[governance] Civil Society Speakers for IGF Closing Ceremony

Thu Aug 28 04:13:12 EDT 2014

Dear C

Will we be able to have two speakers, or will the Secretariat select one
of these two?

Anriette

On 28/08/2014 01:18, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
> 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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