[bestbits] Call for nominations for civil society representatives for the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory group (MAG)

Tue Sep 30 06:42:21 EDT 2014

Thank You Joly.

Jeremy,

Please accept my Statement of Interest, attached.

Thank you
Sivasubramanian M

Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy of Chennai, India, has indicated to me his
> interest, thus I would like to nominate him. I trust he will foward his SOI
> directly to you Jeremy.
>
> joly
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:20 PM, João Carlos R. Caribé <joao.caribe at me.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Count me in to support your nomination, so I worried about to not see
>> anyone from Brazil or Latin America, and seriously think about nominate
>> myself too.
>>
>> _
>> João Carlos Caribé
>> (021) 8761 1967
>> (021) 4042 7727
>> Skype joaocaribe
>> Enviado via iPad
>>
>> Em 29/09/2014, às 19:46, Ephraim Percy Kenyanito <ekenyanito at gmail.com>
>> escreveu:
>>
>> Dear Jeremy, all,
>>
>> Thanks all for the endorsements and more especially from the young people
>> and those from the global south as this are two constituencies that I am
>> blessed to be part of.
>>
>> Please find my somewhat long and detailed statement below.
>>
>> Name: Ephraim Percy Kenyanito
>>
>> Region of residence: Africa
>>
>> Nationality:
>> Kenyan
>>
>> Gender: Male
>>
>> Personal statement and IG-related work:
>>
>> I am a Policy Fellow working with the Policy team for Access (
>> https://www.accessnow.org/ ), where I focus on the connection between
>> internet policy and human rights and specifically works on Internet
>> Governance Reforms. Since joining Access, I have extensively supported
>> Access in analyzing and contributing to international and national African
>> policy positions at major internet governance fora, including the recent
>> NetMundial meeting, the International Telecommunication Union, and the
>> African Union Convention on Cybersecurity, among others and have assisted
>> to extend and defend rights of users through  ICANN Civil Society related
>> events.
>>
>> I a member of the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition on
>> Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the IGF). I am also an
>> affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (
>> http://globalnetpolicy.org/about/ipo-affiliates/ ) (created by the
>> Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for
>> Communication at the University of Pennsylvania).
>>
>> Being only 21 years in July 2013, I was the youngest fellow of the
>> African School on Internet Governance, held in South Africa and run by
>> Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and NEPAD (the technical
>> body of the African Union). In the mean time, I am scheduled to graduate
>> from Law School in 2015 and I am also a Global Civics Student at the Global
>> Civics Academy (www.globalcivics.net )
>>
>> Prior to Access and Internet Policy Observatory, I have worked with
>> Transparency International (Kenya Chapter) in the Advocacy and Legal
>> Advisory Centre (ALAC Eldoret Office) programme as a Law Student Intern for
>> two years. The programme offers free legal advice to victims and witnesses
>> of corruption and at the same time empower members of the Kenyan public to
>> advocate for transparency and accountability in management of public
>> affairs and is active in advocating for Freedom of Information and Data
>> Protection Laws in Kenya.
>>
>> Post IGF 2011 in Nairobi Kenya, Transparency International-Kenya has
>> played active role in using ICTs in human rights, to the point of
>> organizing a hack-a-thon which brings developers together to through a
>> weekend marathon of developing apps that can be used in human rights work.
>> The programme also uses a toll free call centre, social media and FM
>> radio programmes to empower and promote community participation in
>> monitoring public service delivery.
>>
>> I am a previous attendee at IGF at (as an on-site participant and
>> remotely) both at the global and African regional level and more recently
>> in the last IGF 2014 Istanbul, I engaged assertively as an on-site
>> panellist on the following sessions:
>>
>> Developing countries participation in global IG-
>> http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/index.php/proposal/view_public/114
>>
>> Youth Coalition on Internet Governance-
>> www.intgovforum.org/cms/147-igf-2014/1861-igf-2014-youth-coalition-on-internet-governance-meeting
>>
>>
