Fw: [governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees

Carolina Rossini carolina.rossini at gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 16:42:06 EST 2014 

What are the names so far, pls?


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

>   Just a reminder re this – nominations close midnight UTC January 7.
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>  *From:* Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 22, 2013 3:41 PM
> *To:* governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> *Subject:* [governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees
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> This is a call for nominations to represent civil society on planning
> committees in preparations for the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting on
> Internet Governance”, to be held in Sao Paulo Brazil on April 23 and 24
> 2014.
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> *• Committee No. 1:  Multistakeholder High­Level Committee (HLC)*
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> This committee will set the high ­level political tone and objectives of
> the
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> conference.  Committee members will engage on a global level with
> stakeholders to
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> encourage participation in the conference and maximize its chances of
> success.
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> This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.
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> • *Committee No. 3:  Multistakeholder Executive Committee (EC)*
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> This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the event,
> including: defining
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> conference purpose/agenda, managing invitations, organizing input received
> into a coherent set of proposals for the conferees to address, managing
> conference proceedings and process, and directing all communications
> activities pre/­during/­post conference.  This committee will include 2
> civil society representatives
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> The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is *midnight UTC* 7*
> January 2014*.
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> If you are interested, you are invited to send a brief biography and a
> statement of relevant background and experience in response to this topic,
> or if you would prefer, you can send it to ian.peter at ianpeter.com(pending the appointment of a replacement IGC  representative on the
> co-ordination group). At the closing date for nominations, nominations
> submitted to various civil society networks will be compiled and assessed
> by the Civil Society Co ordination Group.
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> Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your application whether it is
> for the High Level Committee (HLC) or Executive Committee (EC) or both.
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> CRITERIA
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> The following factors (among others) will be used to assess the
> suitability of candidates
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> 1.      Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your
> individual civil society organisation(s)
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> 2.      Able to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups in a
> multistakeholder setting
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> 3.      Able to consult widely with civil society groups and to report
> back as the process progresses
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> 4.      Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these
> discussions
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> 5.      Broad knowledge of internet governance issues and the range of
> civil society perspectives on these issues
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> 6.      Capacity to participate assertively and creatively
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>  *Explanation of process *
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>  The civil society coordinating group is a loose peak body that came
> together this year to facilitate joint civil society participation in
> several nominating processes.  It currently comprises persons from the most
> active civil society coalitions or networks in the Internet governance
> space, which in no particular order are the Internet Governance Caucus,
> Diplo Foundation, Best Bits, the Non Commercial Stakeholder Group of ICANN,
> and the Association for Progressive Communications.  The current liaisons
> are Virginia Paque, Jeremy Malcolm, Robin Gross and Chat Garcia Ramilo,
> with Ian Peter as an independent facilitator.  Its current composition is
> imperfect - the boundary between an organisation and network is grey, and
> so is the scope of "Internet governance".  In particular, we are reaching
> out to other civil society networks to further broaden the inclusiveness of
> the group and have developed a draft set of criteria to assist in this
> process.
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> Likewise, the process for gathering and reaching consensus is also a work
> in progress, but progressive improvements to the process have been put in
> place since the group's first nomination.  These improvements include
> refinement of criteria for each member network to consider when putting
> forward names for consideration.  Other suggested changes to the process,
> such as the use of a randomly-selected nominating committee, have not met
> with consensual support from within the group and so have not been adopted
> for this nomination.  However, the coordinating group welcomes other
> suggestions for improvement of the joint process.
>
> Ian Peter
>
>
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*Carolina Rossini*
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Open Technology Institute
*New America Foundation*
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