[bestbits] MAG nomination

[Deirdre Williams]

Dear Bestbits members,

I would like to seek your support for nomination as a civil society
representative for the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the
Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

I have been involved with Internet Governance (IG) since 2008 and have been
working to strengthen the links that bring Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC) together since the early 1990s. I have attended every IGF meeting
since Hyderabad in 2008 (Nairobi 2011 virtually), and also all of the
regional - Latin America and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for the IGF
(LACIGF), and sub-regional – Caribbean IGF, since 2009. My attendance at
these meetings was due to a broad range of funders to all of whom I am very
grateful.


   - Within the IGF environment I have worked, and am working, particularly
   with the Dynamic Coalition for Access and Disability (DCAD), with the MAG
   Remote Participation Working Group, and the now dormant Coalition
   Dynamique pour la Diversité Linguistique
   <http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/dynamic-coalitions/73-linguistic-diversity>
   I have contributed to the work of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet
   Rights and Principles
   <https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/dynamiccoalitions/72-ibr> and Dynamic
   Coalition on Public Access in Libraries
   <https://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/114-preparatory-process/1003-dynamic-coalition-on-public-libraries>
   - I follow discussions on Bestbits and the Justnet Coalition Forum, as
   well as on the Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) list, and in other areas
   where IG is discussed. I try to be aware of those issues that unite civil
   society, as well as of those issues about which there are strongly
   divergent opinions
   - For the last two years I have been one of the Co-coordinators of the
   IGC.
   - In 2014 I had the honour to be selected as the speaker from civil
   society at the opening ceremony of the IGF in Istanbul.
   - I was invited, in several different capacities, to be part of the
   pilot Stanford Deliberative Poll organised for this year’s IGF
   - I have good relationships across the group that identifies itself as
   civil society and also with those belonging to other constituencies. This
   is useful because the MAG should finally aim for consensus across all of
   its constituent groups.
   - My own priorities are in involving ordinary end users in the IG
   process despite barriers of disability, language and culture, gender,
   education, geographic location, etc. This brings with it a strong interest
   in the facilitation and improvement of remote participation.

Thank you

Deirdre









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“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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