[governance] Call for Nominations - Brazil committees
Devon Blake
devonrb at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 10:36:35 EST 2014
I support Norbert!
On Jan 7, 2014 3:26 AM, "Kivuva" <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
> I also endorse Norbert's nomination. He's a trusted pair of hands and
> an asset to the community.
>
> On 07/01/2014, Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > + 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 Roywww.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
> >
> >
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> > 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.
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> >
> >
> > 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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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >> This committee will set the high level political tone and objectives
> >
> >> of the
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> >>
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> >> conference. Committee members will engage on a global level with
> >
> >> stakeholders to
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> >>
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> >> encourage participation in the conference and maximize its chances of
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> >> success.
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> >>
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> >> This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.
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> >>
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> >> • Committee No. 3: Multistakeholder Executive Committee (EC)
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> >>
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> >>
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> >> 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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> >>
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> >>
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> >> The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is midnight UTC 7
> >
> >> January 2014.
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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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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> >>
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> >>
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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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> >>
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> >>
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> >> CRITERIA
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> >> The following factors (among others) will be used to assess the
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> >> suitability of candidates
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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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
> >
> >>
> >
> >> 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
> >
> >>
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> >> 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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