[governance] Brief report Re: Civil society representation at WSIS+10 in Paris

Wed Feb 20 14:55:15 EST 2013

Anriette and I have both been alloted 5 minutes to contribute to the High
Level panel on Tuesday afternoon (2.30 pm) (I'm not yet sure of the format
but it sounds as though we are contributing from a floor mike.

Our task is to contribute to an "exchange on major developments since
2003/2005, new challenges as well as possible post-2015 arrangements" i.e.
the past present and future of the Information Society etc. (in 5 minutes!).

Bullet points folks?

M

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[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Tracy F.
Hackshaw @ Google
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:01 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Grace Githaiga
Cc: irp at lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Brief report Re: Civil society representation at
WSIS+10 in Paris

Hi Grace:

Thanks for reaching out.

I would certainly appreciate if you could spare 45 secs or thereabouts to
raise awareness, by mention, of the challenges facing Small Island
Developing States.

For guidance, there is some excellent information emanating from the
recently held IGF-12 Workshop on a similar topic at
http://wsms1.intgovforum.org/content/no81-internet-governance-and-sustainabl
e-development-case-small-island-developing-states as well as at
http://www.commonwealthigf.org/blog/internet-governance-challenges-in-small-
island-developing-states-raising-the-volume-of-our-voices/

Thanks in advance.

Rgds,

Tracy

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>
wrote:

Dear All

As Nobert informed members, I will be the CS speaker during the opening
ceremony. I have been allotted five minutes and would like to request
members on these lists to let me know if there are issues you would like me
to raise during the opening ceremony.  Anriette Esterhuysen and Michael
Gurstein will be speakers during the  "High level" session on Monday
afternoon, while Anita Gurumurthy will speak during the closing. 

My bit is only for the opening and would like to feel that I be highlighting
your concerns. 

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Rgds

Grace

> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:19:28 +0100
> From: nb at bollow.ch
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: [governance] Brief report Re: Civil society representation at
WSIS+10 in Paris

> 
> Dear all
> 
> As I mentioned before, Janis Karklins of UNESCO requested Marianne
> Franklin (one of two co-chairs of the Internet Rights and Principles
> Coalition) and myself to suggest speakers for the Paris WSIS+10 main
> sessions to represent civil society. In the absence of any really
> convincing answer to the question of who else should do this :-) we
> have done so.
> 
> By necessity my participation in this process was not a formal
> nomination activity of the Caucus, which would have required a NomCom,
> and without a standing NomCom available for any tasks that might come
> up, there was simply not enough time for initiating a NomCom
> process.
> 
> First there was the request regarding the opening session, and very
> recently the request regarding the other sessions. In each case a
> reasonably quick response was expected.
> 
> I recommend that for future major events, a NomCom should be set up well
> in advance, and it should prepare well in advance with thoughts on
> potential nominees and selection criteria.
> 
> For the current WSIS+10 event, a very much ad hoc process was used,
> where I have done my best to take into account the responses to the call
> for expressions of interest that I posted here on the list.
> 
> I believe that we have a very good end result:
> 
> 
> Opening session:
> Grace Githaiga
> 
> 
> 
> 

> I have also encouraged these civil society representatives to consult
> widely, as per the email message pasted below.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
> 
> --snip------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Janis Karklins <j.karklins at unesco.org> wrote:
> 
> > I am writing to you with proposal to take the floor on behalf of the
> > civil society
> 
> Dear Anita, Anriette, Grace and Michael (the civil society
> representatives at the plenaries of WSIS+10)
> 
> As you probably know, Janis Karklins of UNESCO had requested Marianne
> and myself to suggest speakers for the WSIS+10 main sessions to
> represent civil society. In the absence of any really convincing answer
> to the question of who else should do this :-) we have done so.
> 
> Speaking just from my personal perspective right now, I would like to
> encourage all of you to consult widely on what are important points to
> make, using the mailing lists of the Internet Governance Caucus and the
> Internet Rights and Principles coalition and whatever other networks
> you're active in.
> 
> Of course if you do that, given the great breadth and diversity of
> civil society, you're going to get more suggestions than you can use,
> and it's of course each panelist's discretion to select which of the
> points you want to mention and which of them you want to specifically
> emphasize and how much you want to add from your personal perspective -
> also taking into account what in your view may have been
> underemphasized by other civil society speakers.
> 
> Overall (and I emphasize again that I'm speaking just from my personal
> perspective here), I think that it is particularly important to clearly
> draw attention to important points that have so far been largely
> overlooked or ignored in the IGF process and other WSIS followup
> processes.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 

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