The official call for nominations is open!
I hope many of you will consider applying for this opportunity to represent civil society on the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC). We need one representative from each UN geographic region on this working group. Deadline to apply is 15 March 2016 - details below. Thanks!
Best,
Robin
Call for nominations for CSTD WG on Enhanced Cooperation
The Civil Society Coordination Groups (CSCG) is seeking civil society nominations 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 United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC), 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).
Peter Major, the Chair of the CSTD, has appointed CSCG as the focal point for appointments of Civil Society representatives on the WGEC, and CSCG has correspondingly established a nominations committee (Nomcom) for this selection task. We are seeking one CS representative from each of the five geographical areas: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, GRULAC, and WEOG. The Chair has requested that we include, to the extent possible, selection of former members of the previous working group in order to ensure the continuation of institutional memory, and the point in the UNGA resolution to “take into consideration the work that has been done on this matter so far.” While remote participation will most probably be available, he also notes that remote participation “may not be very efficient in case of intensive debates and drafting”. In addition, he notes that “As for funding, the Secretariat of the CSTD will try and find means to facilitate participation from developing countries”.
Nominations should be submitted to the CSCG’s nominations committee via the email address nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot] org no later than 15 March 2016, or via one of the member coalitions (IGC, Best Bits, JNC, NCSG, APC) following their procedures. Independent civil society experts (i.e. those who are not nominated by a civil society organisation or network) 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 WGEC, 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 WGEC. 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 WGEC. It is understood that nominees must be able to attend (most) meetings as established by the WGEC.
About CSCG and the current NomCom:
The Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) exists solely 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, Internet Governance Caucus, Just Net Coalition, and Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group of ICANN.
As per the CSCG's procedures (available at http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures), for any selection task, the CSCG will determine selection criteria and announce them as part of a call for candidates, which will then be circulated as appropriate, in this case as broadly as possible across as many different constituencies as possible.
Selection criteria for WGEC:
--substantive proposals or a vision on “how to further implement enhanced cooperation as envisioned in the Tunis Agenda”;
--experience in or qualifications to represent civil society on the WG;
--English language proficiency;
all to be evaluated using the information submitted with the nomination. Final selection will consider gender and geographical location, to ensure an appropriate balance.
All members of the CSCG nomination committee are required to consider the interests of civil society as a whole, and not just those of 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.
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. The co-chairs of CSCG, Ginger Paque and Ian Peter, are available for inquiries.
The members of the CSCG nomcom for the CSTD WGEC 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 ICANN’s Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group
(NCSG), and member of the NCSG Executive Committee
Information on the Previous WGEC
Previous representatives from civil society
Mr. Carlos A. Afonso, Executive Director, NUPEF Institute
Ms. Avri Doria, Independent Researcher
Ms. Grace Githaiga, Associate, Kenya ICT Action Network
Ms. Joy Liddicoat, Programme Leader for Human Rights on the Internet, Association for Progressive Communications
Mr. Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director, IT for Change
Documents produced during or following previous WGEC meetings can be found on the CSTD website. Of particular interest:
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Thanks for the interest, Matt!
Nominations should be submitted to the CSCG’s nominations committee via the email address nomcom06 [at] internetgov-cs [dot] org no later than 15 March 2016. I will post more detail here to this NCSG list in a couple days about what specifically should be included in an application for consideration, as CSCG is finalizing that notice at this time.
Thanks again!
Robin
Hi Robin
Thanks for this. To whom should nominations be submitted?
Yourself? And can one self-nominate?
Matthew
On 2/24/2016 11:07 PM, Robin Gross
wrote:
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*** 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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