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<p>+ one for Norbert</p>
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<p>with my best wishes for a succesful mandate</p>
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<p>Jean-Louis Fullsack<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
<blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: #ff0000 2px solid;">> Message du 07/01/14 08:25<br />> De : "Grace Githaiga" <br />> A : "governance@lists.igcaucus.org" , "Mawaki Chango" <br />> Copie à : "Norbert Bollow" , "Ian Peter" , "Jeremy Malcolm" <br />> Objet : RE: [governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees<br />> <br />>
<div dir="ltr">+ 1 for Nobert. <br />> <br />>
<div><hr />CC: governance@lists.igcaucus.org; nb@bollow.ch; ian.peter@ianpeter.com; jeremy@ciroap.org<br />> From: ecrire@catherine-roy.net<br />> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:15:04 -0500<br />> To: governance@lists.igcaucus.org; kichango@gmail.com<br />> Subject: Re: [governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees<br />> <br />>
<div>I also support Norbert's candidacy.</div>
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<div>Catherine Roy</div>
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<div><br />> On 2014-01-06, at 18:01, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com">kichango@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br />> <br />></div>
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<div dir="ltr">I support Norbert's self-nomination/expression of interest to serve on the <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Executive Committee.</span>
<div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I am confident he will be a great asset for ensuring the inclusion of broader civil society perspectives during the agenda setting exercise for the BR meeting.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thanks,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mawaki<br />> </span>
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<div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Norbert Bollow <span><<a href="mailto:nb@bollow.ch" target="_blank">nb@bollow.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br />>
<blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Jeremy and Ian and all,<br />> <br />> this is an expression of interest to serve on the Executive Committee<br />> for the São Paulo meeting.<br />> <br />> My chief interest in this context is to contribute to ensuring that<br />> the agenda setting process for the São Paulo meeting will be<br />> sufficiently inclusive of all relevant perspectives: Of course a single<br />> two-days event that aims to reach a consensus on an outcome document<br />> cannot productively address a too big range of topics, but I would<br />> insist that it is critically important to carefully ensure that the<br />> framing of the discourse on those topics is open enough that no kinds<br />> of perspectives, especially no civil society perspectves, are excluded<br />> from the outset.<br />> <br />> Brief biography: Born in Germany in 1968 and attended public schools<br />> there; moved to Switzerland in 1985 and studied mathematics and physics<br />> and some informatics in Zurich. Significant technical experience<br />> especially with FOSS technologies and standardization work. Active in<br />> organized civil society processes related to IT and the Internet since<br />> 2004. Careful to keep the topics of civil society engagement separated<br />> clearly from the topics of business interests.<br />> <br />> Relevant experience includes:<br />> * Chairmanship of the “Swiss Internet User Group” (SIUG), <a target="_blank">2006-2009</a>.<br />> * Having successfully negotiated, as a civil society person, with<br />> Microsoft a fix to their patent non-assertion pledge regarding OOXML<br />> and some other specifications to resolve a potential patent threat<br />> to GPL-licensed software. (PJ of Groklaw was so surprised that she<br />> published a picture of a flying pig, in relation to this.)<br />> * Chairmanship of the Swiss mirror committee for international<br />> standards on “Document Description and Processing Languages".<br />> * Participation in the drafting process for the outcome document of<br />> the 2013 WSIS+10 review event in Paris.<br />> * Having served as a co-coordinator of the IGC for most of 2013.<br />> * Participated and organized workshops at multiple IGFs. This includes<br />> successful cooperation with the “focal points” for the CSTD Enhanced<br />> Cooperation WG for all non-governmental stakeholder constituencies to<br />> hold a workshop at the Bali IGF on “MS selection processes:<br />> accountability and transparency” (workshop 127).<br />> <br />> Greetings,<br />> Norbert<br />> <br />> <br />> <br />> Am Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:41:17 +1100<br />> schrieb "Ian Peter" <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>>:<br />>
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<div class="h5"><br />> > This is a call for nominations to represent civil society on planning<br />> > committees in preparations for the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting<br />> > on Internet Governance”, to be held in Sao Paulo Brazil on April 23<br />> > and 24 2014.<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > • Committee No. 1: Multistakeholder HighLevel Committee (HLC)<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > This committee will set the high level political tone and objectives<br />> > of the<br />> ><br />> > conference. Committee members will engage on a global level with<br />> > stakeholders to<br />> ><br />> > encourage participation in the conference and maximize its chances of<br />> > success.<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > • Committee No. 3: Multistakeholder Executive Committee (EC)<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the event,<br />> > including: defining<br />> ><br />> > conference purpose/agenda, managing invitations, organizing input<br />> > received into a coherent set of proposals for the conferees to<br />> > address, managing conference proceedings and process, and directing<br />> > all communications activities pre/during/post conference. This<br />> > committee will include 2 civil society representatives<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is midnight UTC 7<br />> > January 2014.<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > If you are interested, you are invited to send a brief biography and<br />> > a statement of relevant background and experience in response to this<br />> > topic, or if you would prefer, you can send it to<br />> > <a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a> (pending the appointment of a replacement IGC<br />> > representative on the co-ordination group). At the closing date for<br />> > nominations, nominations submitted to various civil society networks<br />> > will be compiled and assessed by the Civil Society Co ordination<br />> > Group.<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your application whether<br />> > it is for the High Level Committee (HLC) or Executive Committee (EC)<br />> > or both.<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > CRITERIA<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > The following factors (among others) will be used to assess the<br />> > suitability of candidates<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > 1. Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your<br />> > individual civil society organisation(s)<br />> ><br />> > 2. Able to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups in a<br />> > multistakeholder setting<br />> ><br />> > 3. Able to consult widely with civil society groups and to<br />> > report back as the process progresses<br />> ><br />> > 4. Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these<br />> > discussions<br />> ><br />> > 5. Broad knowledge of internet governance issues and the range<br />> > of civil society perspectives on these issues<br />> ><br />> > 6. Capacity to participate assertively and creatively<br />> ><br />> ><br />> ><br />> > Explanation of process<br />> ><br />> > The civil society coordinating group is a loose peak body that came<br />> > together this year to facilitate joint civil society participation in<br />> > several nominating processes. It currently comprises persons from<br />> > the most active civil society coalitions or networks in the Internet<br />> > governance space, which in no particular order are the Internet<br />> > Governance Caucus, Diplo Foundation, Best Bits, the Non Commercial<br />> > Stakeholder Group of ICANN, and the Association for Progressive<br />> > Communications. The current liaisons are Virginia Paque, Jeremy<br />> > Malcolm, Robin Gross and Chat Garcia Ramilo, with Ian Peter as an<br />> > independent facilitator. Its current composition is imperfect - the<br />> > boundary between an organisation and network is grey, and so is the<br />> > scope of "Internet governance". In particular, we are reaching out<br />> > to other civil society networks to further broaden the inclusiveness<br />> > of the group and have developed a draft set of criteria to assist in<br />> > this process.<br />> ><br />> > Likewise, the process for gathering and reaching consensus is also a<br />> > work in progress, but progressive improvements to the process have<br />> > been put in place since the group's first nomination. These<br />> > improvements include refinement of criteria for each member network<br />> > to consider when putting forward names for consideration. Other<br />> > suggested changes to the process, such as the use of a<br />> > randomly-selected nominating committee, have not met with consensual<br />> > support from within the group and so have not been adopted for this<br />> > nomination. However, the coordinating group welcomes other<br />> > suggestions for improvement of the joint process.<br />> ><br />> > Ian Peter<br />> <br />> <br />></div>
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