[governance] WSIS+10 speakers

Remmy Nweke remmyn at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 07:31:16 EST 2015 

Hi all
Yes Anita was right the blame should not be ours in selection committee (CS) because we did provide some backups, however we are gathering the lessons thereof for the future and which should entail that UN agencies give us enough time to work things out incase of this kind of eventuality, more so considering visa issues too. 
In some countries it take longer time than the other except for those already with visa.
Regards
Remmy 

-----Original Message-----
From: "anita" <anita at itforchange.net>
Sent: ‎17/‎12/‎2015 06:53
To: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] WSIS+10 speakers

Dear Carlos

Greetings!

Indeed if we did take a position that selection of speakers should be organisational and not individual, it would not matter who speaks from any organisation. The selection committee decided to shortlist individuals, and process wise, this is something to consider for the future in terms of nominations. (the SDGs process officially recognised only groups and civil society organised itself around these)

Secondly, it was Matthew who replaced Anriette. So, there is a randomness there about the process and again, for me, it is about the way we had, as the selection committee, spent time in achieving a balance among individuals.

Finally, about whose fault it is - I believe that CS protocol should be that if I am selected, and then invited, and cant go, I should inform the CSCG as I would inform DESA/ OPGA. This is about internal accountability in civil society. Indeed, we do need to as a group persist with our criteria and impress upon OPGA that the selections and back ups (and we did submit backups) have a particular logic that we believe are about representativity. I do think that it may be our failure if we were unable to prevail upon the UN. But we all know that much of our power as civil society is only a moral force... I dont think therefore that it was 'our' fault.

Best wishes and hope you have a nice end of year and great new year!

anita



On Wednesday 16 December 2015 10:31 PM, Carlos Afonso wrote:

Dear Ian,

I suggest we do not do that. First of all, Deborah is a natural
replacement for Anriette - I do not think she will do a speech diverging
in any way from what Anriette would do.

Second, we do not have issues with the choice of Mathew as you state
correctly, except for the fact that he is not from Tatiana's region. But
there is another civil society rep from the South listed, which is
Parminder (whatever the divergences of approach).

Third, I am sure that to do the replacement through our committee there
simply would not be enough time.

Finally, if we are failing to present the reps we chose, this is not the
fault of OPGA, it is our fault.

IMHO

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 16-12-15 04:04, Ian Peter wrote:
We have just been informed that OPGA has made two changes to the civil society speakers nominated for WSIS+10. Tatiana Kapinga, who was unable to secure a US visa, and Anriette Esterhuysen, who was unable to stay to address the meeting, were replaced by Deborah Brown of APC and Matthew Shears of Center for Democracy and Technology.

While not wishing to be critical of either of the people chosen, members of the Civil Society Selection Committee believe that, despite the short timeframe,  it should have been consulted about these  changes. In particular, we are concerned that the changes made by OGPA resulted in four of our five speakers being from WEOG areas. This lack of geographic balance is unfortunate, and could have been avoided.

We will convey our disappointment to OPGA at a later stage, but wanted civil society networks to be aware of this issue.

Ian Peter



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