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

Wed Nov 7 09:28:12 GMT 2007

Thank you Philippe for this initiative,

If the number of volunteers does'n reach 25, I don't think it would be good to give up and let the GAID secretariat to do the selection. I think even if we have twice the number of the nom com members, we have to go ahead and select randomly 5 among 10. But under 10, I agree with you that we have to let the GAID secretariat do it.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam 
  To: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space' ; governance at lists.cpsr.org ; gov at wsis-gov.org 
  Cc: 'CONGO - Philippe Dam' ; rbloem at ngocongo.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:06 PM
  Subject: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership

  Dear all, 

  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). 

  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.

  Selection of a CS Nomination Committee

  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.

  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.

  The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21 November 2007. 

  ·          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.

  ·          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. 

  ·          The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a representative selection in the Nom Com. 

  ·          There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the Nomination Committee.

  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).

  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.

  Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council

  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.

  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:

  Name:
  CS Affiliation(s):
  Country:
  Gender:
  Age:
  Biographical Statement:
  Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:

  The members of the NomCom will determine in due time their guidelines and criteria.

  They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.

  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.

  As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS self-nomination process and to make it successful.

  Looking forward to reading you in this regard.

  Best regards, 

  Philippe

  Philippe Dam
  CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat 
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