[bestbits] Results of nominations for civil society representation on Brazil meeting committees

Tue Jan 14 22:31:08 EST 2014

Here are the results of the call for nominations to the two Brazil
meeting committees, as handled by the Civil Society IG Coordination
Group, on which I am the liaison for the Best Bits community.  This
email comes from independent chair Ian Peter.

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Subject: 	[governance] CS Representation on Brazil Committees
Date: 	Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:31:55 +1100
From: 	Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
Reply-To: 	governance at lists.igcaucus.org,"Ian Peter"
<ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
To: 	<governance at lists.igcaucus.org>

I am pleased to announce the following selections for the Brazil
Committees on behalf of the Civil Society Coordination Group. Many
thanks to all the organisations and individuals who co –operated in this
collaborative effort and to those who contributed to a very talented
list of names for consideration

*High Level Committee*

Jovan Kurbalija
Stephanie Perrin
Louis Pouzin

*Executive Multistakeholder Committee*

Adam Peake
Marilia Maciel

Biographical details appear below.

The representatives were chosen from a field of 33 applications for HLC
and 24 applications for EMC, drawn from a widely disseminated call for
nominations across various civil society networks, including IGC, Best
Bits, APC, NCSG, Diplo, and associated civil society networks , and
including nominations from other CS individuals as well. No nominations
were denied full consideration.

The full list of candidates was posted on the main civil society lists
some time ago (let me know if you need a copy). We thank all the
volunteers who put their names forward – this was an incredibly talented
field and making decisions on final candidates was subsequently a
significant challenge.

The selections were made by a Nomcom consisting of Virginia Paque (Diplo
Foundation), Jeremy Malcolm (Best Bits), Chat Garcia Ramilo (APC) and
Robin Gross (NCSG). Ian Peter was an independent non voting Chair.

We realise that some aspects of these selections will be controversial.
We have attempted to find a balance (among the candidates who best fit
our criteria for selection) between such factors as gender, geography,
advocacy, knowledge, expertise, and constituency. Geography in
particular was a challenge in finalising our HLC candidates – but we did
note very strong support from a number of prominent third world centred
organisations and individuals for Louis Pouzin, and trust that the
perspectives and advocacy he will bring to the discussions will ensure
that important issues of concern to many members of civil society are
not neglected.

Biographical details are below.

Ian Peter (non voting Chair)

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

*Dr Jovan Kurbalija*is the founding director of DiploFoundation. He is a
former diplomat with a professional and academic background in
international law, diplomacy, and information technology. In 1992, he
established the Unit for IT and Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy
of Diplomatic Studies in Malta. In 2002, after more than ten years of
successful work in training, research, and publishing, the Unit evolved
into DiploFoundation.

Dr Kurbalija directs online learning courses on ICT and diplomacy and
lectures in academic and training institutions in Switzerland, the
United States, Austria, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Malta.
His main areas of research are diplomacy and the development of an
international Internet regime, the use of hypertext in diplomacy, online
negotiations and diplomatic law.

*Stephanie Perrin*is recognized as an international expert in privacy
and data protection and the social impact of technology, and is
conducting doctoral research focused on privacy enhanced authentication
technologies. Stephanie is a NCSG/NCUC member and has been a strong
advocate for privacy on the ICANN Expert Working Group on Directory
Services (aka "whois") for the last year.  Her experience includes
several positions in the Canadian Government, including in Integrity
Services at Service Canada, as Director of Research and Policy in the
Office of the Privacy Commissioner, and as Director of Privacy Policy at
Industry Canada where she was responsible for the development of the
private sector privacy legislation (PIPEDA). She has worked in the
private sector and has consulted broadly on privacy issues
internationally, including advising on the first privacy policy for
CIRA, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. She is based in Canada.

*Louis Pouzin*is one of the pioneers in computer communications and the
Internet. He designed and directed the development of the Cyclades
network in France, the first to use datagrams and matching end-to-end
protocols, later adopted by the Internet. He is now retired and
contributes to several associations and working groups related to
Internet development. He has received ACM SIGCOMM and IEEE Internet
awards and is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame. He graduated from
Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and has published 82 articles and a book
on computer networks.Louis is a founder or Eurolinc and has been a
strong advocate in internet governance discussions.

*Adam Peake*is a senior researcher at the Center for Global
Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan. He works on
telecommunications, Internet and broadband policy, and follow-up
activities for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Adam
has been active in policy-making activities for the deployment and
development of the Internet since the mid-1990s. He is an expert on the
development and deployment of the broadband networks, services and
applications in Japan, and has conducted numerous studies for Japanese
corporate clients on telecommunications/Internet/ICTs in the United
States, Europe, Africa and Asia. Adam teaches a short course on Internet
policy for MBA students at the International University of Japan and is
a former co ordinator of the Internet Governance Caucus.

*Marília Maciel*works as a professor of Intellectual Property Law and
also as a researcher at the Center for Technology and Society of the
Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV), in Brazil. She leads project
Cultura Livre (Free Culture), which investigates how new media reshapes
intellectual property and impacts cultural production and distribution.
She also represents FGV at the Standing Committee on Copyright and
Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO). Marília has a Masters degree on Latin American Integration from
the Federal University of Santa Maria and a Law degree from the Federal
University of Pernambuco. She has been a tutor in the Internet
Governance Capacity Building Programme, organized by DiploFoundation
since 2008. She is also a member of the Remote Participation Working
Group, composed by individuals from different countries who have joined
together with the concern to enhance remote attendance in the Internet
Governance Fórum.

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