[WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: Suggested Guidelines forNominationsCommittee - Renewal of GAID Steering Committee

Mon Sep 10 07:26:44 BST 2007

Thank you Parminder,

I do think that the absence of any self organization of the Civil Society have already decreased the implication and the interest of the most components of civil society in the post WSIS process. Phillipe Dam did his best to disseminate the information he had every time it was possible for him. We have to thank him loudly. But it was a personal effort.  

Sure, there is no perfect representation system, but I think that we need an organization that let all of us well informed and well involved (not only closed groups).

Propositions of Francis Muguet may be considered. I don't think we need to start from nothing. We have to assess our experience of the WSIS process, and to improve it.

Thank you again.   

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  Philippe

  Will you want to declare what happened with the GAID steering committee nomination process (we did discuss it in Geneva recently, but it is good to declare it here as well), and what do we intend to do with nominations for the strategy council. I am only taking suggestions form everyone here, and not necessarily implying CONGO must take this role up.

   I am afraid CS will completely lose out in the new post-WSIS multistakeholder processes. And the absence of any self-organizing process of CS will be used by the powers-that-be to make it into  a system of 'nominating' CS 'reps' from the top, which serves to create the illusion of CS representation without it really being so. And then in the name of CS involvement and multistakeholderism dominant ideological and policy positions can get promoted, which leaves us worse off them without any multistakeholder structures at all.

  I wonder if there are actors here who have any interest in this issue. Is so, we may need to act now. 

  Best

  Parminder 

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  IT for Change, Bangalore

  Bridging Development Realities and Technological Possibilities 

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  From: plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces at wsis-cs.org] On Behalf Of CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam
  Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:20 PM
  To: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance at lists.cpsr.org
  Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: Suggested Guidelines for NominationsCommittee - Renewal of GAID Steering Committee
  Importance: High

  Dear all, 

  For your information and based on your feedback, I proposed this process to the 25 CS members of GAID structures. 

  It includes most of the comments made so far, while keeping them somewhat flexible. 

  We will try to make this process as simple and as little time-consuming as possible, given the timelines.

  It is of course understood that a nomination process for GAID Strategy Council membership should be wider and more inclusive.

  Thanks for your understanding.

  Best, 

  Ph

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  Objet : Suggested Guidelines for Nominations Committee - Renewal of GAID Steering Committee
  Importance : Haute

  Dear all, 

  As you know the GAID Secretariat recently circulated a note on the partial renewal of the membership of the GAID governing structures. In particular, it was announced that one of the two seats reserved to civil society representatives in the GAID Steering Committee should be renewed before the next Steering Meeting taking place in New York on 19 September 2007. The GAID Secretariat invited civil society to identify nominations from among their constituencies, through a self-nomination process. 

  Timelines for the renewal of Steering Committee membership are as follows:

       GAID Steering Committee

        Deadline for outgoing members 

        to express their interest in a renewal 

        of their terms

        15 August 2007

        Deadline for new nominations for membership 

        1 September 2007

        Date of the membership renewal 
       19 September 2007

        New York

  Based on the experiences of the CS Nomination Committee for the IGF Advisory Group and GAID governing structures in the first half of 2006, we proposed that we use of similar model for this process. However, due to the very short time available and to the fact that only one seat is going to be renewed, and in order to increase the representative ownership of the nomination to be done, we also proposed that a Nominations Committee to submit a recommendation for the member of the Steering Committee should be identified among the outgoing civil society members of the GAID Strategy Council and High Level Panel of Advisors. Those two proposals received several supports among CS constituencies. 

  Selection of the CS Nominations Committee 

  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. 

  Out of the 25 civil society members of the Strategy Council and of the High Level Panel of Advisors (see list attached), at least 5 individuals should volunteer to serve within the Nominations Committee. The final number of members of the Nominations Committee could be flexible (preferably between 5 and 10 persons). They would act in their personal capacities. 

  Volunteers should announce their wish to participate in the Nominations Committee no later than Friday 24 August 2007 at 12:00 am GMT. The NomCom's final recommendations would have to be forwarded to the GAID Executive Director no later than 1 September 2007. 

  The work of the Nominations Committee would be facilitated by a non-voting facilitator (I propose my service to serve in that capacity and to use the CONGO website for more transparency and updates if needed). 

  Thanks for your attention. We will try to make it as simple as possible for volunteers serving in the nominations committee. I'll circulate some more information on proposed timelines for identification of candidates and proposed guidelines for selection tomorrow.

  Looking forward to your reactions. 

  All the best, 

  Philippe

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