[WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership

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I volonteer for the CS NomCom Pool.

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GAID Strategic Council membership

Dear all, 

This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom
process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID
Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure
might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so
that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some
flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December). 

Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines
below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be
published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in
selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about
that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but
the process could remain unchanged.

Selection of a CS Nomination Committee

The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their
personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For
the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many
volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.

Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce
themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS
affiliation at wsis at ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers,
ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published
online.

The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21
November 2007. 

*          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to
demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related
processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of
civil society self-organised working processes.

*          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from
selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if
you are randomly selected) does. 

*          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a
representative selection in the Nom Com. 

*          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the
Nomination Committee.

The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on
21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a
non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody
objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).

If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons
by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among
this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee
CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to
identify such membership.

Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council

Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all
representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to
WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for
Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the
MDGs.

Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must
be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m.
GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:

Name:
CS Affiliation(s):
Country:
Gender:
Age:
Biographical Statement:
Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and
criteria.

They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to
the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.

Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected
that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow
for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.

As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS
self-nomination process and to make it successful.

Looking forward to reading you in this regard.

Best regards, 

Philippe

Philippe Dam
CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
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