[okfn-br] Fwd: Call for nominations, planning committees for IG meeting in Brazil April 23 and 24

[Alexandre Hannud Abdo]

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encontro de Governança da Internet...

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Call for nominations, planning committees for IG meeting in
Brazil April 23 and 24
Date: 	Mon, 23 Dec 2013 06:45:08 -0600
From: 	Virginia Paque <virginiap em diplomacy.edu>
Reply-To: 	virginiap em diplomacy.edu
To: 	igcbp em diplomacy.edu



This is a call for nominations to represent civil society on planning
committees in preparations for the “Global Multistakeholder Meeting on
Internet Governance”, to be held in Sao Paulo Brazil on April 23 and 24
2014. It is important that CS take an active role in planning for this
meeting. We need informed, energetic people who will report back to us,
and help us understand the process, as well as give substantial input to
the planning process.



*• Committee No. 1:  Multistakeholder High­Level Committee (HLC)*



This committee will set the high ­level political tone and objectives of
the conference.  Committee members will engage on a global level with
stakeholders to encourage participation in the conference and maximize
its chances of success.



This committee will include 4 civil society representatives.



• *Committee No. 3:  Multistakeholder Executive Committee (EC)*



This committee owns the full responsibility of organizing the event,
including: defining

conference purpose/agenda, managing invitations, organizing input
received into a coherent set of proposals for the conferees to address,
managing conference proceedings and process, and directing all
communications activities pre/­during/­post conference. This committee
will include 2 civil society representatives



The deadline for submitting expressions of interest is *midnight
UTC* 6* January 2014*.



If you are interested, you are invited to send a brief biography and a
statement of relevant background and experience to
virginiap em diplomacy.edu <mailto:virginiap em diplomacy.edu> (Ginger) or by
posting to this thread at www.diplointernetgovernance.org
<http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org>. At the closing date for
nominations, those submitted to various civil society networks will be
compiled and assessed by the Civil Society Co ordination Group.



Please indicate clearly at the beginning of your application whether it
is for the High Level Committee (HLC) or Executive Committee (EC) or both.





CRITERIA



The following factors (among others) will be used to assess the
suitability of candidates



1.      Able to represent civil society as a whole, not just your
individual civil society organisation(s)

2.      Able to work collegiately with other stakeholder groups in a
multistakeholder setting

3.      Able to consult widely with civil society groups and to report
back as the process progresses

4.      Ability to represent civil society at a senior level in these
discussions

5.      Broad knowledge of internet governance issues and the range of
civil society perspectives on these issues

6.      Capacity to participate assertively and creatively

7.      Includes perspectives/representation of groups typically
under-represented in global IG processes



*Explanation of process*

The civil society coordinating group is a loose peak body that came
together this year to facilitate joint civil society participation in
several nominating processes.  It currently comprises persons from the
most active civil society coalitions or networks in the Internet
governance space, which in no particular order are the Internet
Governance Caucus, Diplo Foundation, Best Bits, the Non Commercial
Stakeholder Group of ICANN, and the Association for Progressive
Communications.  The current liaisons are Virginia Paque (Ginger),
Jeremy Malcolm, Robin Gross and Chat Garcia Ramilo, with Ian Peter as an
independent facilitator.  Its current composition is imperfect - the
boundary between an organisation and network is grey, and so is the
scope of "Internet governance".  In particular, we are reaching out to
other civil society networks to further broaden the inclusiveness of the
group and have developed a draft set of criteria to assist in this process.

Likewise, the process for gathering and reaching consensus is also a
work in progress, but progressive improvements to the process have been
put in place since the group's first nomination.  These improvements
include refinement of criteria for each member network to consider when
putting forward names for consideration.  Other suggested changes to the
process, such as the use of a randomly-selected nominating committee,
have not met with consensual support from within the group and so have
not been adopted for this nomination.  However, the coordinating group
welcomes other suggestions for improvement of the joint process.

Think about it! This is an important challenge and opportunity. If you
have any questions, please post them to www.diplointernetgovernance.org
<http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org>, or email me.

Best wishes for the holidays,

Ginger

Ginger (Virginia) Paque
IG Programmes, DiploFoundation

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