[governance] United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC) - Call for Nominations

Mon Feb 29 20:13:29 EST 2016

Dear IGC members,
The Nominations committee (nomcom) of the Civil Society Coordination Group
has issued the following call for nominations for the United Nations
Commission for Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Working Group
on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC). Please follow the directions as stipulated
by the call.
Thank you and best wishes,
Deirdre

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: UN Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation

The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) is seeking civil society
nominations from developed and developing countries as well as from
economies in transition, all geographic areas, and policy orientations
to serve as civil society representatives on the United Nations
Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Working
Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC).

Information about the working group can be found at:
http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193.
More information about the WG proposal can be found at:
http://unctad.org/meetings/en/Presentation/CSTD_2015_s11_Major_en.pdf

Peter Major, the Chair of the CSTD, has appointed CSCG as the focal
point for appointments of Civil Society representatives on the WGEC, and
CSCG has correspondingly established a nominations committee (Nomcom)
for this selection task. We are seeking one CS representative from each
of the five geographical areas: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe,
GRULAC, and WEOG. While the exact timeframe for the working group has
not been established, nominees are asked to consider a service period of
2016-2017 (and eventually the beginning of 2018).

Nominations should be submitted to the CSCG’s nominations committee via
the email address nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot] org no later than
15 March 2016, or via one of the member coalitions (IGC, Best Bits, JNC,
NCSG, APC) following their procedures. Independent civil society experts
(i.e. those who are not nominated by a civil society organisation or
network) are welcome to send self-nominations directly to the CSCG
nomcom by the same deadline.

Nominations should include a short bio of one paragraph, one paragraph
of motivation to be a civil society representative to the WGEC, one
paragraph describing substantive proposals or a vision on “how to
further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis
Agenda”, and one paragraph describing experience or qualifications to
represent civil society on the WGEC. Name, gender,
regional/geographical, as well as any appropriate affiliation
information and contact information should be included as well.

Nominees will be evaluated using the information submitted. Final
selection will consider gender and geographical location, to ensure an
appropriate balance.

About CSCG and the NomCom for the UN WGEC:

The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) exists solely to ensure a
coordinated civil society response and conduit when it comes to making
civil society appointments to outside bodies. It comprises
representatives of the coalition members of the Best Bits, Association
for Progressive Communications, Internet Governance Caucus, Just Net
Coalition, and Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group of ICANN.

As per the CSCG's procedures (available at
http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures), for any selection task, the CSCG
will determine selection criteria and announce them as part of a call
for candidates, which will then be circulated as appropriate, in this
case as broadly as possible across as many different constituencies as
possible.

Selection criteria for WGEC:
--substantive proposals or a vision on “how to further implement
enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”
--experience in or qualifications to represent civil society on the WG
--English language proficiency is necessary for communications within
the WGEC

The CSTD Chair has indicated that continuation of institutional memory
as a criteria and that former members of the previous working group be
included in the selection to the extent possible.

It is understood that nominees must be able to attend meetings of the
WGEC. While remote participation will most probably be available, the UN
CSTD Chair notes that remote participation may not be very efficient in
cases of intensive debates and drafting. The Secretariat of the CSTD
will try and find means to facilitate participation from developing
countries.

All members of the CSCG nomination committee are required to consider
the interests of civil society as a whole, and not just those of their
own coalition, in determining appropriate representatives. The
nomination committee 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.

Please feel free to contact us if you need further information or to
discuss how we can work together to ensure our mutual objective to
ensure the best possible civil society representation on this Working
Group. The co-chairs of CSCG, Ginger Paque and Ian Peter, are available
for inquiries.

The members of the CSCG nomcom for the CSTD WGEC are:

Deirdre Williams, representative of the Civil Society Internet Governance
Caucus (IGC), and recent Co-Coordinator of the IGC

Chat Garcia Ramilo, representative of the Association for Progressive
Communications (APC), and Deputy Executive Director of APC

Ginger (Virginia) Paque, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, and with Diplo
Foundation, Internet Governance Programmes (contact: virginiap [at]
diplomacy [dot] edu)

Ian Peter, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, independent (contact: ian [dot]
peter [at] ianpeter [dot com)

Nadira Alaraj, representative of Best Bits

Norbert Bollow, representative of the Just Net Coalition (JNC), and
Co-Convenor of JNC

Robin Gross, representative of ICANN’s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group
(NCSG), and member of the NCSG Executive Committee

Information on the Previous WGEC

Previous representatives from civil society
Mr. Carlos A. Afonso, Executive Director, NUPEF Institute
Ms. Avri Doria, Independent Researcher
Ms. Grace Githaiga, Associate, Kenya ICT Action Network
Ms. Joy Liddicoat, Programme Leader for Human Rights on the Internet,
Association for Progressive Communications
Mr. Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change

Documents produced during or following previous WGEC meetings can be
found on the CSTD website. Of particular interest:

http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=330
http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=396
http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=425
http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=545
http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=610

-- 
“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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