[governance] Fwd: [Nomcom06] Fw: Civil Society Nominations for WGEC - selections from Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG)

Thu Mar 31 16:36:19 EDT 2016

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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*Marília Maciel*
Pesquisadora Gestora - Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - FGV Direito Rio
Researcher and Coordinator - Center for Technology & Society - FGV Law
School
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