[governance] IGC endorsements for MAG 2016 CS reps -- Endorsement of Deirdre Williams of St. Lucia by Island Resources Foundation

[Analia Aspis]

Dear Bruce,

Thank you very much for your mail.

Regards,
Analía

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Bruce G. Potter <bpotter at irf.org> wrote:

> Dear Members
>
> As a member of IGC, and as president of Island Resources Foundation, I
> want to join with the previously submitted endorsement by the directors of
> the Caribbean Conservation Association in support of the nomination of
> Deirdre Williams of St. Lucia, a small island nation in the Eastern
> Caribbean, to the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the 2016 Internet
> Governance Forum. In addition to the objective facts cited in Ms. Williams
> nomination (appended below), we specifically support this nomination
> because of her special small island sustainable development experience and
> engagement with a wide range of civil society organizations and programs in
> the Latin America and Caribbean region.
>
> For forty-four years (the same number of years as Ms. Williams has been
> resident in St. Lucia) Island Resources Foundation, founded in St. Thomas,
> US Virgin Islands, has pursued a vision where island systems are not
> miniature microcosms of continental areas, but rather where it is
> recognized that a failure to understand the differences between insular and
> continental systems has unanticipated and too often undesirable
> consequences for islanders. This is a vision that Ms. Williams fully
> understands, especially in its Caribbean manifestation and which she will
> be able to inculcate through her interventions in the MAG, leading up to
> the 2016 IGF.
>
> In spite of being a small regionally-focussed non-profit research and
> education environmental and conservation organization, Island Resources
> Foundation, especially under its founding president Dr. Ed Towle, created a
> large footprint in the field of small island studies. From that
> perspective, we are convinced that it is vital that island residents have a
> direct role in the policy implementation, management, and evaluation of
> resource management and sustainable development programs affecting them. In
> the 21st century, the Internet is the enabling technology of the age, and
> without the strong influence of wise islanders and island organizations of
> civil society that a candidate of the caliber of Ms. Williams can bring to
> the IGF policy management process, much of the real world benefits of the
> Internet will be lost or irrelevant to small islands everywhere.
>
> We thank you for your consideration of the nomination of Deirdre Williams
> to the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the 2016 Internet Governance
> Forum.
>
> Bruce Potter
>
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> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > Dear IGC members,
> >
> > I would like to seek your support for nomination as a civil society
> representative for the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the
> Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
> >
> > I have been involved with Internet Governance (IG) since 2008 and have
> been working to strengthen the links that bring Latin America and the
> Caribbean (LAC) together since the early 1990s. I have attended every IGF
> meeting since Hyderabad in 2008 (Nairobi 2011 virtually), and also all of
> the regional - Latin America and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for the IGF
> (LACIGF), and sub-regional – Caribbean IGF, since 2009. My attendance at
> these meetings was due to a broad range of funders to all of whom I am very
> grateful.
> >
> >       • Within the IGF environment I have worked, and am working,
> particularly with the Dynamic Coalition for Access and Disability (DCAD),
> with the MAG Remote Participation Working Group, and the now dormant
> Coalition Dynamique pour la Diversité Linguistique I have contributed to
> the work of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles and
> Dynamic Coalition on Public Access in Libraries
> >       • I follow discussions on Bestbits and the Justnet Coalition
> Forum, as well as on the Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) list, and in
> other areas where IG is discussed. I try to be aware of those issues that
> unite civil society, as well as of those issues about which there are
> strongly divergent opinions
> >       • For the last two years I have been one of two Co-coordinators of
> the IGC.
> >       • In 2014 I had the honour to be selected as the speaker from
> civil society at the opening ceremony of the IGF in Istanbul.
> >       • I was invited, in several different capacities, to be part of
> the pilot Stanford Deliberative Poll organised for this year’s IGF
> >       • I have good relationships across the group that identifies
> itself as civil society and also with those belonging to other
> constituencies. This is useful because the MAG should finally aim for
> consensus across all of its constituent groups.
> >       • My own priorities are in involving ordinary end users in the IG
> process despite barriers of bdisability, language and culture, gender,
> education, geographic location, etc. This brings with it a strong interest
> in the facilitation and improvement of remote participation.
> >
> >
> > Thank you all for your consideration
> >
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Deirdre Williams
> >
>
> —
> Bruce Potter
> President
> Island Resources Foundation
> 40+ Years Support for Small Island Sustainable Development
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