Thanks for the update information. On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, Robin Gross <[log in to unmask]> 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 -- *WISDOM DONKOR (S/N Eng.)* ICANN Fellow / ISOC Member, IGF Member, Diplo Foundation OGP Working Group Member, Africa OD Working Group Member E-government and Open Government Data Platforms Specialist National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI) Post Office Box CT. 2439, Cantonments, Accra, Ghana Tel; +233 20 812881 Email: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Skype: wisdom_dk facebook: facebook@wisdom_dk Website: www.nita.gov.gh / www.data.gov.gh www.isoc.gh / www.itag.org.gh