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