[governance] Fwd: [Nomcom06] Fw: Civil Society Nominations for WGEC - selections from Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG)
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Congratulations for all those selected. Thank for the coordination
Best,
2016-03-31 22:36 GMT+02:00 Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>:
> Excellent slate of names. Congratulations to the nominees and to the Civil
> Society Coordination Group.
> Best
> Marília
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:15 PM, cisse.kane at bluewin.ch <
> cisse.kane at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
>> Bravo à l'équipe sélectionnée!
>>
>> Congratulations !
>>
>> Cissé
>>
>> ----Message d'origine----
>> De : williams.deirdre at gmail.com
>> Date : 31/03/2016 - 01:04 (GMT)
>> À : governance at lists.igcaucus.org
>> Objet : [governance] Fwd: [Nomcom06] Fw: Civil Society Nominations for
>> WGEC - selections from Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG)
>>
>>
>> Dear IGC,
>> Here is the result of the most recent selection process by the Civil
>> Society Coordination Group (CSCG) of 5 civil society members for the UN
>> Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) Working Group
>> on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC) in 2016.
>> Congratulations to those selected.
>> Deirdre
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
>> Date: 30 March 2016 at 17:54
>> Subject: [Nomcom06] Fw: Civil Society Nominations for WGEC - selections
>> from Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG)
>> To: cs-coord at internetgov-cs.org, CSCG NomCom for the CSTD WG on Enhanced
>> Cooperation <nomcom06 at internetgov-cs.org>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 31, 2016 8:45 AM
>> *To:* Peter Major <pmajor at bluewin.ch> ; 'Ginger Paque'
>> <virginiap at diplomacy.edu>
>> *Cc:* stdev at unctad.org
>> *Subject:* Civil Society Nominations for WGEC - selections from Civil
>> Society Coordination Group (CSCG)
>>
>>
>> Dear Peter,
>>
>> We submit to you the five names selected by the Civil Society
>> Co-ordination Group (CSCG) to represent us on the new Working Group on
>> Enhanced Co-operation. Our names are:
>>
>> *Richard Hill (WEOG)*
>>
>> *Lea Kaspar (EE)*
>>
>> *Parminder Singh (AP)*
>>
>> *Carlos Afonso (GRULAC)*
>>
>> *Anriette Esterhuysen (AFRICA).*
>>
>> These were chosen from a total of twenty-five candidates submitted via
>> our various networks, as well as directly to the Nomcom, in accordance with
>> our Procedures outlined at http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures. In
>> choosing representatives, we were concerned to ensure both gender and
>> geographic balance: but also to combine previous experience and knowledge
>> in this field with the introduction of new articulate voices from the civil
>> society grouping. We were also concerned to ensure that the range of
>> political perspectives which exist within civil society were adequately
>> represented.
>>
>> This was an extremely difficult decision for us, given the range of
>> excellent candidates available. But we believe the selected representatives
>> will each bring a unique but representative perspective to your
>> deliberations.
>>
>> Biographical details for the selected candidates appear below (we will
>> forward email contact details separately). Please do not hesitate to
>> contact us if you require further information, or if there are any concerns
>> about any of these nominations.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ian Peter and Ginger Paque, Co-chairs, CSCG
>>
>> (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. Together the reach of these
>> groups extends to many hundreds of non-governmental organisations, as well
>> as a great number of individuals. )
>>
>>
>>
>> *NOMINEE DETAILS*
>>
>> *RICHARD HILL*
>>
>> Richard Hill is a member of the Just Net Coalition's Steering Committee
>> and the president of the Association for Proper Internet Governance, a
>> non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has an extensive
>> background in information systems, telecommunications, negotiation,
>> mediation, conflict management, and Internet governance. He is a vice-Chair
>> of ISOCCH and of ISOC's newly-created Chapters Advisory Council. Richard
>> was with ITU from 2001 to 2012 and was part of the WSIS secretariat team
>> dealing with Internet governance; he was involved in WGIG, and in various
>> ITU discussions on Internet-related matters. Richard is an accredited
>> mediator, an active domain name arbitrator, and one of the ICANN PICDRP
>> arbitrators. He has published papers on mediation, computer-related
>> intellectual property issues, and Internet governance, and contributes to
>> discussions on various mailing lists. Richard was a commenting observer
>> with the previous WGEC.