>> Net Neutrality Main Session-
>> https://igf2014.sched.org/event/11c53224e232d7f3298247f3ec624e44 I am a
>> member of a number of academic, end-user and activist mailing lists, and I
>> plan to feed to consult report back about MAG discussions regularly.  I
>> plan to also write regular blog posts in assisting with this purpose.
>>
>> As a 22 year old youth, I believe that the youth are not leaders of
>> tomorrow but of today and involving youth in IG processes ensures that
>> there is no generational gap as regards to Internet Policy advancement. I
>> have often believe that young people ought to be at the forefront in
>> advancing democratic and positive institutional reform. My position is
>> consistent with Civil Society views such as BestBits on the need for
>> diversity in terms of age (bestbits.net/2014-mag-nominations/ ) and
>> Internet Governance Caucus that “..Targeting youth groups or the younger
>> generation of professionals will have, in the long run, an effective
>> impact..” (
>> http://igcaucus.org/answers-cstd-questionnaire-improvements-igf-19-november-2010
>> )
>>
>> This gap on youth involvement in IG has repeatedly been identified during
>> subsequent, IGFs and more recently in IGF 2014, attendees pointed out that
>> youth are about 3% minority in the IGF community (September 5th 2014
>> 11.00 Taking Stock/ Emerging issues), which is consistent with 23 November
>> 2010 IGF MAG Meeting (
>> http://igf.wgig.org/cms/mag/102-igf-2010/transcripts2010 ) where it was
>> stated, “...I think that we should have an opportunity to provide it -- to
>> provide opportunities for youth representation from African countries,
>> Asian, former USSR, other countries, to make it the IGF's better mandate...”
>>
>> My views for IGF reform are that Civil Society needs to take a more
>> prominent role in the IGF decision making and this is outlined at this
>> BestBits statement:  <http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/>
>> <http://bestbits.net/igf-2014-submission/> and in this IG- Caucus 2010
>> statement that is still relevant to-date:
>> http://www.unctad.info/upload/CSTD-IGF/Contributions/M1/CSIGC.pdf
>>
>> Bio
>>
>> Ephraim is a Policy Fellow working with the Policy team for Access (
>> https://www.accessnow.org/ ), where he focuses on the connection between
>> internet policy and human rights and specifically works on Internet
>> Governance Reforms. At Access, Ephraim has enthusiastically and extensively
>> supported Access in analyzing and contributing to international and
>> national African policy positions at major internet governance fora,
>> including the recent NetMundial meeting, the International
>> Telecommunication Union, and the African Union Convention on Cybersecurity,
>> among others.
>>
>> He is a member of the interim steering committee for the Youth Coalition
>> on Internet Governance (a Dynamic Coalition of the IGF) and is a global
>> member of ISOC and served as a member of 2014's Kenya Internet Governance
>> Forum Steering committee (
>> http://kenyaigf.or.ke/index.php/about-kigf/kigf-team). He is also an
>> affiliate at the Internet Policy Observatory (IPO) (
>> http://globalnetpolicy.org/about/ipo-affiliates/ ) (created by the
>> Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for
>> Communication at the University of Pennsylvania).
>>
>> Being only 21 years in July 2013, he was the youngest graduate of the
>> African School on Internet Governance, held in South Africa. He also has
>> training in Internet Policy and Media Law from University of Oxford and
>> University of Pennsylvania. In the mean time, he is scheduled to graduate
>> from Law School in 2015 and is also a Global Civics Student at the Global
>> Civics Academy (www.globalcivics.net )
>>
>> Ephraim has participated in ICANN as a member of Non Commercial Users
>> Constituency (NCUC) (www.ncuc.org/about/members/ ) and as a member of
>> the ICANN Fellowship alumni network. He has participated in all the 2014
>> ICANN Civil Society related events and has been volunteering part of his
>> free time as an Independent expert at ICANN's Implementation Advisory
>> Group for Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT) (
>> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-10-24-en ) and as a member
>> of the Translation and Transliteration PDP Working group (
>> https://community.icann.org/display/tatcipdp/6+Membership+and+Mailing+List+Archive
>> )
>>
>> Since 2012, Ephraim is also been an Author and Translator through various
>> online publications such as Global Voices Online (
