[governance] RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: Suggested Guidelines forNominationsCommittee - Renewal of GAID Steering Committee

Mon Sep 10 07:34:28 EDT 2007

Dear all, 

Thank you Parminder and others for raising this issue.

Further to my previous e-mail on the renewal of the Steering Committee
membership, all CS members of GAID Strategy Council and Panel of Advisors
were contacted and very little feedback was received. We have therefore been
unsuccessful in leading a CS self nomination process fir the Steering
Committee membership.

There is a large agreement on this list that the Strategy Council membership
renewal should give way to a wider CS self nomination process. 

The NomCom methodology used the last time in May 2006 can be used as a basis
again here (fyi, the May 2006 process was described at
http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10220> &id=10220).

Let me remind the deadlines for the Strategy Council renewal:

GAID Strategy Council

Deadline for outgoing members to express their interest in a renewal of
their terms

1 October 2007

Deadline for new nominations for membership 

30 November 2007

Date of the GAID structure with its renewed membership

May 2008

Kuala Lumpur

We therefore have two and a half months ahead of us. To secure transparency
and inclusiveness, the process of identifying a Nominations Committee and a
call for candidates to the Strategy Council should be ready to start as of
1st October (at that time we would have more information on which out-going
members are willing to stay and which CS seats will have to be renewed). 

Best, 

Philippe

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De : plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] De la
part de Parminder
Envoyé : dimanche, 9. septembre 2007 16:40
À : 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance at lists.cpsr.org
Objet : RE: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: Suggested Guidelines
forNominationsCommittee - Renewal of GAID Steering Committee

Philippe

Will you want to declare what happened with the GAID steering committee
nomination process (we did discuss it in Geneva recently, but it is good to
declare it here as well), and what do we intend to do with nominations for
the strategy council
 I am only taking suggestions form everyone here, and
not necessarily implying CONGO must take this role up.

 I am afraid CS will completely lose out in the new post-WSIS
multistakeholder processes. And the absence of any self-organizing process
of CS will be used by the powers-that-be to make it into  a system of
nominating CS reps from the top, which serves to create the illusion of
CS representation without it really being so. And then in the name of CS
involvement and multistakeholderism dominant ideological and policy
positions can get promoted, which leaves us worse off them without any
multistakeholder structures at all.

I wonder if there are actors here who have any interest in this issue. Is
so, we may need to act now. 

Best

Parminder 

________________________________________________

Parminder Jeet Singh

IT for Change, Bangalore

Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 

Tel: (+91-80) 2665 4134, 2653 6890

Fax: (+91-80) 4146 1055

 <http://www.itforchange.net/> www.ITforChange.net 

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From: plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] On
Behalf Of CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:20 PM
To: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: Suggested Guidelines for NominationsCommittee
- Renewal of GAID Steering Committee
Importance: High

Dear all, 

For your information and based on your feedback, I proposed this process to
the 25 CS members of GAID structures. 

It includes most of the comments made so far, while keeping them somewhat
flexible. 

We will try to make this process as simple and as little time-consuming as
possible, given the timelines.

It is of course understood that a nomination process for GAID Strategy
Council membership should be wider and more inclusive.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best, 

Ph

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De : CONGO - Philippe Dam [mailto:philippe.dam at ngocongo.org] 
Envoyi : mercredi, 22. ao{t 2007 18:45
@ : 'CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam'; 'GAID-CS'
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Objet : Suggested Guidelines for Nominations Committee - Renewal of GAID
Steering Committee
Importance : Haute

Dear all, 

As you know the GAID Secretariat recently circulated a note on the partial
renewal of the membership of the GAID governing structures. In particular,
it was announced that one of the two seats reserved to civil society
representatives in the GAID Steering Committee should be renewed before the
next Steering Meeting taking place in New York on 19 September 2007. The
GAID Secretariat invited civil society to identify nominations from among
their constituencies, through a self-nomination process. 

Timelines for the renewal of Steering Committee membership are as follows:

GAID Steering Committee

Deadline for outgoing members 

to express their interest in a renewal 

of their terms

15 August 2007

Deadline for new nominations for membership 

1 September 2007

Date of the membership renewal 

19 September 2007

New York

Based on the experiences of the CS Nomination Committee for the IGF Advisory
Group and GAID governing structures in the first half of 2006, we proposed
that we use of similar model for this process. However, due to the very
short time available and to the fact that only one seat is going to be
renewed, and in order to increase the representative ownership of the
nomination to be done, we also proposed that a Nominations Committee to
submit a recommendation for the member of the Steering Committee should be
identified among the outgoing civil society members of the GAID Strategy
Council and High Level Panel of Advisors. Those two proposals received
several supports among CS constituencies. 

Selection of the CS Nominations Committee 

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. 

Out of the 25 civil society members of the Strategy Council and of the High
Level Panel of Advisors (see list attached), at least 5 individuals should
volunteer to serve within the Nominations Committee. The final number of
members of the Nominations Committee could be flexible (preferably between 5
and 10 persons). They would act in their personal capacities. 

Volunteers should announce their wish to participate in the Nominations
Committee no later than Friday 24 August 2007 at 12:00 am GMT. The NomComs
final recommendations would have to be forwarded to the GAID Executive
Director no later than 1 September 2007. 

The work of the Nominations Committee would be facilitated by a non-voting
facilitator (I propose my service to serve in that capacity and to use the
CONGO website for more transparency and updates if needed). 

Thanks for your attention. We will try to make it as simple as possible for
volunteers serving in the nominations committee. Ill circulate some more
information on proposed timelines for identification of candidates and
proposed guidelines for selection tomorrow.

Looking forward to your reactions. 

All the best, 

Philippe

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