Hi from Lomé / Togo - West Africa.
and thank you Robin.

+1 @Avri.
Thank you for the examples of efforts you gave to us.
You really deserve the ETHOS  Award.
Warm regards and cheers !
-Olévié-


2016-02-25 11:28 GMT+00:00 Matthew Shears <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hi Robin
>
> Thanks for this.  To whom should nominations be submitted?  Yourself?  And
> can one self-nominate?
>
> Matthew
>
>
> On 2/24/2016 11:07 PM, Robin Gross wrote:
>
> ***  Note the March 15 hard deadline for nominations.          ***
>
> Dear all
>
> As many of you are aware, the outcome document of the 2005 World
> Summit on the Information Society in Tunis [1, para 69] contains a
> call for "enhanced cooperation in the future, to enable governments,
> on an equal footing, to carry out their roles and responsibilities,
> in international public policy issues pertaining to the Internet,
> but not in the day-to-day technical and operational matters, that do
> not impact on international public policy issues."
> [1] http://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/6rev1.html
>
> So far there has been little to no agreement on how this should be
> implemented.
>
> Now the UN General Assembly has asked the Chair of the Commission on
> Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) to "establish a
> working group to develop recommendations on how to further implement
> enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda." This will
> continue work done by an earlier CSTD Working Group on Enhanced
> Cooperation, that was active from 2013-2014.
>
> There will be five Civil Society representatives on this Working
> Group, one from each UN region. These civil society representatives
> will be selected by the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG), see
> below for further information. I'm sure that before long CSCG will
> publish an official announcement detailing selection criteria, but
> since time is short, here is the information which is available
> already:
>
> The Civil Society Coordination Group requests that Civil Society
> communities and individuals submit names of candidates 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 CSTD Working Group on
> Enhanced Cooperation, the announcement for which can be found at
> http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1193.
> More information about the WG proposal can be found at
> http://unctad.org/meetings/en/Presentation/CSTD_2015_s11_Major_en.pdf .
> 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).
>
> Shortlists should be submitted to the CSCG’s nominations committee
> (nomcom) via the email address nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot] org
> no later than 15 March 2016. Independent Civil Society experts (i.e.
> those who are not nominated by a civil society network or other
> community) are welcome to send self-nominations directly to the CSCG
> nomcom by the same deadline.
>
> Nominations should include a short bio of one paragraph, one
> paragraph of motivation to be a civil society representative to the
> WG, 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 WG. 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
> Working Group.
>
>
> About CSCG and the current nomcom:
>
> The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) has been established 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 (APC), Internet Governance
> Caucus (IGC), Just Net Coalition (JNC), and the Non-Commercial
> Stakeholders Group of ICANN.
>
> As per the CSCG's procedures [2], for any selection task, the CSCG
> will determine selection criteria and announce them as part of a call
> for candidates, which is then circulated as broadly as possible
> across many different constituencies. All members of the CSCG
> nomination committee are required to consider the interests of civil
> society as a whole, and not just 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.
> [2]​ http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures
>
>
> Peter Major, the Chair of the CSCG, has appointed CSCG as the "focal
> point" for appointments of Civil Society representatives on this
> Working Group, and CSCG has correspondingly established a nomcom for
> this selection task.
>
> 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. Members of the civil society networks which are
> directly represented on the nomcom are requested to address such
> communications to the representative of the corresponding network,
> while the co-chairs of CSCG, Ginger Paque and Ian Peter, are
> available for inquiries from others.
>
> The members of the CSCG nomcom for the CSTD WG on Enhanced
> Cooperation are:
>
> Deirdre Williams, representative of the Civil Society Internet
> Governance Caucus (IGC), and recent Co-Coordinator of the IGC
>
> Chat Garcia Ramilo, representative of the Association for
> Progressive Communications (APC), and Deputy Executive Director of APC
>
> Ginger (Virginia) Paque, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, and with Diplo
> Foundation, Internet Governance Programmes
> (contact: virginiap at diplomacy dot edu)
>
> Ian Peter, non-voting Co-Chair of CSCG, independent
> (contact: ian dot peter at ianpeter dot com)
>
> Nadira Alaraj, representative of Best Bits
>
> Norbert Bollow, representative of the Just Net Coalition (JNC), and
> Co-Convenor of JNC
>
> Robin Gross, representative of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group
> (NCSG), and member of the NCSG Executive Committee
>
>
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