[governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees

Carolina Rossini carolina.rossini at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 19:23:29 EST 2014 

i think all the names should be gathered in one place and then the
expression of support should be gathered, I know more people applied but
not in the open list
Ian, are you still the person that would do that?
thank you


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Catherine Roy <ecrire at catherine-roy.net>wrote:

> I also support Norbert's candidacy.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Catherine Roy
> www.catherine-roy.net
>
> On 2014-01-06, at 18:01, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I support Norbert's self-nomination/expression of interest to serve on the Executive
> Committee.
> I am confident he will be a great asset for ensuring the inclusion of
> broader civil society perspectives during the agenda setting exercise for
> the BR meeting.
> Thanks,
>
> Mawaki
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > • Committee No. 1:  Multistakeholder High­Level Committee (HLC)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > • 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is midnight UTC 7
>> > January 2014.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > CRITERIA
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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