[WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership

[Adam Peake]

I'll also volunteer for the nominating committee.

Adam Peake.  GLOCOM.




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>I volonteer for the CS NomCom Pool.
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>Betreff: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for
>GAID Strategic Council membership
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>Dear all,
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>This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom
>process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID
>Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure
>might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so
>that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some
>flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December).
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>Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines
>below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be
>published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in
>selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about
>that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but
>the process could remain unchanged.
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>Selection of a CS Nomination Committee
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>The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their
>personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For
>the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many
>volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.
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>Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce
>themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS
>affiliation at wsis at ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers,
>ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published
>online.
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>The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21
>November 2007.
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>*          Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to
>demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related
>processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of
>civil society self-organised working processes.
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>*          Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from
>selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if
>you are randomly selected) does.
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>*          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a
>representative selection in the Nom Com.
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>*          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the
>Nomination Committee.
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>The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on
>21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a
>non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody
>objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).
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>If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons
>by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among
>this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering Committee
>CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to
>identify such membership.
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>Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council
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>Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all
>representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to
>WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for
>Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the
>MDGs.
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>Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must
>be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m.
>GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:
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>Name:
>CS Affiliation(s):
>Country:
>Gender:
>Age:
>Biographical Statement:
>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:
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>The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and
>criteria.
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>They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to
>the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.
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>Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected
>that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow
>for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.
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>As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS
>self-nomination process and to make it successful.
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>Looking forward to reading you in this regard.
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>Best regards,
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>Philippe
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>Philippe Dam
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