[bestbits] Re: Call to Best Bits participants for nominations to Brazil meeting committees

[Jeremy Malcolm]

This is a reminder to put forward your names for selection for the
Brazil meeting committees by midnight UTC 7 January 2014, per the
procedure given below.

Regarding the draft selection criteria originally posted, a few others
were raised on this list, of which one had fairly wide support, that
"the nominee brings in perspectives/ representation of groups typically
under-represented in global IG processes, and demonstrate existing
linkages and work in this regard" (but the comment was also made that
this should not be applied to give undue weight to minority views).  The
arguments for and against this additional criterion have been well
ventilated and the coordinating group will take what it can from this
discussion.

Surprisingly though we haven't actually had too many actual names put
forward as nominees for the two committees (I have received a couple
privately, but it is much better that they are discussed on the list, so
that support for the names can be gauged).  So please do take the
opportunity over the next few days to put your name or someone else's
forward, if you would like to give input into the composition of the groups.

Thanks.

On 22/12/13 13:31, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> This is a call for nominations to represent civil society on planning
> committees in preparations for the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting on
> Internet Governance”, to be held in Sao Paulo Brazil on April 23
> <x-apple-data-detectors://0> and 24 2014.
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> *• Committee No. 1:  Multistakeholder High­Level Committee (HLC)*
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> This committee will set the high ­level political tone and objectives
> of the
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> conference.  Committee members will engage on a global level with
> stakeholders to
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> encourage participation in the conference and maximize its chances of
> success.
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> This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.
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> • *Committee No. 3:  Multistakeholder Executive Committee (EC)*
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> This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the event,
> including: defining
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> conference purpose/agenda, managing invitations, organizing input
> received into a coherent set of proposals for the conferees to
> address, managing conference proceedings and process, and directing
> all communications activities pre/­during/­post conference. This
> committee will include 2 civil society representatives
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> The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is *midnight
> UTC* 7 <x-apple-data-detectors://1>* January 2014
> <x-apple-data-detectors://1>*.
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> If you are interested, you are invited to send a brief biography and a
> statement of relevant background and experience to jeremy at ciroap.org
> <mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org> or by replying to this thread. At the
> closing date for nominations, those submitted to various civil society
> networks will be compiled and assessed by the Civil Society Co
> ordination Group.
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>  
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> Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your application whether
> it is for the High Level Committee (HLC) or Executive Committee (EC)
> or both.
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> CRITERIA
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> The following factors (among others) will be used to assess the
> suitability of candidates
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> 1.      Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your
> individual civil society organisation(s)
>
> 2.      Able to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups in a
> multistakeholder setting
>
> 3.      Able to consult widely with civil society groups and to report
> back as the process progresses
>
> 4.      Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these
> discussions
>
> 5.      Broad knowledge of internet governance issues and the range of
> civil society perspectives on these issues
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> 6.      Capacity to participate assertively and creatively
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> *Explanation of process*
>  
> The civil society coordinating group is a loose peak body that came
> together this year to facilitate joint civil society participation in
> several nominating processes.  It currently comprises persons from the
> most active civil society coalitions or networks in the Internet
> governance space, which in no particular order are the Internet
> Governance Caucus, Diplo Foundation, Best Bits, the Non Commercial
> Stakeholder Group of ICANN, and the Association for Progressive
> Communications.  The current liaisons are Virginia Paque, Jeremy
> Malcolm, Robin Gross and Chat Garcia Ramilo, with Ian Peter as an
> independent facilitator.  Its current composition is imperfect - the
> boundary between an organisation and network is grey, and so is the
> scope of "Internet governance".  In particular, we are reaching out to
> other civil society networks to further broaden the inclusiveness of
> the group and have developed a draft set of criteria to assist in this
> process.
>  
> Likewise, the process for gathering and reaching consensus is also a
> work in progress, but progressive improvements to the process have
> been put in place since the group's first nomination.  These
> improvements include refinement of criteria for each member network to
> consider when putting forward names for consideration.  Other
> suggested changes to the process, such as the use of a
> randomly-selected nominating committee, have not met with consensual
> support from within the group and so have not been adopted for this
> nomination.  However, the coordinating group welcomes other
> suggestions for improvement of the joint process.

-- 

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