[NCUC-DISCUSS] [bestbits] Fw: Civil Society MAG 2016 endorsements and recommendations

Tue Feb 2 07:10:29 CET 2016

Good luck, Renata and everyone else shorlisted for the Secretariat consideration!

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Arsène Tungali,
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Founder & Director, Mabingwa Forum
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Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
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2015 Mandela Washington Fellow | ICANN Fellow | ISOC IGF Ambassador | Activist & Youth Leader

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> On Feb 2, 2016, at 6:10 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am very grateful to be on this shortlist, it is also a great call
> for responsibility and engagement to the regions and sectors I
> represent.
> As it has been through all this process, all candidates are simply
> great and the activity of the NomCom could not have been more
> transparent and efficient.
> Whichever roads this leads us, I'm sure it will be on the right path
> to more and more representation of CS in global debates.
> 
> All the best
> 
> Renata
> 
> 
> (Apologies for cross-posting)
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Best Bits members,
>> 
>> I'm pleased to pass to you below the nominations and recommendations of the
>> CSCG nominating committee with regards to the civil society representation
>> on MAG 2016.
>> 
>> The CSCG Nomcom is co-chaired by Ginger (Virginia) Paque and Ian Peter,
>> and the team composed of
>> Nadira Alaraj (Best Bits),
>> Analia Aspis (Internet Governance Caucus),
>> Robin Gross (Non Commercial Stakeholders Group, ICANN),
>> Chat Garcia Ramilo (Association for Progressive Communications), and
>> Parminder Jeet Singh (Just Net Coalition).
>> 
>> Hoping the CSCG nomcom recommendations would be considered for the
>> enhancement of selection for the civil society representations on MAG.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> Nadira Alaraj
>> 
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com>
>> Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:14 AM
>> Subject: [cs-coord] Fw: Civil Society MAG 2016 endorsements and
>> recommendations
>> To: CSCG NomCom for 2016 MAG appointments <nomcom05 at internetgov-cs.org>,
>> cs-coord at internetgov-cs.org
>> 
>> 
>> (text below is also attached in document form)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Chengetai, IGF Secretariat, and MAG selection committee(s),
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> First, we wish to thank you for your past co-operation with us in aiming to
>> ensure the best possible representation for civil society in the IGF
>> Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG). We were pleased that you were able to
>> accept all but one of our suggested nominations last year, and also our
>> suggestions for speakers at IGF. We look forward to further strengthening
>> this collaboration, in line with various recommendations calling for greater
>> legitimacy, transparency and stakeholder involvement in such processes
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) exists solely to ensure a
>> co-ordinated 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 the
>> Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group of ICANN. Together the reach of these
>> groups extends to many hundreds of non-governmental organisations, as well
>> as a great number of individuals. In addition, the CSCG receives
>> recommendations of non-affiliated individuals and groups who chose to voice
>> their endorsements through the CSCG mechanism. The CSCG represents the five
>> largest groupings of civil society organisations addressing Internet
>> governance issues. We also work in collaboration with other initiatives in
>> the UN, but also outside of it (such as the Netmundial Conference in Brazil
>> in 2014 and the subsequent Netmundial Initiative).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We are pleased to forward the following civil society endorsements for
>> candidates for the 2016 MAG renewal.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The Nomcom considered 16 names submitted via our networks, which are
>> attached as Appendix 1. For the record, we also asked to be privy to any
>> other civil society nominations forwarded to you from other sources, and,
>> for full transparency, all civil society stakeholder group applications,
>> which we ideally should have considered fully and without discrimination,
>> but we were told this was not possible.  However if there are other names
>> you are considering, we offer our services to give you confidential
>> assessment of any such candidates.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In completing our task, we note that three candidates designated by you as
>> civil society representatives have terms ending this year; two from LAC
>> region and one from Asia. (Fatima Cambronero, Desiree Zachariah, and Subi
>> Chaturvedi)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In considering replacements, we have looked at a number of considerations,
>> the most important of which at this particular time, are:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> First, to restore the balance of LAC region representation, to replace
>> retiring civil society members, we recommend:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Julian Casasbuenas. Julian is a member of the Association for Progressive
>> Communications (APC), and has been attending IGF since 2006.  He was
>> involved in the organization of LAC regional IGF meetings and participated
>> actively as a reporter and speaker in these events. In 2012 his
>> organization, Colnodo, was co-organizer with .CO Internet of the Fifth IGF
>> LAC meeting that was held in Bogotá Colombia.
>> 
>> Renata Aquino Ribeiro. Renata is currently a professor in the IT Campus at
>> Quixadá City in Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. In 2014, she was a
>> researcher in social development, technology and education at Business and
>> Economics Faculty (FEAAC) at Federal University of Ceará (UFC). For the last
>> decade, she has followed the Internet governance debates such as regional
>> IGFs and ICANN53 participation as a fellow, Brazilian Internet School of
