[governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees

Louis Pouzin (well) pouzin at well.com
Tue Jan 7 05:20:33 EST 2014 

Norbert is an excellent proposition. He will exert his keen sense of
analysis and his open mind for problem solving.

Louis


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Jean-Louis FULLSACK
<jlfullsack at orange.fr>wrote:

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> + one for Norbert
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> with my best wishes for a succesful mandate
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> Jean-Louis Fullsack
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> > 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
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> + 1 for Nobert.
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> 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
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> I also support Norbert's candidacy.
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> Cheers,
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> > --
> Catherine Roy
> www.catherine-roy.net
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> > On 2014-01-06, at 18:01, Mawaki Chango <kichango at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  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,
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> Mawaki
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
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> 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>:
> >
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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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > • 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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