<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Dear IGC members, </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>Bellow, the information from Ian Peter with regard the MAG endorsement.</b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>Regards,</b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>Analía Aspis<br></b><br><br>
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<div>Folks, (both Nomcom and CSCG members)</div>
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<div>Attached in document form, and also below, is the final report of the CSCG
Nomcom for 2016 MAG nominations. Please circulate to your lists.</div>
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<div>Many thanks to my co-chair Ginger Paque and also the Nomcom team (Nadira
Alaraj (Best Bits), Analia Aspis (Internet Governance Caucus), Robin Gross (Non
Commercial Stakeholders Group, ICANN), Chat Garcia Ramilo (Association for
Progressive Communications), and Parminder Jeet Singh (Just Net Coalition)) for
a fantastic effort.</div>
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<div>Ian Peter</div>
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<div><font face="Arial">REPORT FOLLOWS</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">(text below is also attached in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Dear Chengetai, IGF Secretariat, and
MAG selection committee(s),</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">First, we wish to thank you for your
past co-operation with us in aiming to ensure the best possible representation
for civil society in the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG). We were
pleased that you were able to accept all but one of our suggested nominations
last year, and also our suggestions for speakers at IGF. We look forward to
further strengthening this collaboration, in line with various recommendations
calling for greater legitimacy, transparency and stakeholder involvement in such
processes</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="Arial"><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">The </font></span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt"><span><a><span><font color="#1155cc">Civil Society Coordination
Group</font></span></a></span></font><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt"> (CSCG) exists solely to ensure a co-ordinated civil
society response and conduit when it comes to making civil society appointments
to outside bodies. It comprises representatives of the coalition members of the
Best Bits, Association for Progressive Communications, Internet Governance
Caucus, Just Net Coalition, and the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group of ICANN.
Together the reach of these groups extends to many hundreds of non-governmental
organisations, as well as a great number of individuals. In addition, the CSCG
receives recommendations of non-affiliated individuals and groups who chose to
voice their endorsements through the CSCG mechanism. The CSCG represents the
five largest groupings of civil society organisations addressing Internet
governance issues. We also work in collaboration with other initiatives in the
UN, but also outside of it (such as the Netmundial Conference in Brazil in 2014
and the subsequent Netmundial Initiative).</font></span></font><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">We are pleased to forward the following
civil society endorsements for candidates for the 2016 MAG
renewal.</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">The Nomcom considered 16 names
submitted via our networks, which are attached as Appendix 1. For the record, we
also asked to be privy to any other civil society nominations forwarded to you
from other sources, and, for full transparency, all civil society stakeholder
group applications, which we ideally should have considered fully and without
discrimination, but we were told this was not possible. However if there
are other names you are considering, we offer our services to give you
confidential assessment of any such candidates.</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">In completing our task, we note that
three candidates designated by you as civil society representatives have terms
ending this year; two from LAC region and one from Asia. (Fatima Cambronero,
Desiree Zachariah, and Subi Chaturvedi)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">In considering replacements, we have
looked at a number of considerations, the most important of which at this
particular time, are: </font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">First, to restore the balance of LAC
region representation, to replace retiring civil society members, we
recommend:</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<ol style="MARGIN-BOTTOM:0cm;MARGIN-TOP:0cm" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Julian Casasbuenas</font></span></b><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">. </font></span><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt">Julian is a member of </font></span></font><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" color="#222222">the Association for
Progressive Communications (APC), and has been attending IGF since 2006.
He was involved in the organization of LAC regional IGF meetings and
participated actively as a reporter and speaker in these events. In 2012 his
organization, Colnodo, was co-organizer with .CO Internet of the Fifth IGF LAC
meeting that was held in Bogotá Colombia. </font></font><br><br></span><span></span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Renata Aquino Ribeiro</font></span></b><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">. </font></span><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt">Renata</font></span><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" color="#222222"> is currently a professor in the IT
Campus at Quixadá City in Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. In 2014, she
was a researcher in social development, technology and education at Business
and Economics Faculty (FEAAC) at Federal University of Ceará (UFC). For the
last decade, she has followed the Internet governance debates such as regional
IGFs and ICANN53 participation as a fellow, Brazilian Internet School of
Governance 2014 fellow, South School of Internet Governance 2015 fellow,
LACRALO ALS Nexti participant, and NCUC participant in
ICANN.</font></span></font><span></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Our second and third major
considerations are to increase voices speaking for the geo-political global
south, and to add to the level of experience in internet governance matters of
civil society participation. We believe this can be done with one specific
candidate. i.e.:</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="Arial"><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">3. <b>Norbert Bollow</b>. </font></span><span><font color="#222222"><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt">Norbert has a background in
mathematics, physics and IT, and he also has many years of experience in civil
society activism on a wide range of information society topics including
advocacy for human rights and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). He has
participated in the consultations that preceded the first IGF and he has since
then participated in many IGFs, including several times as a workshop organizer.
He has been a co-coordinator of Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus.