>>
>> *LEA KASPAR*
>>
>>
>>
>> Lea Kaspar heads Global Partner Digital's (GPD) programmatic portfolio
>> and leads the organisation’s international policy arm. Since joining GPD in
>> 2012, she has been concentrating upon facilitating multistakeholder
>> dialogue and civil society engagement in international internet governance
>> debates. She has developed and coordinated information sharing, capacity
>> building, and advocacy initiatives at the Global Conference on Cyberspace
>> (GCCS), NETmundial, the WSIS+10 Review process, the 2013-2014 UN CSTD
>> Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC), and various processes of the
>> International Telecommunication Union (ITU). She is a member of the
>> Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), a
>> member of the UK Multistakeholder Group on Internet Governance (MAGIG), and
>> sits on the Steering Committee of the UK IGF. During the 2013-14 WGEC,
>> she participated as an active observer in 4 out of 5 meetings of the Group.
>> Following its establishment, she joined the WGEC Correspondence Group, and
>> played a critical role in developing the mapping output of the Group, which
>> served as the basis for the CSTD mapping report issued in November 2014.
>> Through this engagement, she gained invaluable insight into the dynamics of
>> the enhanced cooperation debate.
>>
>>
>>
>> *PARMINDER SINGH*
>>
>> Parminder is Executive Director of IT for Change, an India based NGO, in
>> Special Consultative Status with UN's Economic and Social Council. This
>> Special Status has been granted to IT for Change for its work at the global
>> level on Information Society issues at the World Summit on the Information
>> Society (WSIS) and thereafter. IT for Change's core mandate is to work at
>> the intersection of new ICTs and progressive social change, from the
>> standpoint of equity and social justice. The interests of marginalized
>> sections, including women, remain IT for Change's key focus. IT for Change
>> is widely acknowledged to be a key actor bringing representation of voices
>> from the South, and those generally of marginalized sections, to global
>> forums on information society and Internet governance. Parminder leads IT
>> for Change's work in the area of governance reform and community
>> informatics, and has been its main representative in IG spaces at the
>> global and national levels. His previous work on the CSTD WGEC continues
>> the institutional memory and concern for global south issues.
>>
>> *CARLOS AFONSO*
>>
>> *Carlos A. Afonso*, Brazilian, is the director of the Instituto NUPEF
>> (Rio de Janeiro), chair of the Brazilian chapter of Internet Society, and a
>> founding member and current board member of CGI.br representing civil
>> society. Together with Herbert de Souza, he founded IBASE and implemented
>> Alternex, the first non-profit Internet services provider in Brazil. In
>> 1990, he participated in the founding of APC, and from 1997-1998 served as
>> APC's first chair. In 1991, he proposed and supervised the Internet project
>> for the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio, 1992) in
>> collaboration with APC. Mr. Afonso is an expert in the field of Internet
>> Governance. He has written books and articles on networking for human
>> development in different languages. He received LACNIC's Trajectory Prize
>> in 2010 and APC' Betinho Award in 2015. Master in Economics, Carlos studied
>> naval engineering and concluded doctoral studies in Social and Political
>> Thought. Mr Afonso was one of the participants in the last WGEC. His
>> presence will help ensure the continuation of previous WGEC work, and help
>> preserve institutional memory of this work, as he assists new members to
>> incorporate their new ideas.
>>
>>
>>
>> *ANRIETTE ESTERHUYSEN*
>>
>> Anriette Esterhuysen is the executive director of the Association for
>> Progressive Communications (APC), an international network of
>> organizations working with Information and Communications Technologies
>> (ICT) to support social justice and development. Prior to joining APC
>> Anriette was executive director of SANGONeT, an internet service provider
>> and training institution for civil society, labour and community
>> organizations in southern Africa. She was active in the struggle against
>> Apartheid and from 1987 to 1992 did information and communication work
>> in development and human rights organizations in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
>> Anriette served on the African Technical Advisory Committee of the UN's
>> Economic Commission for Africa's African Information Society Initiative and
>> was a member of the United Nations ICT Task Force from 2002 to 2005, the
>> World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Task Working Group on
>> Financing Mechanisms, and the Commission for Science and Technology for
>> Development Working Group on Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Improvements.
>> She was a member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group from 2012-14..
>> She was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a global connecter in
>> 2013. Currently Anriette is a member of the Global Commission on Internet
>> Governance. She has published extensively on ICTs for development and
>> social justice.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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