Hi,

I was on the previous group and would like to be considered for this
continued effort.

One of the major issues circles around the discussion of whether
Enhanced Cooperation is for governments only or for all stakeholders.  I
take the same equivalence of stakeholders position in such discussions
as I take in ICANN discussions, and do not believe that Enhanced
Cooperation is for governments only.  I also do not believe that this is
what is called for in the Tunis Agenda, which put the discussions of
Enhanced Cooperation in the context of the forum, i.e. the IGF.  In fact
I think that the creation of government only notion of Enhanced
Cooperation is a harmful to the participatory democratic process we call
multistakeholderism and will take us backwards.

We have had some government allies in this process, one where
governments have the final say in decision making.  I want to keep
chipping away at this government only decision making process to the
extent that I can.  While at times it feels like a bit of windmill
tilting, I think progress can be made.  And while we may have lost some
of the good will of the governments in the current Accountability
process, I believe that in the long run they will stand with other
stakeholders in rejecting a government only notion of Enhanced
Cooperation. 

Thanks for considering my continued participation

avri




On 25-Feb-16 01:07, 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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