[NCUC-DISCUSS] [bestbits] Right to Information

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Dear Deirdre and all

The deadline for CSCG selection of nominees to IGF Retreat is upcoming.
This process, however, depended on other aspects:
1) The candidates would have to send an email to CSCG nomcom
2) The candidates were also requested to self-nominate or be nominated
in IGF website
3) The CSCG asked CS MAG members to present the result of their
selection, so as not to indicate the same CS rep the CS MAG members
choose

I was honored to have been one of the CSCG nominees who became part of
the MAG IGF 2016
I can not speak for the whole CS at MAG of course
But I can say that the majority of MAG CS is participating on a
selection process.
Given the solution of that aspect, I am sure CSCG will follow the best
path it can in terms of appointing nominees which do fulfill all the
other conditions.

Best,

Renata



On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Deirdre Williams
<williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> Please excuse the deliberate cross-posting.
>
> The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) is just finishing a selection,
> working to very tight deadlines, of representatives of civil society as a
> whole to attend a Retreat to be held in New York next month on the future of
> the Internet Governance Forum.
>
> When the Retreat was first proposed there was considerable debate about the
> involvement of civil society, and about whether CSCG should make the
> selection. Finally it was agreed that CSCG should go ahead. After that there
> was silence.
>
> Currently there is no public knowledge of whether anyone at all in fact
> presented themselves to CSCG for selection, nor, if anyone did, do we have
> any idea of who they might be.
>
> But those about to be represented, civil society as a whole, have a right to
> know the answers to these questions, and to know them BEFORE any selection
> is completed.
>
> This is a reminder to all of us, particularly in the context of the review
> of the CSCG, of the need to remember to "think communally" if we really want
> to change a hierarchical system, to be constantly aware of the obligation of
> information as a right, not as a favour, to all participants.
>
> Lack of engagement is a ubiquitous problem of governance. The "stakeholders"
> abdicate from participation in part at least because the "more equal"
> stakeholders turn to each other rather than to them. In this there could be
> one answer to Item 2 of the call for comment on the Retreat draft agenda
> which reads:
>
> 2)     What measures can be taken to engage those stakeholders who are
> currently unengaged, with a view to expand and diversify physical and
> virtual participation?
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Deirdre
>
>
>
>
> --
> “The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
>
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