[bestbits] *reminder* Call for Nominations for civil representatives - CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

I support Lea's nomination
It is great to have a Bestbits participant in this.
Em 13/03/2016 07:25, "Lea Kaspar" <lea at gp-digital.org> escreveu:

> Dear Nadira, all,
>
> Please find below my expression of interest to become one of the 5 civil
> society representatives on the UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced
> Cooperation. I thank this group in advance for considering my application.
>
> Should you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
>
> Warm wishes,
> Lea
>
> ---
>
> >  short bio of one paragraph,
>
> Lea Kaspar heads Global Partner Digital <http://www.gp-digital.org/>'s
> (GPD) programmatic portfolio and leads the organisation’s international
> policy arm. Since joining GPD in 2012, she has been concentrating upon
> facilitating multistakeholder dialogue and civil society engagement in
> international internet governance debates. She has developed and
> coordinated information sharing, capacity building, and advocacy
> initiatives at the Global Conference on Cyberspace (GCCS), NETmundial, the
> WSIS+10 Review process, the 2013-2014 UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced
> Cooperation (WGEC), and various processes of the International
> Telecommunication Union (ITU). She is a member of the Internet Governance
> Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), a member of the UK
> Multistakeholder Group on Internet Governance (MAGIG), and sits on the
> Steering Committee of the UK IGF.
>
> > one paragraph of motivation to be a civil society representative to CSTD
> Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation,
>
> Following the conclusion of the WSIS Review Process, the WGEC will become
> a critical space to shape the normative landscape of global internet
> governance. It will present an opportunity to push a positive agenda for
> change, and, at the same time, pose a threat to the gains that we, as a
> global community, have made since the WSIS in 2005. With a growing trend to
> close and limit the space for public interest voices in internet governance
> debates, civil society will have a key role at WGEC to resist a reading of
> enhanced cooperation that is reserved for governments, and instead offer a
> vision that involves all stakeholders, based on the principles of openness,
> transparency and inclusiveness. Furthermore, WGEC will be an opportunity
> for civil society to build on the outcomes of the 2013-14 WGEC and
> NETmundial by demystifying the flexible, issue-based understanding of roles
> and responsibilities of stakeholders in internet governance. Building on
> the insight gained during WGEC 2013-14, my engagement  in the WSIS Review,
> and my experience on the IGF MAG, I would be privileged to contribute to
> this outcome by bringing my skills and expertise to the Working Group as
> one of its civil society representatives.
>
> > one paragraph describing substantive proposals or a vision on “how to
> further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis
> Agenda”, and
>
> The notion of enhanced cooperation as a principle of governance matters
> insofar as it contributes to achieving the WSIS vision of a
> “people-centered, development-oriented information society”. Although
> anchored around the question of the role of governments, enhanced
> cooperation in support of the WSIS vision cannot be achieved without the
> involvement of all stakeholders. The most important immediate task in
> further implementing it will therefore be to clarify the roles of
> responsibilities of different stakeholders in internet governance. A
> starting point for this task is provided in the NETmundial outcome
> document
> <http://netmundial.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/NETmundial-Multistakeholder-Document.pdf>which
> states that “the respective roles and responsibilities of stakeholders
> should be interpreted in a flexible manner with reference to the issue
> under discussion”. As a member of the WGEC, I would seek to leverage the
> NETmundial outcome, as well as the mapping output of WGEC 2013-14, in order
> to develop practical recommendations to promote a flexible, issue-based
> understanding of roles and responsibilities, and a vision of enhanced
> cooperation based upon principles of openness, transparency, and
> inclusiveness.
>
> > one paragraph describing experience or qualifications to represent civil
> society on the CSTD Working Group.
>
> I have been an active member of the global internet governance community
> since 2012, focused on facilitating meaningful civil society engagement
> in international forums and processes, including at the recent WSIS+10
> Review and the 2013-14 WGEC. During the 2013-14 WGEC, I participated as
> an active observer in 4 out of 5 meetings of the Group. Following its
> establishment, I joined the WGEC Correspondence Group, and played a
> critical role in developing the mapping output of the Group, which served
> as the basis for the CSTD mapping report
> <http://www.giplatform.org/sites/default/files/CSTD_2014_Mapping_Internet_en%20Dec%202014.pdf>
> issued in November 2014. Through this engagement, I gained invaluable
> insight into the dynamics of the enhanced cooperation debate that I would
> seek to leverage as a civil society representative in the group’s reboot.
>
> > Name, gender, regional/geographical, as well as any appropriate
> affiliation information and contact information should be included as well.
>
> Gender: Female
>
> Nationality: Croatian (UN regional group: Eastern European)
>
> Affiliation: Global Partners Digital, UK
> ---
>
> *Lea Kaspar*
>
> Head of Programmes and International Policy | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL
>
> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL
>
> T: +44 (0)20 3818 3258 | M: +44 (0)7583 929216
>
> gp-digital.org
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Best Bits members,
>>
>> The outcome document of the United Nations General Assembly’s ten-year
>> review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2015
>> included a direction for the Chair of the Commission on Science and
>> Technology for Development (CSTD) to "establish a working group to develop
>> recommendations on how to further implement enhanced cooperation as
>> envisioned in the Tunis Agenda” . This will continue work done by an
>> earlier CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, that was active from
>> 2013-2014, and current CSTD Chair, Peter Major of Hungary,
>> has indicated that he will establish the new working group in a similar
>> fashion, with 20 UN Member States and 5 representatives from each of the
>> four identified stakeholder groups (business, civil society,
>> intergovernmental organizations, the technical & academic community).
>> While the exact time frame for the working group has not been established,
>> nominees are asked to consider  a service period of 2016-2017 (and
>> eventually the beginning of 2018).
>>
>> Hence, I call upon those who are interested to come forward and nominate
>> themselves through this list by March 12th, after that I will generate a
>> candidate list with the Bios to be presented in one email  the community
>> for 3 days endorsement period.  Based on the endorsement period I will
>> generate a short listing to be submitted to the NomCom of the Civil Society
>> Coordination Group by the end of  March 15th.
>>
>> Details of the UNCATAD call: available here
>>
>> Please, feel free to share this call with any Independent Civil Society
>> experts (i.e. those who are not nominated by a civil society network or
>> other community) who are welcome to send self-nominations directly to the
>> CSCG NomCom (email address: noncom06 at internetgov-cs.org).
>>
>> Nominations should include a
>> >  short bio of one paragraph,
>> >  one paragraph of motivation to be a civil society representative to
>> CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation,
>> > one paragraph describing substantive proposals or a vision on “how to
>> further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”,
>> and
>> > one paragraph describing experience or qualifications to represent
>> civil society on the  CSTD Working Group.
>> > Name, gender, regional/geographical, as well as any appropriate
>> affiliation information and contact information should be included as well.
>> >
>> > Proficiency in English is necessary for communications within the
>> Working Group.
>>
>> If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> > Nadira Alaraj
>> >
>> > ​Liaise of BestBits nominees to the CSCG
>>
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