[governance] CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation : Update

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Wed Mar 13 16:25:00 EDT 2013 

Anriette wrote;

"As I don't know the outcome of the CSTD Chair's decision, and
as I have not communicated directly with nominees, I would rather not
disclose the names of those that I recommended at this stage."

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Anriette,
>
> Thank you for this. It is also great to see a really excellent group and
> diverse people who participated in assisting you in the selection process.
>
> Kindly let us know the results of the selection.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Sala
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all
>>
>> *Update from the CS focal point for the convening of the CSTD WG on
>> Enhanced Cooperation*
>>
>> *Background*
>> I was asked by the chair of the CSTD (Ambassador Miguel Julian Palomino
>> de la Gala from Peru) to be the focal point for selecting civil society
>> participants. My task was to come up with 3 names from developing
>> countries, and 3 from developed countries/ From these 6 names the final
>> 5 would be selected by Ambassador de la Gala.
>>
>> To help me with this task, and to make it more inclusive I approached 7
>> individuals that are active in internet-related civil society spaces
>> and/or organisations. We were not meant to be the perfect group or a
>> formal 'nomcom'. Nevertheless they are all individuals that I personally
>> trust and respect and whom believe are trusted by those in civil society
>> that know them and that have worked with them.
>>
>> I tried to make the group regionally diverse by having one person each
>> from Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America. In
>> recognition of the IGC's role in our sector, and and because both of
>> them are such committed facilitators of civil society participation, I
>> invited two past Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) coordinators.
>>
>> The composition of the selection group was as follows:
>>
>> Nnenna Nwakanma, FOSSFA - Africa
>> Anja Kovacs, Internet Democracy - Asia
>> Robin Gross, IP Justice - North America
>> Fatima Cambronero,  AGEIA DENSI - Latin America
>> Wolf Ludwig, Communica-CH/EuroDIG - Europe
>> Ginger Paque - past-IGC coordinator
>> Ian Peter - past-IGC coordinator
>> Anriette Esterhuysen, APC - CSTD appointed civil society focal point and
>> convenor of the group.
>>
>>
>> I was assisted by my colleague Emilar Vushe as I was travelling for much
>> of the period that we had to do our work.
>>
>> To avoid conflict of interest I deliberately did not invite anyone from
>> APC (members or staff) to be on the selection group. I also withdrew
>> from the internal APC process of selection of nominees, and, as a
>> further measure to prevent conflict of interest and to create
>> opportunities for others, I decided not to make myself available for
>> nomination for the group. I had served on the previous CSTD Working
>> Group on IGF Improvements and felt it was good to give others a chance.
>>
>> *Nominees*
>> To make the call as wide as possible, within the extremely short
>> timeframe I posted to the several lists and encouraged people to spread
>> the call. In the text of my message I encouraged people from outside the
>> narrow internet governance community to participate. We received 20
>> nominations. One withdrew, leaving us with 19 to review. I am happy to
>> disclose the names of all the nominees but I want to check with them
>> first in case they have any objection to this.
>>
>> *'Endorsed' or pre-selected nominations*
>> Some nominations were submitted by the and some by civil society
>> networks or organisations. Some of the nominations were also 'endorsed'
>> or supported by other individuals or organisations.
>>
>> To recognise the effort that has gone into these pre-selection processes
>> and endorsements I pre-assigned a score of 1 to these candidates. I felt
>> that any higher number would not be fair, as it was not mentioned as a
>> requirement in the call for nominations.
>>
>> *Scoring process*
>> Scoring was done using a score sheet with criteria based on my
>> understanding of what will be involved in the work of the working group.
>> The selection group assigned a score of 1 to 5 to each candidate against
>> each of the criteria with the lowest score being 1 and the highest 5.
>> The selection group was encouraged, to be as fair as possible, to score
>> candidates on the basis of the information in their nomination forms.
>>
>>
>> The criteria were as follows:
>>
>>
>>   * Experience and expertise in public-interest oriented policy processes.
>>
>>   * Experience and expertise in EC in relation to WSIS and IG
>>
>>   * Ablity and commitment to put in the work and travel
>>
>>   * Ability to work collaboratively and confidently in multi-stakeholder
>>     processes that involves both consensus building and dealing with
>>     conflicting interests.
>>
>>
>> *Shortlist*
>> Based on the initial scoring I compiled a short list of 12 people. I
>> then asked to selection group to review the short list, and rank them in
>> order of their suitability for the WG and to give consideration to
>> regional and gender balance.
>>
>>
>> *Submission to CSTD Chair*
>> After the second round of reviewing by the selection group I came up
>> with a list of 8 names (the required 6 -- who were the most highly
>> ranked by the selection group - with two more names from the top 12 whom
>> I felt would bring particular expertise to the group) which I submitted
>> to the CSTD for the Chair's final review and selection. I am not sure yet
>> when the composition of the WG will be announced but I know that the CSTD
>> will do this as quickly as possible.
>>
>> Thank you to everyone who made themselves available for nomination.
>> There was huge interest in this Working Group, and the quality of the
>> candidates made selection (particularly in some regions) extremely
>> difficult. As I don't know the outcome of the CSTD Chair's decision, and
>> as I have not communicated directly with nominees, I would rather not
>> disclose the names of those that I recommended at this stage.
>>
>> I do want to point out to all who were nominated or nominated themselves
>> that even if you do not make it onto the Working Group, there will still be
>> opportunities to participate in its work through participating in whatever
>> processes it establishes to get input from the broader internet community.
>>
>> My sincere thanks to the members of the selection group. Firstly, every
>> person I asked said yes! I was impressed and grateful.
>>
>>
>> Then they proceeded to work very hard, in a very short timeframe. They
>> undertook the work with the seriousness it deserves. I would not have
>> been able to do this without their input. In fact, this process
>> confirmed my belief in the value of the 'small crowd' and in civil
>> society's ability to deal with the complexity of such selection
>> processes with good judgement and as much fairness as possible.
>>
>>
>> Anriette Esterhuysen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> anriette esterhuysen anriette at apc.org
>> executive director, association for progressive communications
>> www.apc.org
>> po box 29755, melville 2109
>> south africa
>> tel/fax +27 11 726 1692
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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