>> http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/ephraim-kenyanito/ ), (an
>> international network of bloggers, translators, and citizen journalists
>> that follow, report, and summarize what is going on in the blogosphere in
>> every corner of the world.) Ephraim also write through The Daily
>> Journalist (http://thedailyjournalist.com/author/ephraimkenyanito/ ) and
>> through a personal blog, “The Diary of a Global Citizen
>> <http://thediaryofaglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/>” (
>> http://thediaryofaglobalcitizen.wordpress.com/ ). Previously he was a
>> Reporter and Multimedia Team member at European Journalism Centre’s “ThinkBrigade
>> Project.” (http://www.thinkbrigade.org/author/ephraim.k/ )
>>
>> Ephraim has also been carrying out various African Regional Integration
>> projects with the East African Community Secretariat (Arusha, United
>> Republic of Tanzania) and was an Intern at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign
>> Affairs & International Trade. He also has a passion for Democratic
>> Governance Issues and has been involved in research and promotion of
>> Governance Issues through projects facilitated by Transparency
>> International, MercyCorps (International) and Centre for Law and Research
>> International (CLARION) among other diverse-range of social development
>> organizations.
>>
>> 
>> 
>> --
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> 
>> *Ephraim Percy Kenyanito*
>> Website: http://about.me/ekenyanito
>> @ekenyanito
>> PGP: E6BA8DC1
>>
>>
>> On 27 September 2014 12:03, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
>>
>>> So far I believe we have these candidates to put forward into the
>>> process:
>>>
>>> * Avri Doria
>>> * Lea Kaspar
>>> * John Dada
>>> * Matthew Shears
>>> * Ephraim Percy Kenyanito
>>>
>>> Before we close on September 30 this is a last call for any final
>>> nominations.  Can I also please ask those who haven't already done so to
>>> send (me, or the list) a statement addressing the criteria?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> On Sep 18, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>  This is a call for nominations for civil society representatives for
>>> the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory group (MAG).
>>>
>>> This nomination process in 2014 will be run across several civil society
>>> coalitions, including Best Bits, IGC, APC, Diplo, NCSG, and Just Net
>>> Coalition. You are welcome to nominate through any of the above groups.
>>> Nominations close on Tuesday, September 30
>>>
>>> If you wish to nominate via Best Bits, or you have been nominated and
>>> wish to accept, please do so either on list or by email to
>>> jmalcolm at eff.org.
>>>
>>> Please include in your nomination, the nominee's name, country of
>>> residence and nationality, and gender. Please also specifically address
>>> each of the selection criteria below, giving us examples and evidence of
>>> how the nominee meets each of the individual selection criteria.
>>>
>>> CRITERIA
>>>
>>>    - Past record of active engagement as part of civil society groups
>>>    working on internet governance issues, acting or speaking out assertively
>>>    on behalf of public interest concerns.
>>>    - Willingness and commitment to consult with and report back to CS
>>>    networks (including beyond those focused on internet governance where
>>>    appropriate) on MAG discussions.
>>>    - Previous attendee at IGF at a global or regional level.
>>>    - Willing, available and able to participate effectively and
>>>    constructively in the MAG deliberations.
>>>
>>> Existing MAG members seeking CSCG endorsement should also follow this
>>> process.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nominations must close on Tuesday, September 30. The list of candidates
>>> endorsed by CSCG will be published no later than October 16.
>>>
>>>  --
>>> Jeremy Malcolm
>>> Senior Global Policy Analyst
>>> Electronic Frontier Foundationhttps://eff.orgjmalcolm@eff.org
>>>
>>> Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
>>>
>>> :: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World ::
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jeremy Malcolm
>>> Senior Global Policy Analyst
>>> Electronic Frontier Foundation
>>> https://eff.org
>>> jmalcolm at eff.org
>>>
>>> Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
>>>
>>> :: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World ::
>>>
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