[governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees

Tue Jan 7 04:06:50 EST 2014

 
+ one for Norbert

with my best wishes for a succesful mandate

Jean-Louis Fullsack


> Message du 07/01/14 08:25
> De : "Grace Githaiga" 
> A : "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" , "Mawaki Chango" 
> Copie à : "Norbert Bollow" , "Ian Peter" , "Jeremy Malcolm" 
> Objet : RE: [governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees
> 
> 
+ 1 for Nobert. 
> 
> 


CC: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; nb at bollow.ch; ian.peter at ianpeter.com; jeremy at ciroap.org
> From: ecrire at catherine-roy.net
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:15:04 -0500
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; kichango at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees
> 
> 
I also support Norbert's candidacy.

>
Cheers,

> -- 
Catherine Roy
www.catherine-roy.net

> On 2014-01-06, at 18:01, Mawaki Chango  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  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" :
> 

> > 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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