<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) has forwarded the below two CS nominations to the IGF Secretariat for speaker spots at the Istanbul IGF's closing ceremony. As one of your two IGC co-Coordinators, I have been tasked to represent this Caucus within that Group. Therefore and for your information, I am hereby forwarding the letter addressed by the CSCG Chair to the IGF Secretariat to that effect. At this point in time and in absence of well-developed and established selection procedures, all the Group members have done the best we could to choose those we believe (for various reasons) to be the strongest candidates for this opportunity among all strong candidates. It is our intent and part of our post-Istanbul agenda to work on clearly developing such procedures.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For now, let us congratulate the nominees, Milton and Burcu.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">
Best regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Mawaki </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">IGC Co-Coordinator and IGC Rep. to CS Coordination Group</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Peter</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:21 AM<br>Subject: [cs-coord] Civil Society Speakers for IGF Closing Ceremony<br>To: <a href="mailto:igf@unog.ch">igf@unog.ch</a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:cs-coord@lists.bestbits.net">cs-coord@lists.bestbits.net</a>, Subi Chaturvedi <<a href="mailto:subichaturvedi@gmail.com">subichaturvedi@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Dear Secretariat,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Subi Chaturvedi passed on to us your request for civil
society nominations for speakers for this years IGF Closing Ceremony. Thank you
for ensuring that civil society is involved in choosing its representatives to
speak on this occasion. </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">This request was dealt with by the Internet Governance
Civil Society Co ordination Group (CSCG). This peak group consists of
representatives of the major civil society coalitions involved in Internet
Governance issues, including Internet Governance Caucus, Best Bits, Association
for Progressive Communications, Diplo Foundation, Just Net Coalition, Civicus,
and Non Commercial Stakeholders Group of ICANN. The group, founded in 2013, has
a primary role to ensure a co-ordinated civil society response and conduit when
it comes to making civil society appointments to outside bodies. This was
accepted and respected during the NetMundial (Brazil) process, and by the 1net
community, and we will be pleased to also work with IGF in the future as regards
civil society representation.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">It was therefore appropriate for this body to consider
the question of speakers for the IGF closing session as requested.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt">A<font style="font-size:11pt">fter calling for expressions of interest and nominations
through the various networks, the CSCG discussed prospective speakers and makes
the following recommendations.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Firstly, we believe that civil society must have two
speakers. Just like governments or any other stakeholder group, we have more
perspectives than can be handled with just one speaking slot, <span> </span>and even with two speakers we feel we are
under-represented.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">With this in mind, and bearing also in mind the
multistakeholder principle that stakeholders should choose their own
representatives, we submit the following two names.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"> <font style="font-size:11pt">SPEAKER NO 1</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Our first speaker is Dr Burcu Kilic. Dr Kilic is a
Turkish citizen who is an expert on legal, economic and political issues
surrounding intellectual property law, policy, development and innovation. We
are pleased to be able to nominate such a talented speaker from the host
country.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">SPEAKER NO 2</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Our second speaker is Dr Milton Mueller. Dr Mueller is
</font><span><font><font style="font-size:10.5pt">a Professor at Syracuse
University. His research, teaching and public service for the last 15 years have
been concentrated on the internet governance
arena.</font></font></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Please let us know if you need any further information
or contact details.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Sincerely,</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Ian Peter</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:13pt"><font style="font-size:11pt">Independent Chair, on behalf of the Internet Governance
Civil Society Coordination Group</font></p></div></div></div>
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