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

Sat Jan 23 11:42:46 EST 2016

Thank you very much Carlton for your support.

Best,
Analía

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would wish the record to show that I, Carlton Samuels, most
> wholeheartedly and very strongly endorse and support this nomination.
> Deidre has been my colleague working in the vineyard and a friend for many
> years.  Her insights are forged by the experience of living and working in
> a small island developing state and, more importantly, she is willing to
> graciously share all of it to the benefit of all of us.
>
> Deidre possesses all of the skills and talents I feel a multistakeholder
> IGF should not only access but utilize for the greater good.
>
> -Carlton
>
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> *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround*
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:19 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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