[WSIS CS-Plenary] Phase I: Speaker nomination process (3)

[karen banks]

dear all - part 3

A summary of the criteria for opening speaker, roundtable and general 
debate speakers

again, maybe these can be reviewed/refined/modified etc

in the next (and last message) shall try to find final list of speakers 
that were self-selected by Civil society (note - they didn't all of course 
get to speak as we weren't able to make final decision during phase I) - 
but, bill mciver's onloine workspace is no longer with us so shall have to 
look through the CT/plenary acrhives

karen

(Sent nov 14th 2003 by Susanna George, ISIS International Manila, to the CT 
list)
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Dear all, I have gone through the various emails around the issues and 
tried to pull out the points that various people have made, and comments 
made regarding the Opening Speaker have, I feel the essence of a profile of 
speakers that we can consider while trying to pull a list for submission to 
the Secretariat.

Susanna, 14 November 2003

SELECTION CRITERIA DRAFT

OPENING SPEAKER.

Criteria/ Profile of person.

- someone that can represent Civil Society (and not from one of the other 
stakeholder groups), and represent the alternative voice

- person who represents our CS main values, theories, conceptual proposals 
and practice/action lines in relation to the Information Society

- has a strong grounding in human rights issues

- speaks excellently and with eloquence about matters related to human 
rights, people

­ centred approach development, North South paradigms, information and 
communication issues, and link issues such as education, disabilities etc.

- has a cross-sectoral, holistic perspective on the above issues.

- someone whose positions most of civil society can identify with

- strong support for a woman from the South, and/or representing a 
marginalised group, and also some strong support for a speaker from Africa

- if from outside the WSIS/information sector, then someone who can provide 
an independent perspective on issues of ICT and development

- someone who is well respected, charismatic and has a media profile/public 
visibility
(whether this profile is to be a high public profile is not agreed upon)

- a visionary, with known capacity


ROUNDTABLE PROCEDURE


Suggested Procedure

1. signal to the WSIS Secretariat, that CS Plenary / CS C&T will via the CS 
Bureau as soon as possible that we will make officially concrete proposals 
(to avoid that the WSIS Secretariat or somebody else invites speakers from 
elsewhere) and

2. start to manage a list with proposed speakers for the Round Tables so 
that we can find a way to have high level and balanced geographical, 
constituency, gender etc. representation.


GENERAL DEBATE

- General debate could be seen by CS just like the PrepComs and 
Intersessions plenaries, and it could be the occasion to present our 
conclusions on the Summit official texts, process and follow-up.

- To this end, these CS speakers for declarations during the general debate 
should be nominated following exactly the same process as for the PrepComs 
and Intersessions: each caucus should have a chance to tell its conclusions.

- The Content and Themes groups should be in charge of coordinating these 
nominations, and propose relevant merging if there are more proposals than 
speaking slots.

- The compilation of such declarations by caucuses could be a very good 
alternative declaration from CS."

Matters related to selection of speakers

- Speakers must be fully briefed by concerned working groups about they 
should say in the name of CS/Caucuses

- After the nomination of "CS Speakers/Panelists" we should encourage the 
panelists to communicate with the relevant Caucus / C&T group to make sure, 
that basic points, developed over the preparatory process, should be 
adequately made public in the panel discussion. The text of their speeches 
can be written or checked by concerned working groups