[governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS

[Analia Aspis]

+ 1 Nick

Analía

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at consensus.pro>
wrote:

> Dear all, FWIW, this is as we all know a long-standing problem.
>
> My thought is that a solution might be to ask if those of you with access
> to funders could put together a proposal for a pool to be available every
> year for a handful of key meetings that would allow those without travel
> support to have a chance to attend these meetings. Perhaps ISOC would be a
> contributor to it, or coordinate with it to try and leverage this new
> mechanism to bring more people to the events where ISOC provides travel
> funding for some.
>
> That said, FWIW, the WSIS Forum is not really politically impactful in my
> experience - most Geneva based delegates don’t attend if they can help it,
> for example.
>
>
> On 26 Mar 2016, at 05:14, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I must say that I find this process from the UN (again) completely
> ridiculous however, I think that this one may be material in allowing for
> some possibly useful inputs from participants as "facilitators"
>
> I might for example, be interested in volunteering as a "facilitator" but
> would be immediately (self) excluded because of the requirement that
> participants need to be self-funded. There is no way I could find funding
> for this participation including because the time available is way too
> short to do any useful fundraising and of course NAm folks are
> automatically excluded from any of the more general funding envelopes.
>
> What this type of "invitation" does is to more or less automatically
> exclude everyone from CS who isn't a trustfundarian, a resident of Geneva
> or the environs, or a staff member of a major NGO with sufficient
> discretionary funding.  This of course is highly highly
> discriminatory/exclusionary as we all know and has the effect of
> drastically skewing results of such processes and thus presumably of their
> outcomes as well.
>
> In most cases it doesn't matter as the "opportunity" is of little
> consequence.  In this instance it looks like it may be of more consequence
> and thus does matter.
>
> Could I suggest that the CSCG lodge an appropriate protest in this regard.
>
> M
>
>
> *From:* governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org[
> mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
> <governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org>] *On Behalf Of *Ian Peter
> *Sent:* March 24, 2016 1:08 PM
> *To:* Analia Aspis <analia.aspis at gmail.com>; governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> *Subject:* Re: [governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM
> HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS
>
> attached the document Analia is referring to below.
>
> *From:* Analia Aspis <analia.aspis at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 25, 2016 1:13 AM
> *To:* mailto:governance at lists.igcaucus.org <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
> *Subject:* [governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK
> FACILITATORS
>
>
> Dear members,
>
> The WSIS Forum will take place in Geneva from May 2-6 this year. The Civil
> Society Co-ordination Group (CSCG) has been asked to forward four names of
> civil society representatives to be High Level Track Facilitators (joining
> facilitators from other stakeholder groups).
>
> The attached document gives details of what is required. Please note:
>
>  High Level Track Facilitators are expected to cover their own fares and
> accommodation expenses:
>
>  The main task of each facilitator is to moderate a high level policy
> session and provide a written executive summary based on interventions and
> discussion during the session, while capturing the vision, identifying
> emerging trends, opportunities and challenges shared by the high level
> speakers.
>
>  Successful candidates must be able to demonstrate previous experience in
> this area, combined with a good general knowledge of WSIS issues.
>
>  *Nominations or self-nominations should be sent DIRECTLY to *
> nomcom07 at internetgov-cs.org no later than midnight UTC on Wednesday,
> April 6.
>
>
>
> The nominations should include basic biographical information, plus a
> brief statement outlining relevant experience in similar moderation/
> facilitation exercises.
> Best,
> Analía
> IGC co-coordinator
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