advocacy
efforts, including for example through the African Declaration
Declaration for Internet Rights and Freedoms, having recently
participated at a side session on internet rights at the NGO Forum to
the ACHPR. As part of work to
promote a
greater diversity of voices and a human rights perspective in internet
governance, she has
overseen the publication of resources on cybersecurity policy and human
rights, a resource of case studies on civil society participation in
internet governance and an introduction to the UNHRC's UPR for human
rights online. Her involvement and direct engagement in processes has
allowed her to gain a familiarity
with the main issues and trends in internet policy and an understanding
of the opportunities
and challenges that the current internet governance system presents for
public interest, human rights and civil society voices. <br class=""></p><p class="">Sheetal holds an MSc in Media, Communications and Development from
the London School of Economics and an MA in International Relations with
French from the University of St Andrews. Her studies included global
internet and communications policy, the evolution of the internet,
communication for development, media in the global South and more
broadly, theories relating to power, media and communications and
technology.</p><p class="">Promoting participatory, inclusive and democratic policy processes,
and developing effective communication across communities has always
been the impetus of her work. Before joining GPD, Sheetal worked
for the Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), managed
communications for the Senegalese health organisation, Enda Santé and
provided support to the Knowledge Management Department of UNESCO West
Africa’s
regional headquarters. In a previous life, she was an editor for an HIV/AIDS charity educational website and English language
teacher. <br class=""></p>
</div>.<br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class=""><div class="h5"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 August 2016 at 13:56, Nadira Alaraj <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="">Dear All,<br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="">Thanks Jeremy for his email in encouraging you to support Civil Society candidates to the IGF and other related International bodies by coming forward and consider volunteering to the role of Internet Governance Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) as Representative of Best Bits. The current CSCG found having two representatives from each collation works better.<br class=""> <br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="">I will extend the nomination period until <b class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline" class=""></div>Monday, <span class=""> </span>August
22th, </b>given the fact it is a holiday season. <br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="">Best wishes,<br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="">Nadira<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org" target="_blank" class="">jmalcolm@eff.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><p class="">I would like to follow up to Nadira's post to encourage some new
faces to volunteer to represent the Best Bits network on the
I</p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline" class=""></div>nternet Governance Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) which
is a cross-community group for recommending civil society
appointments to Internet governance bodies.<div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="">As one of the co-founders of the CSCG I have served a term
already, and so I would prefer to give others an opportunity to
volunteer. If you are interested, you can contact the outgoing
representative Nadira Alaraj at <a href="mailto:nadira.araj@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">nadira.araj@gmail.com</a>.</p><p class="">Thanks.<br class="">
</p><div class=""><div class="">
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<div class="">On 10/08/2016 12:41 PM, Nadira Alaraj
wrote:<br class="">
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<div style="font-size:small" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><br clear="all" class="">
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<div style="font-size:small" class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Dear Best
Bits members,<br class="">
</span><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">The changes
on the <a href="http://internetgov-cs.org/" target="_blank" class="">CSCG</a>-Members
Representatives has been approved by the current CSCG
(included below).</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Accordingly,
it is
now required to have 2 representatives from each member. </span></p><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">I
call upon Best Bits organizational members to nominate
names, or individuals to nominate themselves by <b class="">Thursday,
<span class=""> </span>August 18<sup class="">th</sup>.
</b></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">The
endorsement<span class=""> </span>period
will run until <b class=""></b></span></p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline" class=""><b class=""></b></div><b class="">Monday, <span class=""> </span>August
22th,</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""> and an
approval
of the 2 Best Bits representatives will be until <b class="">Thursday,
August 25<sup class="">th</sup></b>. <br class="">
</span><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">The
appointed 2
Best Bits representatives will be working with other CSCG
members to select the new
Chair, who will resume her/his task by September 1<sup class="">st</sup>.
</span>
</p><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">I
would like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing
Chair Ian Peter, for
his diligent work and for his wisdom in normalizing heated
discussions.</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Needing
more information, please do not hesitate to reach me,</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Best
wishes,</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Nadira
AL Araj</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Outgoing
Representatives of Best Bits</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">==============================<wbr class="">========================<br class="">
</span></p><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">CSCG -
MEMBER REPRESENTATIVES</span></b></p>
<b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Each
coalition member has two (2) representatives, chosen
according to their own
internal processes, on the CSCG.</span>
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Each
representative serves a term of two years, staggered so
that there is an annual
replacement of one representative per coalition.</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Representatives
can serve two consecutive terms, but must then stand
down for at least 12
months before being eligible for further selection.</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Replenishment
should take place in September of each calendar year.
(note: for the initial
establishment of member representatives in 2016, each
coalition should nominate
which of its members should serve a two year term, and
which a one year term.
Any time served prior to 2016 does not count in new
procedures being adopted))</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">The
duties of members are to</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">1.
Consider
the interests of civil society as a whole</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">2.
Serve on Nomcoms regularly as required</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">3.
Communicate with their coalitions on CSCG developments</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">CHAIR
STRUCTURE</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">A
Chair, and up to 2 Co-chairs, will be selected by CSCG
member representatives<span class=""> </span>for
two year terms.</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Each
September (as necessary when chair and co-chair member
terms expire), the CSCG
members will select Chairs and Co-chairs.</span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">It is
up to the CSCG to determine whether Chairs and Co-chairs
are selected from the
CSCG membership, or whether mutually agreed to
representatives from broader
civil society are approached to take on these tasks. </span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class=""></span></b></p>
<b class="">
</b><p class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="">Where
an elected Chair is a coalition representative, the
coalition will be given the
option to nominate a replacement representative.</span></b></p>
<b class="">
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