[governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees

[Norbert Bollow]

Jeremy and Ian and all,

this is an expression of interest to serve on the Executive Committee
for the São Paulo meeting.

My chief interest in this context is to contribute to ensuring that
the agenda setting process for the São Paulo meeting will be
sufficiently inclusive of all relevant perspectives: Of course a single
two-days event that aims to reach a consensus on an outcome document
cannot productively address a too big range of topics, but I would
insist that it is critically important to carefully ensure that the
framing of the discourse on those topics is open enough that no kinds
of perspectives, especially no civil society perspectves, are excluded
from the outset.

Brief biography: Born in Germany in 1968 and attended public schools
there; moved to Switzerland in 1985 and studied mathematics and physics
and some informatics in Zurich. Significant technical experience
especially with FOSS technologies and standardization work. Active in
organized civil society processes related to IT and the Internet since
2004. Careful to keep the topics of civil society engagement separated
clearly from the topics of business interests.

Relevant experience includes:
* Chairmanship of the “Swiss Internet User Group” (SIUG), 2006-2009.
* Having successfully negotiated, as a civil society person, with
  Microsoft a fix to their patent non-assertion pledge regarding OOXML
  and some other specifications to resolve a potential patent threat
  to GPL-licensed software. (PJ of Groklaw was so surprised that she
  published a picture of a flying pig, in relation to this.)
* Chairmanship of the Swiss mirror committee for international
  standards on “Document Description and Processing Languages".
* Participation in the drafting process for the outcome document of
  the 2013 WSIS+10 review event in Paris.
* Having served as a co-coordinator of the IGC for most of 2013.
* Participated and organized workshops at multiple IGFs. This includes
  successful cooperation with the “focal points” for the CSTD Enhanced
  Cooperation WG for all non-governmental stakeholder constituencies to
  hold a workshop at the Bali IGF on “MS selection processes:
  accountability and transparency” (workshop 127).

Greetings,
Norbert



Am Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:41:17 +1100
schrieb "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>:

> 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
> 
> conference.  Committee members will engage on a global level with
> stakeholders to
> 
> 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)
> 
> 
> 
> This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the event,
> including: defining
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 1.      Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your
> individual civil society organisation(s)
> 
> 2.      Able to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups in a
> multistakeholder setting
> 
> 3.      Able to consult widely with civil society groups and to
> report back as the process progresses
> 
> 4.      Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these
> discussions
> 
> 5.      Broad knowledge of internet governance issues and the range
> of civil society perspectives on these issues
> 
> 6.      Capacity to participate assertively and creatively
> 
> 
> 
> Explanation of process 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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