[governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS

cisse.kane at bluewin.ch cisse.kane at bluewin.ch
Tue Mar 29 14:30:04 EDT 2016 

Many thanks Ginger for these explanations !
Cisse
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De : gpaque at gmail.com
Date : 29/03/2016 - 19:59 (GMT)
À : cisse.kane at bluewin.ch, cs-coord at internetgov-cs.org
Cc : governance at lists.igcaucus.org, compsoftnet at gmail.com, ian.peter at ianpeter.com, gurstein at gmail.com
Objet : Re: [governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS
Hello, Cisse and all,
Thanks for your engagement and interest Cisse. Five organisations currently have representatives on the CSCG, Best Bits (Nadira), JNC (Norbert), IGC (Analia), NCSG (Robin Gross) and APC (Chat Garcia). Each of these representatives carry the CSCG discussions into their named group discussions. It is true that much of Civil Socity is outside of these groups, and must be included peripherally for the moment, and we are reviewing membership and procedures as possible, but have been very busy with just NomComs so far this year. So, the discussions here on the IGC group are the IGC discussing the work of the CSCG. They are not CSCG-wide, they are IGC. Similar discussions should be taking place on the other lists, and their summaries brought into the CSCG work by their representatives.
Language is a definite concern, but without any funding, and with all CSCG members working as volunteers, we count on our readers to use Babel, GoogleTranslate or another app to translate into their own working languages. We simply don't have the bandwidth for translations, but are open to any offers for volunteers to work on this. We do have an IGC volunteer working just starting to discuss the possibility of working on the CSCG webpage, to make it more informative and more updated. Again, with absolutely no funding, and our small group stretched to the limit, it is an important, but slow process.
Enlarging the group, rotating members, and rotating NomComs are high on the list of CSCG priorities.
Choice of representatives for speaking at global meetings are handled on an ad hoc basis, and CS groups work together, when possible with the CSCG, to choose speakers that represent CS.
Your request to have ACSIS considered as a new member of the CSCG has been noted, but has not yet been considered.
Some of you may know that I have resigned as independent co-chair of the CSCG (for personal/family reasons), and that complicates procedures as the CSCG decides how to move ahead on this circumstance as well. I am continuing until a solution is found, at least as a collaborating observer.
I encourage everyone to be involved in the work of the CSCG on their respective lists (IGC/BB/JNC/NCSG/APC) and through their representatives. This is an important function of CS, and is worth the investment of time and energy in support of better CS representation.
Best wishes to all,
Ginger
Ginger (Virginia) Paque
DiploFoundation
DiploFoundation upcoming online courses: http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses
On 29 March 2016 at 12:23, cisse.kane at bluewin.ch <cisse.kane at bluewin.ch> wrote:
(FRANçAIS PLUS BAS)
Dear Ginger
and all
First I wanted to thank and congratulate CSCG leading team for the efforts in
coordinating Civil Society activities. 
I see also a common will to improve things. I call you upon to have an open
discussion on the list about these possible improvements.
Apart from financing Civil Society engagement in important foras I propose that
you open a phase were people can make proposals on the followings
- Representativity of the IGC list: If I am not mistaken we are exchanging now
on IGC list. Is this list representing overall Civil Society ? I see that there
are other Civil Society platforms. Are they all included in this IGC list ? If
not, can we imagine a plaform where all relevant lists are représented so that
we can share information at the same level. I remember that the question was raised somehow during CSTD nomination process
- language : all these debate are only in english. Can we move to a more
multilingual system in order to be more inclusive ?
- Nomination process to be standardized
- Who should talk on behalf of Civil Society during important gathering and
what would be the format ?
As far as ACSIS is concerned, one of my first actions as new ACSIS chair was to
request to Ian (6 months ago) an then to you a better involvement of African
Civil Society. ACSIS wishes to be considered as the Civil Society Platform représenting
Africa as geographical entity and actively participate. In this regard, we are
ready to assit with website and work on CSCG initiatives as requested by
Ginger.
With my best regards
Cisse Kane
ACSIS Chair
Cher Ginger et tous
Je voudrais tout d'abord remercier et féliciter l'équipe de la CSCG pour ses
efforts louables dans la coordination des activités de la Société Civile.
Je note aussi qu'il y a une volonté générale d'en améliorer le fonctionnement.
Je vous invite donc à ce à ouvrir une discussion sur les améliorations
possibles.
Mis à part le financement de la participation de la Société Civile dans les
foras importants, je propose que vous ouvriez une période de discussion où il y
aura des propositions sur les améliorations possibles. Parmi les points qui
pourraient être soumis à discussion il y a :
- La représentativité de la liste IGC par rapport à la CSCG : sauf erreur de ma
part, nous échangeons présentement uniquement sur la liste IGC. Est-ce que
cette liste est représentative de toute la CSCG ? Apparemment il y a plusieurs
plateformes. Sont-elles toutes représentées dans la liste IGC ? Si la réponse
est négative, peut-on imaginer une plateforme où toutes les lists importantes
sont représentées pour que tout le monde soit au même niveau d'information? Je
me souviens qu'il y a eu un débat sur cette question lors du lancement des
nominations pour la CSTD. 
- la question linguistique : tous les débats sur cette list sont (presque
exclusivement) en anglais. Y a-t-il un moyen de d'aller vers un minimum de
multilinguisme dans nos échanges pour favoriser l'inclusion ?
- la standardisation des processus de nomination
- qui doit parler au nom de la Société Civil et selon quel format ?
Concernant ACSIS, l'une des premières actions que j'ai entreprises en tant que
responsable de cette structure est d'écrire à Ian puis à Ginger pour solliciter
une plus grande implication de la Société Civile Africaine. ACSIS souhaite être
considérée comme une des plateformes de la Société Civile qui représente l'Afrique
en tant qu'entité géographique et participer activement. Dans cette
perspective, nous sommes prêts à assister la CSCG concernant le site Internet
et aussi par rapport aux initiatives de la CSCG selon la demande de Ginger. 
Avec mes meilleures salutations.
Cissé Kane
Président ACSIS
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De : gpaque at gmail.com
Date : 29/03/2016 - 15:29 (GMT)
À : governance at lists.igcaucus.org, compsoftnet at gmail.com
Cc : gurstein at gmail.com, ian.peter at ianpeter.com
Objet : Re: [governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS
Hello again,
When I mention 'Are there people whose organisations might assist with website, or paid time to work on CSCG initiatives?' I am suggesting that you might ask your employer/university/organisation to allow you to work on CSCG initiatives during normal working hours, so you can get paid for some of the work you do. Some organisations allow, for example 10-20% of an employee's time to be spent on initiatives like this. Ask! You never know, they might say yes. :)
Cheers,
Ginger
Ginger (Virginia) Paque
DiploFoundation
DiploFoundation upcoming online courses: http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses
On 28 March 2016 at 06:32, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:
I strongly support Ian's points. Now we need to widen the discussion and to add specific suggestions and steps for change. 
Are there people whose organisations might assist with website, or paid time to work on CSCG initiatives? Think about it. This is close to home--we are working to get our representatives placed and heard -- we must invest in the process to select them. If you have ideas or offers, you can post here, or privately to me or Ian.
Thanks!
Happy (spring/fall) renewal!
Ginger
Ginger (Virginia) Paque
DiploFoundation
DiploFoundation upcoming online courses: http://www.diplomacy.edu/courses
On 28 March 2016 at 04:30, Akinremi Peter Taiwo <compsoftnet at gmail.com> wrote:
Timely and right discussion.
On Mar 26, 2016 12:29 AM, "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] 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 
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 1:13 AM
To: mailto: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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