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Hi Robin<br>
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Thanks for this. To whom should nominations be submitted?
Yourself? And can one self-nominate?<br>
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Matthew<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/24/2016 11:07 PM, Robin Gross
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*** Note the March 15 hard deadline for nominations. ***<br
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<br class="">
Dear all<br class="">
<br class="">
As many of you are aware, the outcome document of the 2005 World<br
class="">
Summit on the Information Society in Tunis [1, para 69] contains a<br
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call for "enhanced cooperation in the future, to enable
governments,<br class="">
on an equal footing, to carry out their roles and
responsibilities,<br class="">
in international public policy issues pertaining to the Internet,<br
class="">
but not in the day-to-day technical and operational matters, that
do<br class="">
not impact on international public policy issues."<br class="">
[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html"
class="">http://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html</a><br
class="">
<br class="">
So far there has been little to no agreement on how this should be<br
class="">
implemented.<br class="">
<br class="">
Now the UN General Assembly has asked the Chair of the Commission
on<br class="">
Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) to "establish a<br
class="">
working group to develop recommendations on how to further
implement<br class="">
enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda." This will<br
class="">
continue work done by an earlier CSTD Working Group on Enhanced<br
class="">
Cooperation, that was active from 2013-2014.<br class="">
<br class="">
There will be five Civil Society representatives on this Working<br
class="">
Group, one from each UN region. These civil society
representatives<br class="">
will be selected by the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG),
see<br class="">
below for further information. I'm sure that before long CSCG will<br
class="">
publish an official announcement detailing selection criteria, but<br
class="">
since time is short, here is the information which is available<br
class="">
already:<br class="">
<br class="">
The Civil Society Coordination Group requests that Civil Society<br
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communities and individuals submit names of candidates from<br
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developed and developing countries as well as from economies in<br
class="">
transition, all geographic areas, and policy orientations to serve<br
class="">
as Civil Society representatives on the CSTD Working Group on<br
class="">
Enhanced Cooperation, the announcement for which can be found at<br
class="">
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193"
class="">http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193</a>.<br
class="">
More information about the WG proposal can be found at<br class="">
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://unctad.org/meetings/en/Presentation/CSTD_2015_s11_Major_en.pdf"
class="">http://unctad.org/meetings/en/Presentation/CSTD_2015_s11_Major_en.pdf</a> .<br
class="">
While the exact timeframe for the working group has not been<br
class="">
established, nominees are asked to consider a service period of<br
class="">
2016-2017 (and eventually the beginning of 2018).<br class="">
<br class="">
Shortlists should be submitted to the CSCG’s nominations committee<br
class="">
(nomcom) via the email address nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot]
org<br class="">
no later than 15 March 2016. Independent Civil Society experts
(i.e.<br class="">
those who are not nominated by a civil society network or other<br
class="">
community) are welcome to send self-nominations directly to the
CSCG<br class="">
nomcom by the same deadline. <br class="">
<br class="">
Nominations should include a short bio of one paragraph, one<br
class="">
paragraph of motivation to be a civil society representative to
the<br class="">
WG, one paragraph describing substantive proposals or a vision on<br
class="">
"how to further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in
the<br class="">
Tunis Agenda", and one paragraph describing experience or<br
class="">
qualifications to represent civil society on the WG. Name, gender,<br
class="">
regional/geographical, as well as any appropriate affiliation<br
class="">
information and contact information should be included as well.<br
class="">
<br class="">
Proficiency in English is necessary for communications within the<br
class="">
Working Group.<br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
About CSCG and the current nomcom:<br class="">
<br class="">
The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) has been established
to<br class="">
ensure a coordinated civil society response and conduit when it
comes<br class="">
to making civil society appointments to outside bodies. It
comprises<br class="">
representatives of the coalition members of the Best Bits,<br
class="">
Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Internet
Governance<br class="">
Caucus (IGC), Just Net Coalition (JNC), and the Non-Commercial<br
class="">
Stakeholders Group of ICANN. <br class="">
<br class="">
As per the CSCG's procedures [2], for any selection task, the CSCG<br
class="">
will determine selection criteria and announce them as part of a
call<br class="">
for candidates, which is then circulated as broadly as possible<br
class="">
across many different constituencies. All members of the CSCG<br
class="">
nomination committee are required to consider the interests of
civil<br class="">
society as a whole, and not just their own coalition, in
determining<br class="">
appropriate representatives. The nomination committee will take
into<br class="">
account geographic and gender balance in determining their final<br
class="">
selections, while considering also the need for the breadth of<br
class="">
viewpoints/worldviews represented within civil society to be<br
class="">
represented.<br class="">
[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures" class="">http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures</a><br
class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
Peter Major, the Chair of the CSCG, has appointed CSCG as the
"focal<br class="">
point" for appointments of Civil Society representatives on this<br
class="">
Working Group, and CSCG has correspondingly established a nomcom
for<br class="">
this selection task.<br class="">
<br class="">
Please feel free to contact us if you need further information or
to<br class="">
discuss how we can work together to ensure our mutual objective to<br
class="">
ensure the best possible civil society representation on this<br
class="">
Working Group. Members of the civil society networks which are<br
class="">
directly represented on the nomcom are requested to address such<br
class="">
communications to the representative of the corresponding network,<br
class="">
while the co-chairs of CSCG, Ginger Paque and Ian Peter, are<br
class="">
available for inquiries from others. <br class="">
<br class="">
The members of the CSCG nomcom for the CSTD WG on Enhanced<br
class="">
Cooperation are:<br class="">
<br class="">
Deirdre Williams, representative of the Civil Society Internet<br
class="">
Governance Caucus (IGC), and recent Co-Coordinator of the IGC<br
class="">
<br class="">
Chat Garcia Ramilo, representative of the Association for<br
class="">
Progressive Communications (APC), and Deputy Executive Director of
APC<br class="">
<br class="">
Ginger (Virginia) Paque, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, and with
Diplo<br class="">
Foundation, Internet Governance Programmes<br class="">
(contact: virginiap at diplomacy dot edu)<br class="">
<br class="">
Ian Peter, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, independent<br class="">
(contact: ian dot peter at ianpeter dot com)<br class="">
<br class="">
Nadira Alaraj, representative of Best Bits<br class="">
<br class="">
Norbert Bollow, representative of the Just Net Coalition (JNC),
and<br class="">
Co-Convenor of JNC<br class="">
<br class="">
Robin Gross, representative of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders
Group<br class="">
(NCSG), and member of the NCSG Executive Committee
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