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

Wed Aug 27 19:18:26 EDT 2014

I am quite happy with the choices of Dr Burcu Kiliç and Dr Milton Müller
as speakers for civil society in the closing session.

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 08/26/2014 11:56 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> 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
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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