[NCSG-EC] Fwd: Request: Your view on reviving CSCG for UN High Level Advisory Body on AI

[Johan Helsingius]

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Subject: 	Request: Your view on reviving CSCG for UN High Level Advisory 
Body on AI
Date: 	Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:15:13 +0100
From: 	Sheetal Kumar <sheetal at gp-digital.org>
To: 	parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>, Richard Hill 
<rhill at hill-a.ch>, Johan Helsingius <julf at julf.com>
CC: 	Bruna Martins dos Santos <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>, valeria 
Betancourt <Valeriab at apc.org>



Dear Richard, Parminder, Johan,

We hope you are well.

Bruna and I, along with Valeria (as representatives of the IGC and APC 
respectively) are getting in touch with regards to the recent call by 
the UN for experts to serve on the global multistakeholder Advisory Body 
on Artificial Intelligence. The deadline is August 31. More information 
is here: https://www.un.org/techenvoy/content/artificial-intelligence
<https://www.un.org/techenvoy/content/artificial-intelligence>
While we know the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) has been 
inactive since the MAG 2021 elections, and is not participating in the 
current nominations for the MAG, we would be interested to hear whether 
you believe that r/eviving the CSCG for the purposes of providing civil 
society nominations to the Advisory Body on AI /would be of interest to 
you/your constituencies. If so, we would propose an alternative process 
to that we have normally used in order to ensure we can collect and 
submit nominations within the timeframe. For example, we would suggest 
that each constituency run its own selection process and submit (up to) 
two names, and the CSCG then submit all those names (up to eight, should 
all four constituencies participate). We think this particular process, 
considering the importance of the topic area (the current 'race' to 
regulate AI and develop standards), combined with the possible role of 
the UN as a multilateral institution in such debates, the lack of 
clarity around the mandate of the body and its eventual make-up, 
particularly necessitates engagement from civil society at this early 
stage. It is for these reasons we recommend utilising the CSCG for this 
purpose.

We also wanted to let you know that we will be putting together a letter 
to the SG's office expressing concern about the lack of information on 
the process, the body itself, and the short timeframe for nominations.

To go ahead, we would request that you let us know whether your 
constituencies would engage in a nomination process /*this week* /- so 
that we can issue calls next week, allowing for c. two weeks to collect 
nominations/run nomination processes.

We look forward to hearing what you think!

Best wishes

Sheetal, Bruna and Valeria.
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