[governance] Fwd: [cs-coord] Civil Society Speakers for IGF Closing Ceremony

Milton L Mueller mueller at syr.edu
Tue Aug 26 22:56:58 EDT 2014


This is quite an honor, all the more so for being totally unexpected. I will wait to see if the Secretariat approves these nominees; if so, I promise to have some interesting things to say! Congratulations to Dr Burcu Kilic as well; I look forward to listening to her.

Milton L Mueller
Syracuse University School of Information Studies
http://faculty.ischool.syr.edu/mueller/
Internet Governance Project
http://internetgovernance.org


From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Mawaki Chango
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 5:49 AM
To: Internet Governance
Subject: [governance] Fwd: [cs-coord] Civil Society Speakers for IGF Closing Ceremony

Dear all,

The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) has forwarded the below two CS nominations to the IGF Secretariat for speaker spots at the Istanbul IGF's closing ceremony. As one of your two IGC co-Coordinators, I have been tasked to represent this Caucus within that Group. Therefore and for your information, I am hereby forwarding the letter addressed by the CSCG Chair to the IGF Secretariat to that effect. At this point in time and in absence of well-developed and established selection procedures, all the Group members have done the best we could to choose those we believe (for various reasons) to be the strongest candidates for this opportunity among all strong candidates. It is our intent and part of our post-Istanbul agenda to work on clearly developing such procedures.

For now, let us congratulate the nominees, Milton and Burcu.
Best regards,

Mawaki
IGC Co-Coordinator and IGC Rep. to CS Coordination Group


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From: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com<mailto:ian.peter at ianpeter.com>>
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:21 AM
Subject: [cs-coord] Civil Society Speakers for IGF Closing Ceremony
To: igf at unog.ch<mailto:igf at unog.ch>
Cc: cs-coord at lists.bestbits.net<mailto:cs-coord at lists.bestbits.net>, Subi Chaturvedi <subichaturvedi at gmail.com<mailto:subichaturvedi at gmail.com>>

Dear Secretariat,
Subi Chaturvedi passed on to us your request for civil society nominations for speakers for this years IGF Closing Ceremony. Thank you for ensuring that civil society is involved in choosing its representatives to speak on this occasion.
This request was dealt with by the Internet Governance Civil Society Co ordination Group (CSCG). This peak group consists of representatives of the major civil society coalitions involved in Internet Governance issues, including Internet Governance Caucus, Best Bits, Association for Progressive Communications, Diplo Foundation, Just Net Coalition, Civicus, and Non Commercial Stakeholders Group of ICANN. The group, founded in 2013, has a primary role to ensure a co-ordinated civil society response and conduit when it comes to making civil society appointments to outside bodies. This was accepted and respected during the NetMundial (Brazil) process, and by the 1net community, and we will be pleased to also work with IGF in the future as regards civil society representation.
It was therefore appropriate for this body to consider the question of speakers for the IGF closing session as requested.
After calling for expressions of interest and nominations through the various networks, the CSCG discussed prospective speakers and makes the following recommendations.
Firstly, we believe that civil society must have two speakers. Just like governments or any other stakeholder group, we have more perspectives than can be handled with just one speaking slot,  and even with two speakers we feel we are under-represented.
With this in mind, and bearing also in mind the multistakeholder principle that stakeholders should choose their own representatives, we submit the following two names.
 SPEAKER NO 1
Our first speaker is Dr Burcu Kilic. Dr Kilic is a Turkish citizen who is an expert on legal, economic and political issues surrounding intellectual property law, policy, development and innovation. We are pleased to be able to nominate such a talented speaker from the host country.
SPEAKER NO 2
Our second speaker is Dr Milton Mueller. Dr Mueller is a Professor at Syracuse University. His research, teaching and public service for the last 15 years have been concentrated on the internet governance arena.
Please let us know if you need any further information or contact details.

Sincerely,


Ian Peter
Independent Chair, on behalf of the Internet Governance Civil Society Coordination Group


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