<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear members,<br><br><span style="font-family:Calibri">The outcome document of the United
Nations General Assembly’s ten-year review of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS) in 2015 included a direction for the Chair of
the Commission on Science and Technology for
Development (CSTD) to "establish a working group to develop
recommendations on how to further implement enhanced cooperation as
envisioned in the Tunis Agenda” </span><span style="font-family:Calibri">. This will continue work done by an earlier CSTD Working Group on
Enhanced Cooperation, that was active from 2013-2014. and current CSTD
Chair, Peter Major of Hungary, has <a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193&Sitemap_x0020_Taxonomy=Commission%20on%20Science%20and%20Technology%20for%20Development" target="_blank">indicated</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri"> that
he will establish the new working group in a similar fashion, with 20
UN Member States and <u>5 representatives from each of the four identified
stakeholder groups</u> (business, civil society, intergovernmental
organizations, the technical & academic community).<br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:Calibri">In this sense, <b>the IGC will be receiving candidates who are interested to be considered as a posible representant of the civil societe. As we did before for the MAG process, I will be encharge to presente the short list to the CSCG nominations committe</b>.<br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b>Independent Civil Society experts</b> (i.e. those who are not nominated by a civil society network or other community<b> are welcome to send self-nominations directly to the CSCG nomcom</b> (email address: <a href="mailto:noncom06@internetgov-cs.org">noncom06@internetgov-cs.org</a>) </span><br><br><div><b>How the nomination format should be?<br></b><br>Nominations should include a short bio of one paragraph, one paragraph of motivation to be a civil society representative to the WG, one paragraph describing substantive proposals or a vision on “how to further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”, and one paragraph describing experience or qualifications to represent civil society on the WG. Name, gender, regional/geographical, as well as any appropriate affiliation information and contact information should be included as well. Proficiency in English is necessary for communications within the Working Group.<br><br></div><div><b>Deadline</b>: 14 March (23:59 UTC)<br><br></div><div>Details of the UNCATAD call: available <a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193&Sitemap_x0020_Taxonomy=Commission%20on%20Science%20and%20Technology%20for%20Development">here</a><br></div><br><div><b>Important!</b>: I as have sent in a previous mail, from the 15 March and until the CSCG noncom establish the final list of the candidates to presenst to WG, since I am willing to present my name to the CSCG, I will not represesnt IGC in the selection of the final candidates but Deidre will. This is obvious because I have personal interest that cannot be mixed with this process, in order to protect transparency.<br><br></div><div>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact back!<br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Analía<br></div><div>IGC co-coordinator<br></div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-652a17ff-138c-337f-ef96-7a97edc8dced"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> <br> </span></p><br></div></div>