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face=Times>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 on April 23 and 24 2014.
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face=Cambria>• Committee No. 1:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Multistakeholder HighLevel Committee (HLC)</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face=Cambria>This committee will set the high level political tone and
objectives of the</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>conference.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Committee
members will engage on a global level with stakeholders to</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>encourage participation in the conference and maximize its chances
of success. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>This committee will include 4 civil society
representatives.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>• <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Committee No. 3:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Multistakeholder Executive Committee
(EC)</B></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the
event, including: defining</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This committee will include 2 civil society
representatives</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Times>The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is
<STRONG>midnight UTC</STRONG> 7<B> January 2014</B>. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>If you are interested, you are invited to send a brief biography
and a statement of relevant background and experience in response to this topic,
or if you would prefer, you can send it to <A
href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</A> (pending the
appointment of a replacement IGC representative on the co-ordination
group). At the closing date for nominations, nominations submitted to various
civil society networks will be compiled and assessed by the Civil Society Co
ordination Group.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your application
whether it is for the High Level Committee (HLC) or Executive Committee (EC) or
both.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>CRITERIA </FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>The following factors (among others) will be used to assess the
suitability of candidates</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-list: ignore"><FONT face=Cambria>1.</FONT><SPAN
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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Cambria>Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your
individual civil society organisation(s)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Cambria>Able to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups in a
multistakeholder setting</FONT></SPAN></P>
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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Cambria>Able to consult widely with civil society groups and to report back
as the process progresses</FONT></SPAN></P>
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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Cambria>Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these
discussions</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>Broad knowledge of internet governance issues and the range of
civil society perspectives on these issues</FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Cambria>Capacity to participate assertively and
creatively</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><B>Explanation of process </B></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ian Peter</DIV></DIV>
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