<p dir="ltr">Thank you and the email address I am counfused with<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 Mar 2016 23:33, "Robin Gross" <<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org">robin@ipjustice.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I believe it will be held in Geneva and/or NYC at the United Nations.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Robin<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 14, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Hena Gul <<a href="mailto:hinagul.sawera@gmail.com" target="_blank">hinagul.sawera@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#0000ff">Hello</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#0000ff">Where it will be held? Thank you</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#0000ff"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="font-weight:bold">Hena Gul</font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 March 2016 at 22:47, Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px">All:</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px">Reminder:  I hope NCSG members will consider applying for this (below) Un Working Group.  Civil Society needs 1 representative from each geographic region.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><u><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px"><br></span></u></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14px"><u><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nominations should be submitted to the CSCG’s nominations committee via the email address </span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot] org</span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u> no later than 15 March 2016.</u>  See details below.  Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.  (BTW:  NCSG is not running a separate nominations process for this).</span></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px">Thank you,</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:14px">Robin</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">________________</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for nominations for CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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">. 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" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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"> .</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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"> “As for funding, the Secretariat of the  CSTD will try and find means to facilitate participation from developing countries”.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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">nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot] org</span></u></b><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><u> no later than 15 March 2016</u></b>, 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><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About CSCG and the current nomcom:</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As per the CSCG's procedures (available at </span><a href="http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures</span></a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), 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><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Selection criteria for WGEC:  </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--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">; </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--experience in </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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">; </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--English language proficiency;</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All members of the CSCG nomination</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> committee a</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The members of the CSCG nomcom for the CSTD WGEC are:</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Caucus (IGC), and recent Co-Coordinator of the IGC</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Communications (APC), and Deputy Executive Director of APC</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Foundation, Internet Governance Programmes (contact: virginiap [at] diplomacy [dot] edu)</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ian Peter, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, independent (contact: ian [dot] peter [at] ianpeter [dot com)</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nadira Alaraj, representative of Best Bits</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-Convenor of JNC</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Robin Gross, representative of </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ICANN’s </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(NCSG), and member of the NCSG Executive Committee</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:4pt"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Information on the Previous WGEC</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Previous representatives from civil society  </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mr. Carlos A. Afonso, Executive Director, NUPEF Institute  </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ms. Avri Doria, Independent Researcher  </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ms. Grace Githaiga, Associate, Kenya ICT Action Network  </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mr. Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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"><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=330" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=330</span></a></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=396" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=396</span></a></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=425" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=425</span></a></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=545" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=545</span></a></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?meetingid=610" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://unctad.org/en/pages/MeetingDetails.aspx?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