Dear colleagues, I'm not sure if there is an academia representative. If there is not, I volunteer. Warm regards, Nuno On 9 December 2013 17:49, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, Adiel of 1Net made some premature claims about 1Net appointing people > to the organizing committees for the Brazil meeting, however those claims > turned out to be unsupported by any facts after further questioning. > > CBI.BR is organizing the Brazil meeting and CGI.BR will provide the > deadlines and numbers of representatives per SG that will participate on > those organizing committees. Civil Society will work directly with CBI.BR > rather than through the 1Net layer for the Brazil meeting. So we wait for > the details to come from CGI.BR about impaneling the Brazil meeting > organizing committees (which should be any day). > > In the meantime, we are proposing representatives to the 1Net Steering > Committee for civil society. The deadline for making these nominations is > today 9 Dec. 23:59 UTC via this list. So far the following have been > nominated for this committee: > Rafik Dammak > Marie-laure Lemineur > Remmy Nweke > Klaus Stoll > > Please let me know if I've missed any nomination or if there are others > before the deadline today at 23:59. > > Thanks, > Robin > > > On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:42 AM, marie-laure Lemineur wrote: > > Dear Robin, > > Many thanks. I have one question and please forgive me if the answer to my > questions have already been discussed in some emails. There are so many > emails threads that it is easy to miss key information and get a little > confused :). > > I read a recent email (last Thursday) from Adiel informing that they were > looking for the nomination of 2 reps for the Multistakeholder High Level > Committee, 2 reps for the Multistakeholder Executive Committee and 5 reps > for the 1Net Steering Committee. That Civil Society, as well as other > sectors, will appoint those 9 reps. And in you email below you just call for > nomination for the Steering Committee. Thus I was wondering, what is the > planned process for the other two committees since in the case of the three > committees, the deadline for nominations given by Adiel is December 15. > > Best, > > Marie-laure > > > > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Friends, >> >> We've been told by Adiel that each of the following stakeholders will >> receive 5 spots on the 1Net Steering Committee: business, civil society, >> academia, technical. Therefore the coalition of civil society networks >> (NCSG, APC, Diplo, IGC, Best Bits) is working to nominate 5 representatives >> for civil society to the 1Net Steering Committee. We are using the same >> committee and process that we used to nominate the 2 civil society >> representatives to the High Level Panel on IG last week. >> >> Therefore, we are now accepting nominations for civil society >> representatives to the 1Net Steering Committee until Monday 9 December 23:59 >> UTC. You can nominate someone else or yourself by posting the nomination to >> this list before then. Before you nominate another please be sure that your >> nominee has already agreed to serve on the 1Net Steering Committee if she/he >> is selected by the larger coalition as one of the five civil society >> representatives. >> >> Also bear in mind that we will be similarly impaneling the civil society >> representatives to the Brazil meeting organizing committees in the coming >> weeks also, but the 1Net Steering Committee's establishment has a tighter >> deadline so we are dealing with it first. >> >> Of course it would helpful to know just what 1Net has been set up to do >> and what is the scope of its work before agreeing to serve on its steering >> committee, but those things haven't been set yet - its largely a chicken and >> egg paradox. Therefore, those people who are most interested in shaping >> the form and direction of 1Net should consider serving on its initial >> steering committee. >> >> Thank you! >> Robin >> >> >> >> >> > >