[bestbits] Chair of Civil Society Coordination Group

[Mishi Choudhary]

+1 for Ian

On 08/15/2014 07:05 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
> I vote for Ian Peter.
> Louis
> - - -
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org
> <mailto:jmalcolm at eff.org>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Best Bits colleagues,
>
>     Last year a Civil Society Coordination Group came together to
>     handle the task of coordinating civil society nominations for the
>     NETmundial committees.  The group still exists although relatively
>     dormant since then, and its current membership contains the
>     following representatives or liaisons to the main civil society
>     networks in this space:
>
>     Chat Garcia Ramilo - APC
>     Ian Peter - independent chair
>     Jeremy Malcolm - Best Bits
>     Mawaki Chango - IGC
>     Robin Gross - ICANN NCSG
>     Virginia Paque - Diplo Foundation
>     Mandeep Tiwana - Civicus*
>     Norbert Bollow - Just Net Coalition*
>
>     * added in 2014
>
>     Realising the need to improve the composition and processes of the
>     group, we conducted a straw poll of our networks earlier this
>     year, to gauge how people thought this should happen.  One of the
>     questions in that straw poll was about how the chair of the group
>     should be selected, and the most popular choice was "Group will
>     choose a non-voting chair themselves after a call for volunteers".
>
>     This is therefore an open call for volunteers who would be willing
>     to nominate themselves, or suggest someone else, to chair the
>     coordination group.  If you would like more background about the
>     purpose and composition of the group, please let me know as I can
>     resend you the information that was provided before the straw poll.
>
>     We already have at least one nominee, but we would be pleased to
>     receive more and you may send them on or off-list (please check
>     with the nominee that they are willing to volunteer first).  In
>     anticipation that joint civil society nominations to IG processes
>     will be required again soon, I request that you send any
>     nominations within 10 days of today, ie. by Monday 25 August.
>      Many thanks.
>
>     -- 
>     Jeremy Malcolm
>     Senior Global Policy Analyst
>     Electronic Frontier Foundation
>     https://eff.org
>     jmalcolm at eff.org <mailto:jmalcolm at eff.org>
>
>     Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161 <tel:415.436.9333%20ext%20161>
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