[bestbits] Civil Society Coordination Group - chair and BB representative positions open

[Becky Lentz]

Thanks to Jeremy and the GP team for coordinating/supporting the meeting,
and looking forward to whatever summary report follows.

Cheers,
Becky

-----Original Message-----
From: <bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net> on behalf of Jeremy Malcolm
<jmalcolm at eff.org>
Reply-To: Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org>
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 3:10 PM
To: bestbits <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
Subject: [bestbits] Civil Society Coordination Group - chair and BB
representative positions open

>Thanks to those who came to the Best Bits meeting last week.  With all
>of the ensuing activity at the IGF, we have not yet managed to put
>together a report of the meeting, but this will be sent soon (along with
>some photos of the event).
>
>However there is one item that had been on the agenda for the final
>session of the day that I neglected to bring up, and this was about the
>Civil Society Coordination Group, which is the small group of
>representatives of civil society networks in the Internet governance
>space that coordinates joint nomination of civil society representatives
>for positions such as the IGF MAG.
>
>Since its inception, Ian Peter has been the chair of the CSCG and I have
>been the Best Bits representative.  But Ian is stepping down, and I am
>also willing to step down, so I would like to invite you to consider any
>suggestions for replacements.  The positions are not very demanding in
>terms of time, but they can sometimes require you to respond quickly
>when a nomination opportunity comes up on short notice.
>
>The chair should be someone who is well organised, can act in a neutral
>manner, and has a track record of involvement with the Internet
>governance community.  The Best Bits representative should also be
>someone who is well connected with the community and whose particular
>responsibility will be to liaise with our list about the opportunities
>that come up, and to relay and explain our suggestions to the rest of
>the CSCG.
>
>If anyone is interested in either of these positions, or would like to
>nominate someone else who may be interested, please let me know.
>
>-- 
>Jeremy Malcolm
>Senior Global Policy Analyst
>Electronic Frontier Foundation
>https://eff.org
>jmalcolm at eff.org
>