[bestbits] Best Bits MAG nominations for your approval - URGENT

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Dear all,

Here are those who have been nominated for election or re-election to the MAG by Best Bits participants.  This list, if agreed, would supplement (and may even be incorporated into, subject to their approval) the lists that other civil society groups such as the IGC put forward.  But if a full or partial joint nomination can't be accomplished, we will still try to organise a joint letter to the UN Secretariat listing the distinct slates of nominees and the different processes that were used to put them together.
Matthew Shears - Centre for Democracy and Technology (male, USA)
Anriette Esterhuysen - APC [renewal] (female, South Africa)
Nnenna Nwakanma - World Wide Web Foundation (female, Nigeria)
Bertrand de la Chapelle - Internet & Jurisdiction Project (male, Europe)
Izumi Aizu [renewal] - Tama University, Institute for HyperNetwork Society (male, Japan)
Ana Perdigao - various, see below (female, Europe)
The steering committee did not exclude anyone whose nomination we received, however in terms of the criteria that were posted earlier, we draw attention to the fact that Ana Perdigao is a "new face" to most of us, so we cannot verify how closely she complies with them, notably being "active civil society participants".  She has been invited to post to this list to introduce herself and to clarify this and any other aspects.  Meanwhile some biographical information that she sent is below.[0]

Most of the other candidates are well known to many of us, but we invite them also to send biographies to the list if they haven't already done so.

With the above proviso, we are asking this list to endorse the above as candidates for the MAG - not to the exclusion of others, but at least to fill in some gaps in other lists, and in order to possibly be incorporated into the IGC's list (subject to their approval), this endorsement would have to be made by midnight 21 November GMT/UTC.

Due to shortness of remaining time this will have to be an "opt out" process, so if you would prefer that we NOT forward any of the above candidate names, please let us know either by posting to the list or to steering at lists.bestbits.net.  In case we need to extend the process, then we do have about 10 more days before the nominations have to be forwarded to the IGC Secretariat, but we would not be able to join forces with the IGC if our process goes beyond midnight 21 November GMT/UTC.

[0] Ana writes: "I participated in the WSIS and taking part in several panels on the multistakeholder approach. I have a legal background and I am currently a Senior Consultant in ICT and Internet in public affairs in Brussels. I am member of ISOC and in particular of the Portuguese Chapter and the Italian one. I am involved also in the Eurodig and this year I attended my first IGF.
I am also in the steering committee of MediaLaws. I am correspondent for Portugal and Italy for IRIS the Audiovisual Journal of the European Audiovisual Observatory of the Council of Europe. I am a member of the Association Suisse de droit International and one of the co-founding members of the ONG Hemesphere, focus in development and cooperation through culture. I am co-founder of the association IdƏaree that has the aim to study the idea of the modern identity through the geographic space, Europe and the Member States, through culture. I am activist as well with Unicef Brussels.


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