[governance] Civil Society MAG Appointments - Call for comments

[Mawaki Chango]

Folks, this is a lengthy message requesting your feedback as regards
Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) nominations
and the role that the Internet Governance Civil Society Co ordination Group
(CSCG) might play.

The history that led to this has been that, in the past various, civil
society groups have nominated separately, with the result being that the
Secretariat made its own decisions, including in some cases people with no
active involvement with the civil society groups. Last year for the first
time we were able to achieve a degree of cross-endorsements between our
groups, but this was still confusing to the IGF Secretariat. To remedy
this, we are looking this year for the first time to have a more
comprehensive civil-society endorsement process for candidates.

In this respect, we expect to issue a call for candidates next Thursday
(September 18). In the meantime, as we finalise this approach, your
comments are sought on the following.



TIMETABLE



The draft timetable is as follows. Bear in mind that each coalition member
will be calling for its own nominations which will be collated with others
at a later stage

Thurs, Sep 18 - release call for nominations and final selection criteria



Tues, September 30 - close of nominations



October 1-3 - collation of nominations and shortlisting from various
coalitions



October 4- 14 - completion of selections and publication of names to lists



October 16 - forwarding names to IGF Secretariat.





Your comments on this are welcome.

PROCEDURES

The draft procedures follow. These are still being refined within CSCG, but
your input is welcome.



The role of CSCG is to ensure a co-ordinated civil society response and
conduit when it comes to making civil society appointments to outside
bodies.



The following is the procedure which CSCG follows when a request for civil
society appointments is received.



1.       CSCG may be involved in nominations when requested to do so by
either one
of its members or by an outside organisation requesting CS involvement. When
such a request is received, CSCG will clarify what has been requested and,
in
a case where CS already has representation, consult with existing
representatives in clarifying the involvement required.

2.       CSCG will not be involved in any appointments of CS
representatives if more than 35% of its coalition members determine not to
be involved in the process, or where the number with a clear determination
to be involved does not exceed those expressing a wish not to be involved.
(Others may have a neutral or undecided stance) Where coalition members
choose not to be involved and a decision to proceed is made, their decision
to do so will be announced (if they so wish) as part of any announcement of
chosen representatives. The decision to be involved or not is the primary
responsibility of each constituency.

3.       Any CSCG member who wishes to be eligible for selection as part of
any process must announce that intention before a call for candidates is
announced, and may nominate another representative of their coalition to
take their place on the Nomcom.

4.       CSCG as a whole will determine selection criteria for any
appointments and announce them as part of a call for candidates.

5.       CSCG will determine and manage a timetable for the process.

6.       A separate CSCG mailing list will be established for each
nomination process.

7.       Unless otherwise determined by CSCG members, each coalition will
issue its own call for candidates, and forward appropriate names to CSCG at
the nominated close of nominations. Coalitions are at liberty to shortlist
their own candidates and only submit appropriate names, or to forward all
names received

8.       Where time permits and as appropriate, candidates may be asked to
address selection criteria in their nominations.

9.       The CSCG Nomcom will consist of all voting members and the non
voting chair, with the exception of representatives of coalitions who
choose not to participate in a particular process.

10.   The Nomcom in making its decisions should determine appropriate
procedures to arrive at a final decision. But unless circumstances suggest
otherwise, it is suggested that selection should begin with a shortlisting
process, which will assist in identifying most favoured candidates and
which candidates should be examined more closely. Following from
shortlisting, which is a guide only and not an indication of which
candidates should be selected,  Nomcom members will arrive at the final
candidates list, using on line exchanges and if necessary conference
linkups to determine the final slates.

11.   All members of the Nomcom are required to consider the interests of
civil society as a whole, and not just their own coalition, in determining
appropriate representatives

12.   All Nomcoms will take into account geographic and gender balance in
determining their final selections, while considering also the need for the
breadth of viewpoints/worldviews represented within civil society to be
represented.  While realising that complete balance will not be able to be
achieved in every individual instance. CSCG members are requested to take
into account any such deficits in balances in previous CSCG decisions in
making selections, with an objective of achieving balance over a period of
time which may not be achievable in every particular case.

13.   The records of each Nomcom will be destroyed six months after the
process is completed.





SELECTION CRITERIA

The following are suggested selection criteria for MAG for your comments
(see also comments above re achieving balance across the slate of
candidates)



1.       Past record of active engagement as part of civil society groups
working on internet governance issues

2.       Consultative style

3.       Previous attendee at IGF

4.       Able to work constructively with other stakeholder groups







A period for comments and suggestions is now open. A call for candidates
will be issued on Thursday, September 18.



Ian Peter

(Independent Chair, CSCG)



CSCG members are:

Association for Progressive Communications,  represented by Chat Garcia
Ramilo, Deputy Executive Director

Best Bits, represented by Jeremy Malcolm, Steering Committee member

Civicus, represented by Mandeep Tiwana, Head of Policy and Research

Diplo Foundation,  represented by Ginger (Virginia) Paque,  Internet
Governance Programmes

Just Net Coalition, represented by Norbert Bollow, Co-convenor

Internet Governance Caucus, represented by Dr Mawaki Chango, Co-Coordinator

The Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group, (NCSG) represented by Robin Gross,
NCSG Executive Committee
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