[bestbits] Fwd: [cs-coord] Final Report of CSCGWG

[Nadira Alaraj]

Dear Best Bits members,
I'm forwarding to you the final report of the CSCG Working Group through
its outgoing chair and chairman of the CSCG Ian Peter.

Taking this opportunity to express my admiration for Ian's leadership and
wisdom in pulling the strings of heated discussions to the best acceptable
results to the civil society at large.

It was great pleasure and learning experience for me working with every
single member of the working team and the nomcom. Thank you all.

Best wishes,
Nadira ALARAJ

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 3:26 AM
Subject: [cs-coord] Final Report of CSCGWG
To: cs-coord at internetgov-cs.org


(please circulate as appropriate)


On May 31 2016 a CSCG Working Group (CSCGWG) was established with the Terms
of Reference below. This document is a Report of the Working Group's
activities; comments on what we have been able to achieve follow the Terms
of Reference.

I believe the Working Group has been a useful exercise, resulting in some
improvements to the operations of CSCG and some clarifications of basic
procedures. Many thanks go to all who participated and worked so well
together.

*TERMS OF REFERENCE *

To examine the current structure and mission of CSCG, and whether this
structure and current membership is the best way to ensure that civil
society representation is representative (including geographically,
politically, and in respect of gender balance)

   1.

   To consider in this examination whether a structure capable of receiving
   and administering funds to assist with civil society representatives
   attendance and travel should also be established
   2.

   To consider workload including
   1.

      The role of chair or co-chairs and rotation
      2.

      whether it is in civil society’s best interest to rotate nomcom
      membership rather than continuance of one representative group making all
      decisions
      3.

      liaison with other bodies to improve representivity in stakeholder
      selection procedure
      3.

   To examine current selection procedures to see whether improvements
   should be made
   4.

   To consider the role training could play in the future of CSCG
   5.

   To consider whether this Working Group should continue in some form
   after delivering its report.
   6.

   To report back to civil society networks with any resulting
   recommendations by August 31 2016

*COMMENTS*

*TOR 1 -* The question of a funding structure was discussed, and there was
general agreement that this would be an excellent step forward. As regards
a structure for this, it was generally thought this might best be done as a
separate entity to CSCG; perhaps with CSCG members being trustees of such a
body. Perhaps the entity might also be associated with a currently existing
civil society body capable of receiving funds. In general, it was thought
this was a substantial body of work which might best be addressed by a
separate working group.

*TOR 2* - The discussion of workload resulted in some substantial changes
which are now underway, including

   -

      new arrangements for chairs and co-chairs
      -

      two representatives per coalition member, and rotating nomcom
      membership
      -

      procedures for considering new members for CSCG

*TOR 3 - *A detailed review of selection procedures was undertaken,
resulting in a review of existing procedures. The revised Procedures have
been forwarded to CSCG for adoption.

*TOR 4*  -Training was discussed. There were no formal outcomes to this
discussion, but we do recommend that the training discussion be continued
forward, particularly with any working group established to look at a
funding mechanism.

*TOR 5* - The Working Group has decided that it should wind up its
activities, and any new working group should be established by the newly
seated CSCG if it considers it appropriate to do so.

*TOR 6 - *This report is in fulfilment of this requirement.

As Chair of the Working Group, and as outgoing Chair of the CSCG, I would
personally like to thank everyone who participated for their willingness to
work together on this, their enthusiasm to see CSCG strengthened, and for
the way they worked together to get these outcomes. I am sure that the work
of this group will be useful to the future of CSCG.

And as this is likely to be my last post as Chair of the CSCG – my term
expires in two weeks – I would also like to place on record my appreciation
of the work undertaken by the current members of CSCG – Norbert Bollow,
Robin Gross, Chat Garcia Ramilo, Nadira Alaraj, and Arsene Tungali. It's
very easy to praise chairs of groups, but the reality is that the strength
of CSCG comes down to the efforts of its member representatives, the trust
they enjoy and engender for the operations of CSCG, and their considerable
efforts, often in short time frames, to ensure the best possible civil
society representation. Their efforts have required that they support
inclusion of diverse voices, including opinions they may disagree with, in
order to ensure that the wide range of voices within civil society are
heard. Thanks also to their predecessors who got this exercise underway –
many people have contributed to CSCG become a respected organisation. I am
pleased to have been able to be part of its growth.




Ian Peter

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