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On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> FYI:  The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) nominations to the 2016
> IGF MAG are below.  Thanks to all who expressed interest in serving.  The
> UN DESA makes the ultimate selections for the IGF MAG.
>
> Best,
> Robin
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"Ian Peter" <[log in to unmask]>
> *Date: *February 1, 2016 at 12:14:33 AM PST
> *To: *"CSCG NomCom for 2016 MAG appointments" <[log in to unmask]>,
> <[log in to unmask]>
> *Subject: **[cs-coord] Fw: Civil Society MAG 2016 endorsements and
> recommendations*
>
> Folks, (both Nomcom and CSCG members)
>
> Attached in document form, and also below, is the final report of the CSCG
> Nomcom for 2016 MAG nominations. Please circulate to your lists.
>
> Many thanks to my co-chair Ginger Paque and also the Nomcom team (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)) for a fantastic effort.
>
> Ian Peter
>
> REPORT FOLLOWS
>
>
> (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:
>
>
>
>    1. *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.
>
>    2. *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
> <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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