<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class="">The official call for nominations is open! </b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class="">I hope many of you will consider applying for this opportunity to represent civil society on the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC). We need one representative from each UN geographic region on this working group. Deadline to apply is 15 March 2016 - details below. Thanks!</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class="">Best,</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><b class="">Robin</b></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Call for nominations for CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Civil Society Coordination Groups (CSCG) is seeking civil society nominations from developed and developing countries as well as from economies in transition, all geographic areas, and policy orientations to serve as civil society representatives on the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC), the announcement for which can be found at </span><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">. More information about the WG proposal can be found at </span><a href="http://unctad.org/meetings/en/Presentation/CSTD_2015_s11_Major_en.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://unctad.org/meetings/en/Presentation/CSTD_2015_s11_Major_en.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> .</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> While the exact timeframe for the working group has not been established, nominees are asked to consider a service period of 2016-2017 (and eventually the beginning of 2018).</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Peter Major, the Chair of the CSTD, has appointed CSCG as the focal point for appointments of Civil Society representatives on the WGEC, and CSCG has correspondingly established a nominations committee (Nomcom) for this selection task. We are seeking one CS representative from each of the five geographical areas: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, GRULAC, and WEOG. The Chair has requested that we include, to the extent possible, selection of former members of the previous working group in order to ensure the continuation of institutional memory, and the point in the UNGA resolution to “take into consideration the work that has been done on this matter so far.” While remote participation will most probably be available, he also notes that remote participation “may not be very efficient in case of intensive debates and drafting”. In addition, he notes that</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> “As for funding, the Secretariat of the CSTD will try and find means to facilitate participation from developing countries”.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Nominations should be submitted to the CSCG’s nominations committee via the email address </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot] org</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> no later than 15 March 2016, or via one of the member coalitions (IGC, Best Bits, JNC, NCSG, APC) following their procedures. Independent civil society experts (i.e. those who are not nominated by a civil society organisation or network) are welcome to send self-nominations directly to the CSCG nomcom by the same deadline. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Nominations should include a short bio of one paragraph, one paragraph of motivation to be a civil society representative to the WGEC, one paragraph describing substantive proposals or a vision on “how to further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”, and one paragraph describing experience or qualifications to represent civil society on the WGEC. Name, gender, regional/geographical, as well as any appropriate affiliation information and contact information should be included as well. Proficiency in English is necessary for communications within the WGEC. It is understood that nominees must be able to attend (most) meetings as established by the WGEC.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">About CSCG and the current NomCom:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">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. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">As per the CSCG's procedures (available at </span><a href="http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">), for any selection task, the CSCG will determine selection criteria and announce them as part of a call for candidates, which will then be circulated as appropriate, in this case as broadly as possible across as many different constituencies as possible. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Selection criteria for WGEC: </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">--substantive proposals or a vision on “how to further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">; </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">--experience in </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">or qualifications to represent civil society on the WG</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">; </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">--English language proficiency;</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> all to be evaluated using the information submitted with the nomination. Final selection will consider gender and geographical location, to ensure an appropriate balance.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">All members of the CSCG nomination</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> committee a</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">re required to consider the interests of civil society as a whole, and not just those of their own coalition, in determining appropriate representatives. The nomination committee will take into account geographic and gender balance in determining their final selections, while considering also the need for the breadth of viewpoints/worldviews represented within civil society to be represented.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Please feel free to contact us if you need further information or to discuss how we can work together to ensure our mutual objective to ensure the best possible civil society representation on this Working Group. The co-chairs of CSCG, Ginger Paque and Ian Peter, are available for inquiries.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The members of the CSCG nomcom for the CSTD WGEC are:</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Deirdre Williams, representative of the Civil Society Internet Governance</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Caucus (IGC), and recent Co-Coordinator of the IGC</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Chat Garcia Ramilo, representative of the Association for Progressive</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Communications (APC), and Deputy Executive Director of APC</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ginger (Virginia) Paque, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, and with Diplo</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Foundation, Internet Governance Programmes (contact: virginiap [at] diplomacy [dot] edu)</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ian Peter, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, independent (contact: ian [dot] peter [at] ianpeter [dot com)</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Nadira Alaraj, representative of Best Bits</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Norbert Bollow, representative of the Just Net Coalition (JNC), and</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Co-Convenor of JNC</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Robin Gross, representative of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">ICANN’s </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">(NCSG), and member of the NCSG Executive Committee</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 4pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Information on the Previous WGEC</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Previous representatives from civil society </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Mr. Carlos A. Afonso, Executive Director, NUPEF Institute </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ms. Avri Doria, Independent Researcher </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ms. Grace Githaiga, Associate, Kenya ICT Action Network </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Ms. Joy Liddicoat, Programme Leader for Human Rights on the Internet, Association for Progressive Communications </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Mr. Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Documents produced during or following previous WGEC meetings can be found on the CSTD website. Of particular interest:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=330" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=330</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=396" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=396</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=425" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=425</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=545" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=545</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=610" style="text-decoration: none;" class="">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=610</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class="">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 27, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Robin Gross <<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" class="">robin@ipjustice.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks for the interest, Matt! <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nominations should be submitted to the CSCG’s nominations committee via the email address <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot] org</span> no later than 15 March 2016. I will post more detail here to this NCSG list in a couple days about what specifically should be included in an application for consideration, as CSCG is finalizing that notice at this time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again!</div><div class="">Robin<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 25, 2016, at 3:28 AM, Matthew Shears <<a href="mailto:mshears@cdt.org" class="">mshears@CDT.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Hi Robin<br class="">
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Thanks for this. To whom should nominations be submitted?
Yourself? And can one self-nominate?<br class="">
<br class="">
Matthew<br class="">
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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 class="">
<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 class="">
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 class="">
communities and individuals submit names of candidates from<br class="">
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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Center for Democracy & Technology | <a href="http://cdt.org/" class="">cdt.org</a>
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