<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span>Yes</span> <span>we don't lose nothing</span> <span>to</span> <span>test this</span> <span>proposition.</span> <span>However, this</span> <span>situation needs</span> <span>a deep</span> <span>reflection</span> <span class="">for the futur.<br><br></span></span></div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Best,<br> </span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-03-26 17:53 GMT+01:00 Michael Gurstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-CA"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">This seems to me to be a very useful way to proceed…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">M<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> Nick Ashton-Hart [mailto:<a href="mailto:nashton@consensus.pro" target="_blank">nashton@consensus.pro</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> March 25, 2016 9:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; Michael Gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Ian Peter <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span></p><div><div class="h5"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dear all, FWIW, this is as we all know a long-standing problem.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">My thought is that a solution might be to ask if those of you with access to funders could put together a proposal for a pool to be available every year for a handful of key meetings that would allow those without travel support to have a chance to attend these meetings. Perhaps ISOC would be a contributor to it, or coordinate with it to try and leverage this new mechanism to bring more people to the events where ISOC provides travel funding for some.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">That said, FWIW, the WSIS Forum is not really politically impactful in my experience - most Geneva based delegates don’t attend if they can help it, for example.<u></u><u></u></p><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 26 Mar 2016, at 05:14, Michael Gurstein <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I must say that I find this process from the UN (again) completely ridiculous however, I think that this one may be material in allowing for some possibly useful inputs from participants as "facilitators"</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I might for example, be interested in volunteering as a "facilitator" but would be immediately (self) excluded because of the requirement that participants need to be self-funded. There is no way I could find funding for this participation including because the time available is way too short to do any useful fundraising and of course NAm folks are automatically excluded from any of the more general funding envelopes.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What this type of "invitation" does is to more or less automatically exclude everyone from CS who isn't a trustfundarian, a resident of Geneva or the environs, or a staff member of a major NGO with sufficient discretionary funding. This of course is highly highly discriminatory/exclusionary as we all know and has the effect of drastically skewing results of such processes and thus presumably of their outcomes as well.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In most cases it doesn't matter as the "opportunity" is of little consequence. In this instance it looks like it may be of more consequence and thus does matter.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Could I suggest that the CSCG lodge an appropriate protest in this regard.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">M</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a>[<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a>]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Ian Peter<br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>March 24, 2016 1:08 PM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span>Analia Aspis <<a href="mailto:analia.aspis@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">analia.aspis@gmail.com</span></a>>;<span> </span><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">attached the document Analia is referring to below.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:analia.aspis@gmail.com" title="analia.aspis@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">Analia Aspis</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Friday, March 25, 2016 1:13 AM</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">To:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" title="governance@lists.igcaucus.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">[governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear members,</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:13.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The WSIS Forum will take place in Geneva from May 2-6 this year. The Civil Society Co-ordination Group (CSCG) has been asked to forward four names of civil society representatives to be High Level Track Facilitators (joining facilitators from other stakeholder groups).</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:13.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The attached document gives details of what is required. Please note:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:13.0pt"> <span style="font-size:11.0pt">High Level Track Facilitators are expected to cover their own fares and accommodation expenses:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:13.0pt"> <span style="font-size:11.0pt">The main task of each facilitator is to moderate a high level policy session and provide a written executive summary based on interventions and discussion during the session, while capturing the vision, identifying emerging trends, opportunities and challenges shared by the high level speakers.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:13.0pt"> <span style="font-size:11.0pt">Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate previous experience in this area, combined with a good general knowledge of WSIS issues.<span> </span></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:13.0pt"> <b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Nominations or self-nominations should be sent DIRECTLY to<span> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:nomcom07@internetgov-cs.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">nomcom07@internetgov-cs.org</span></a></span><span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">no later than midnight UTC on Wednesday, April 6.<span> </span></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:13.0pt"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:13.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The nominations should include basic biographical information, plus a brief statement outlining relevant experience in similar moderation/ facilitation exercises.</span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span 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