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

[Mishi Choudhary]

Jeremy,

My apologies, I missed this email and assumed my name was still on this
list. SFLC.in endorses all these candidates and support Anja's
recommendation of adding William Drake to it. Thanks!

On 11/19/2013 11:06 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 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.
>
>  1. Matthew Shears - Centre for Democracy and Technology (male, USA)
>  2. Anriette Esterhuysen - APC [renewal] (female, South Africa)
>  3. Nnenna Nwakanma - World Wide Web Foundation (female, Nigeria)
>  4. Bertrand de la Chapelle - Internet & Jurisdiction Project (male,
>     Europe)
>  5. Izumi Aizu [renewal] - Tama University, Institute for HyperNetwork
>     Society (male, Japan)
>  6. 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 <mailto: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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