Norbert is currently a co-convenor of the Just Net
Coalition</font></font></span><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt"><span><a><span><font color="#222222"><font style="TEXT-DECORATION:none"> </font></font></span></a><a><span><font color="#1155cc">http://justnetcoalition.org/jnc-members</font></span></a></span></font><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt" color="#222222">, an international civil society coalition
of 35 organisations and networks, most of them South based, with a focus on
demands that the Internet must advance human rights and social justice, and that
Internet governance must be truly democratic.</font></span></font><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Our fourth consideration is to gain
representation from the MENA region, which currently has no civil society
representation; and at the same time to strengthen our African presence. To this
end we endorse:</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="Arial"><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">4. <b>Rasha Abdulla</b>. </font></span><span><font color="#222222"><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt">Dr. Rasha A. Abdulla is Associate
Professor (tenured) and Past Chair of Journalism and Mass Communication at the
American University in Cairo. She has a Ph.D. in Communication (December 2003)
from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. She is the proud
recipient of several teaching and research awards. Her current research
interests focus on the Internet as a medium. Her doctoral dissertation was the
first large scale academic study of the uses and gratifications of the Internet
among Arab students in Egypt.</font></font></span><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:10pt">..</font></span></font><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Thank you for your consideration of
these candidates. Please note that, in addition to addressing matters of
geographical and gender balance, civil society, like other stakeholders, needs
to consider geopolitical balance and the need to ensure that all stakeholder
voices are represented. What might appear to be simple changes to the
representation we suggest can be quite problematic for us, and result in either
imbalance in representation or in inappropriate candidates being selected. To
avoid these problems which have occurred in the past, we do suggest that, should
you be looking at appointing anyone as a civil society representative not on our
list of endorsements, you discuss this in confidence with our coordinators. In
addition to any names you might have received individually, we recognise that
there are a number of excellent candidates from distinct geographic regions who
applied to be nominated through CSCG who we were unable to include in our
limited number of endorsements above, that might come into consideration in such
discussions. </font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Given the investment in the important
process of (perceived) legitimacy, balance, transparency and consensus, we feel
strongly that selections should be done with our collaboration. This enhanced
co-operation and consultation can assist to ensure the best possible civil
society representation, a goal we all share. This also addresses the
recommendation of the Working Group on Improvements to the IGF, later endorsed
by UN General Assembly, seeking ‘self-management’ of stakeholder representative
process by respective stakeholder groups. We are open for further
discussion on this point and other relevant recommendations of the mentioned
Working Group. </font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Finally, we do think that, in the light
of recommendations in the mentioned CSTD WG and in Netmundial, calling for
greater legitimacy, transparency and stakeholder involvement in such processes,
it would be appropriate in coming months to review the IGF MAG selection
processes, to align them more with emerging best practice in ensuring
stakeholder representation and also overall transparency. We offer our services
to work with you and other stakeholder representative organisations towards this
objective, which we consider imperative to have in place for the 2017 MAG
selection process.</font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Sincerely,</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Virginia Paque and Ian
Peter</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Non-voting Co Chairs
CSCG</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="Arial"><b><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Nomcom members:</font></span></b><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt"> Nadira Alaraj (Best Bits), Analia Aspis (Internet
Governance Caucus), Robin Gross (Non Commercial Stakeholders Group, ICANN), Chat
Garcia Ramilo (Association for Progressive Communications), Parminder Jeet Singh
(Just Net Coalition)</font></span></font><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><i><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">The role of CSCG is to ensure a
co-ordinated civil society response and conduit when it comes to making civil
society appointments to outside bodies. Our procedures can be viewed at
<a href="http://www.internetgov-cs.org/procedures" target="_blank">http://www.internetgov-cs.org/procedures</a></font></font></span></i><span></span></p>
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ONE</font></font></span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><b><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">CANDIDATES EVALUATED BY CSCG NOMCOM
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><b><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" color="#222222">Julian Casasbuenas
(LAC)*</font></font></span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><b><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Renata Aquino Ribeiro
(LAC)*</font></font></span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="Arial"><font color="#222222"><b><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Norbert Bollow (WEOG</font></span></b><span><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">)*</font></span></font></font><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><b><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" color="#222222">Rasha Abdulla
(Africa)*</font></font></span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" color="#222222">Renata Avila
(LAC)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Wisdom Kwasi Donkor
(Africa)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Isaque Manteiga Joaquim
(Africa)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Olevie Kouami
(Africa)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Glenn McKnight
(WEOG)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Jeremy Malcolm
(WEOG)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Joseph Marc Antoine Ridore
(Africa)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Grigori Saghyan
(WEOG)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" color="#222222">Salanieta
Tamanikaiwaimaro (Asia-Pacific)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">AbdulRasheed Tamton
(Africa)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt">Arsene Tungali
(Africa)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><span><font face="Arial"><font style="FONT-SIZE:11pt" color="#222222">Deidre Williams
(LAC)</font></font></span><span></span></p>
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