[governance] CSCG Futures - WAS Re: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS

Wed Mar 30 01:15:47 EDT 2016

 blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important;  padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; }  Agree with Ian and thanks Cisse pour bringing this up. And Ginger has shed some lights and opened up for more discussion.
I personally commend and appreciate the coordination role the CSCG is playing within the CS. Any initiative aiming at supporting their work is timely.
I will be glad to join the working group at the time it will be set up. Meanwhile, i encourage people to show interest in jumping in, taking some responsability as Ginger called for. And look into the option of your employer to allow you to (for an official/professional involvement).
Regards,Arsene, IGC Co-coordinator

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On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 11:56 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

Dear Cisse, I just wanted to touch base re your concerns with CSCG. As you will have seen, Ginger has resigned from CSCG for personal/family reasons – and that leaves a difficult gap to fill, and we do need fresh energy. I think many of us realise CSCG has to change and adapt, but getting agreement on the best way to do this may not be easy. My own thoughts currently would be to set up a working group to discuss this, and the various options available to us. I would urge you to get involved and bring your perspectives to that discussion. It may be a few weeks before we can devote much energy to this, as we have 2 Nomcoms under way currently. In the mean time, discussion here is more than welcome and I would welcome anyone taking the initiative to move this further.  Ian Peter From: cisse.kane at bluewin.ch Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 5:30 AMTo: governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; Ginger Paque Cc: gurstein at gmail.com ; ian.peter at ianpeter.com ; cs-coord at internetgov-cs.org ; compsoftnet at gmail.com ; governance at lists.igcaucus.org Subject: Re: Re: [governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS 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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