[governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS

Thu Mar 31 08:31:43 EDT 2016

(french version : se mail sent two days ago) 

Thanks Cisse

for this mail which questions us at least for two reasons :

-          CSs representativeness in the WSIS + process (the Fora, IGF, etc) 

-          CS internal exchanges : elective modalities, linguistic diversity (place of French, Spanish, …), programmatic content, etc 

Exactly one month from now on WSIS Forum 2016 will open in Geneva. CS will be present there. It is therefore urgent to determine right now the date, time and place of the CS Plenary which will be in charge of discussions and which will have quite naturally the mandate for deciding priorities and for outlining CS contributions during the different sessions, workshops and other events. I suggest Monday 2nd May evening in an on-site room to be reserved as soon as possible at « WSIS Team » office. Then we should  be able to agree upon our daily plenaries  to take stock of the situation and nominate our representatives and speakers in the next day sessions. 

It’s time to return to a more human functioning, to rewarding exchanges and to contributions that are marking our priorities and that promote our common goals. This is the way by which CS has been able to maintain its relative group cohesion and to be respected. Or even to valuably contribute to the official documents of the Geneva and the Tunis Summits, even if this contribution was rather limited as our own Declarations specified it.

CS must absolutely find itself again and recover the friendliness of human exchanges ! Because never can these be achieved exclusively by electronic ways.

Friendly

Jean-Louis Fullsack  

> Message du 29/03/16 19:24
> De : "cisse.kane at bluewin.ch" 
> A : governance at lists.igcaucus.org, "Ginger Paque" 
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> Objet : Re: [governance] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - WSIS FORUM HIGHLEVELTRACK FACILITATORS
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> 
(FRANçAIS PLUS BAS)
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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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----Message d'origine----
> 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
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>

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  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  wrote:
>

> Timely and right discussion.

On Mar 26, 2016 12:29 AM, "Michael Gurstein"  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
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> 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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