[WSIS CS-Plenary] proposed list of speakers for Tunis

[Jacqueline Morris]

HI Laina
I doubt that the CS should be multistakeholder as we are one of the
stakeholders. Can't include Govt and business in the CS, I don't
think.
I agree that the speakers should represent the geographic, gender,
cultural diversity of CS.
But isn't that what Rik et al tried to do with the criteria? At least
that's what I got form the emails he sent.
Jacqueline
On 10/3/05, Laina Raveendran Greene <laina at getit.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks Rik for responding with an explanation. I would mainly like to hope
> that more caucuses will be considered, and also to register my concern for
> some speakers speaking more than once or oneorganisation represented more
> than once. Ithink we need to be multistakeholder and inclusive ourselves too
> and will hope you will look into rectifying this.
>
> Thanks,
> Laina
>
>  ________________________________
>  From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On
> Behalf Of Rik Panganiban
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:07 PM
> To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] proposed list of speakers for Tunis
>
>
> Greetings to all,
>
>
> As I reported during the last Content and Themes meeting on Friday, the
> selection committee worked hard to try and balance the selected list of
> civil society Tunis speakers based on a number of considerations, including
> gender balance, regional balance, and thematic diversity, as well as being
> at a high-level in their organization, being a "high-profile" person,
> general competence, involvement in the WSIS, and speaking ability.  As I
> noted, we were not 100% satisfied with the nominations, particularly the
> lack of nominees from Latin America and the Carribean. But we felt
> all-in-all it was probably the best list we could provide in the time
> allotted and the restricted number of slots.
>
>
> I also noted that it was likely that the ITU was going to to continue to
> receive individual nominations from organizations over the next days, and to
> present to the Selection Committee a final list for our consideration and
> feedback probably by the end of this week.  At this point, the committee
> will see what can be done to make sure the final list of speakers in Tunis
> is the most representative speakers from civil society we can muster, within
> the requirements presented to us by the ITU.
>
>
> We will be happy to continue receiving your feedback on the nominees, which
> you can direct to me at rikp at earthlink.net.  I will make sure all of these
> concerns are directed to the committee.
>
>
> We appreciate your support and understanding.
>
>
> Rik Panganiban
> on behalf of the Selection Committee
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org
> [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On Behalf Of Rik
> Panganiban
> Sent: 30 September 2005 20:52
> To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] proposed list of speakers for Tunis
>
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Please find attached the list of suggested nominees to be delivered to the
> ITU for their consideration for the various speaking slots in Tunis, as
> compiled by the selection committee which met until very late last night.
> For your recollection, at the Plenary Session yesterday morning, you
> approved of a selection committee to narrow down the list of applicants
> composed of the following individuals:
>
>
>     1 representative from each regional group
>     1 representative of the CS Content and Themes
>     1 representative of the CS Bureau
>     1 representative of the WSIS Executive Secretariat in an advisory
> capacity
>
> The Committee worked hard to achieve several "balances" including regional,
> gender, age, linguistic, and thematic.  We also worked hard to make sure
> that all caucuses and working groups that proposed names had at least one of
> their nominations included.  You see here the regional and gender breakdown
> of the nominees:
>
>     Opening Ceremony
>     Gender: man (1) /  woman (1)
>     Geographical Balance: Europe (1): Germany; Africa (1): Mali
>
>     High Level Panel
>     Geographical Balance: Africa (2): Kenya, Senegal; Asia (3): Thailand,
> Philippines, India
>
>     Gender balance : Women (3) / Men (2)
>
>      Round Tables
>     Geographical Balance: Africa (1) : Senegal; Asia (4) : India, Japan,
> Philippines (2); North America (1); Europe (4) : France, Germany (2),
> Russian Federation
>     Gender balance : Women (4) / Men (6)
>
>     Plenary Sessions
>     Geographical Balance: Africa (9): Cameroon (1); Guinea (1); Kenya (2);
> Nigeria (1) ; Tunisia (3); South Africa (1); Zambia (1); Americas (3):
> Brazil (1), United States (2); Asia (4): Bangladesh (1), India (1), Iran
> (1), Philippines (1); Europe (3): Ireland (1), France (2), United Kingdom
> (1)
>     Gender balance : Women (10) / Men (12)
>
> There were many wonderful nominations, and narrowing down the list was a
> very difficult and painful task.  However we feel confident that the current
> list is a good one that we hope meets with your approval.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Rik Panganiban
> On Behalf of the Selection Committee
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ===============================================
>
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>
> Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations
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>
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