>> Governance 2014 fellow, South School of Internet Governance 2015 fellow,
>> LACRALO ALS Nexti participant, and NCUC participant in ICANN.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Our second and third major considerations are to increase voices speaking
>> for the geo-political global south, and to add to the level of experience in
>> internet governance matters of civil society participation. We believe this
>> can be done with one specific candidate. i.e.:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 3. Norbert Bollow. Norbert has a background in mathematics, physics and IT,
>> and he also has many years of experience in civil society activism on a wide
>> range of information society topics including advocacy for human rights and
>> Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). He has participated in the
>> consultations that preceded the first IGF and he has since then participated
>> in many IGFs, including several times as a workshop organizer. He has been a
>> co-coordinator of Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus. Norbert is
>> currently a co-convenor of the Just Net Coalition
>> http://justnetcoalition.org/jnc-members, an international civil society
>> coalition of 35 organisations and networks, most of them South based, with a
>> focus on demands that the Internet must advance human rights and social
>> justice, and that Internet governance must be truly democratic.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Our fourth consideration is to gain representation from the MENA region,
>> which currently has no civil society representation; and at the same time to
>> strengthen our African presence. To this end we endorse:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 4. Rasha Abdulla.  Dr. Rasha A. Abdulla is Associate Professor (tenured) and
>> Past Chair of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University
>> in Cairo. She has a Ph.D. in Communication (December 2003) from the
>> University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. She is the proud recipient of
>> several teaching and research awards. Her current research interests focus
>> on the Internet as a medium. Her doctoral dissertation was the first large
>> scale academic study of the uses and gratifications of the Internet among
>> Arab students in Egypt...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you for your consideration of these candidates. Please note that, in
>> addition to addressing matters of geographical and gender balance, civil
>> society, like other stakeholders, needs to consider geopolitical balance and
>> the need to ensure that all stakeholder voices are represented. What might
>> appear to be simple changes to the representation we suggest can be quite
>> problematic for us, and result in either imbalance in representation or in
>> inappropriate candidates being selected. To avoid these problems which have
>> occurred in the past, we do suggest that, should you be looking at
>> appointing anyone as a civil society representative not on our list of
>> endorsements, you discuss this in confidence with our coordinators. In
>> addition to any names you might have received individually, we recognise
>> that there are a number of excellent candidates from distinct geographic
>> regions who applied to be nominated through CSCG who we were unable to
>> include in our limited number of endorsements above, that might come into
>> consideration in such discussions.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Given the investment in the important process of (perceived) legitimacy,
>> balance, transparency and consensus, we feel strongly that selections should
>> be done with our collaboration. This enhanced co-operation and consultation
>> can assist to ensure the best possible civil society representation, a goal
>> we all share. This also addresses the recommendation of the Working Group on
>> Improvements to the IGF, later endorsed by UN General Assembly, seeking
>> ‘self-management’ of stakeholder representative process by respective
>> stakeholder groups.  We are open for further discussion on this point and
>> other relevant recommendations of the mentioned Working Group.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Finally, we do think that, in the light of recommendations in the mentioned
>> CSTD WG and in Netmundial, calling for greater legitimacy, transparency and
>> stakeholder involvement in such processes, it would be appropriate in coming
>> months to review the IGF MAG selection processes, to align them more with
>> emerging best practice in ensuring stakeholder representation and also
>> overall transparency. We offer our services to work with you and other
>> stakeholder representative organisations towards this objective, which we
>> consider imperative to have in place for the 2017 MAG selection process.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Virginia Paque and Ian Peter
>> 
>> Non-voting Co Chairs CSCG
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Nomcom members: Nadira Alaraj (Best Bits), Analia Aspis (Internet Governance
>> Caucus), Robin Gross (Non Commercial Stakeholders Group, ICANN), Chat Garcia
>> Ramilo (Association for Progressive Communications), Parminder Jeet Singh
>> (Just Net Coalition)
>> 
>> The role of CSCG is to ensure a co-ordinated civil society response and
>> conduit when it comes to making civil society appointments to outside
>> bodies. Our procedures can be viewed at
>> http://www.internetgov-cs.org/procedures
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> APPENDIX ONE
>> 
>> CANDIDATES EVALUATED BY CSCG NOMCOM
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Julian Casasbuenas (LAC)*
>> 
>> Renata Aquino Ribeiro (LAC)*
>> 
>> Norbert Bollow (WEOG)*
>> 
>> Rasha Abdulla (Africa)*
>> 
>> Renata Avila (LAC)
>> 
>> Wisdom Kwasi Donkor (Africa)
>> 
>> Isaque Manteiga Joaquim (Africa)
>> 
>> Olevie Kouami (Africa)
>> 
>> Glenn McKnight (WEOG)
>> 
>> Jeremy Malcolm (WEOG)
>> 
>> Joseph Marc Antoine Ridore (Africa)
>> 
>> Grigori Saghyan (WEOG)
>> 
>> Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro (Asia-Pacific)
>> 
>> AbdulRasheed Tamton (Africa)
>> 
>> Arsene Tungali (Africa)
>> 
>> Deidre Williams (LAC)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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