[WSIS CS-Plenary] recommendations for WGIG
rsagun at takingitglobal.org
rsagun at takingitglobal.org
Thu Oct 7 10:28:28 BST 2004
Dear All,
First of all, I thank the NomComm for its decision to include me as one of
the CS "connectors". The WGIG process is just beginning and I believe CS
should take this opportunity to unite amidst the diversity of opinions and
positions through nurturing an open, inclusive and transparent dialogue and
consultative process. And for this to be structured, I think the CS slate
of WGIG candidates (or whoever from CS are formally called upon to be
official WGIG members) and "connectors" should establish among themselves
and the entire CS constitueny a mechanism (or "terms of reference") that
puts accountability and transparency at the very heart of their WGIG work.
To follow through, I would like to raise some questions with respect to the
work arrangements of the "connectors" to the WGIG CS candidates. As the Nom
Comm/Bertrand's statement below comes to me as rather vague and too broad.
>These connectors will follow closely the work of the WGIG
>and participate in its process to help ensure a good articulation
>between the different issues. Should the WGIG decide to create
>sub-groups on thematic issues, these connectors will also help mobilize
>the relevant actors.
1. How would the "connectors" specifically work with the CS reps to the
WGIG AND to the entire WGIG itself? Putting the specifics would be a good
start.
2. Would the "connectors" be provided with opportunities to physically
engage in WGIG consultative meetings?
On a separate but very important issue, shouldn't the selected CS nominees
and "connectors" who are affiliated or who represent private
sector-dominated CS groups have applied for nomination through the Private
Sector, who as a sector is fielding its own nominees? Don't you think it
defeats the purpose of having equal stakeholder representation to WGIG?
Best regards,
Robert Sagun
Policy Coordinator, WSIS Youth Caucus
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[mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Adam Peake
Sent: October 6, 2004 3:20 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; plenary at wsis-cs.org
Cc: jeanette at wz-berlin.de; rbloem at ngocongo.org; iza at anr.org;
valeriab at apc.org
Subject: [governance] recommendations for WGIG
A list of candidates, 9 recommendations for the
working group and a second slate of 8
"connectors" were sent to Markus Kummer yesterday.
Due to an oversight (I was travelling from the US
to Japan) Jacqueline A. Morris was omitted from
the list of connectors. This oversight has been
corrected and Markus Kummer informed.
Jacqueline is from Trinidad and Tobago and was
recommended by the WSIS-Gender Caucus.
Slate of candidates for the WGIG itself:
* Carlos Afonso (Brazil)
* Karen Banks (Australia)
* Vittorio Bertola (Italy)
* Avri Doria (USA/Israel)
* William Drake (USA)
* Raul Echeberria, (Uruguay)
* Wolfgang Kleinwächter (Germany)
* Marlyn Tadros (Egypt)
* Ang Peng Hwa (Singapore)
Slate of "connectors":
* Jonathan Cave (UK), Scientific Information WG
* Georg Greve (Germany), Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks WG
* Gus Hosein (Canada), Privacy and Security WG
* Joseph Sarr (Senegal), Cities and Local Authorities Caucus
* Robert Sagun (Philippines), Youth Caucus
* Hiroshi Kawamura (Japan), Persons with Disabilities Caucus
* Aidan White (Ireland), Media Caucus
* Jacqueline A. Morris (Trinidad and Tobago), Gender Caucus
Note that the African Caucus sent a list of names
separately to Markus Kummer, we did not know who
was on their list until late yesterday so were
unable to include their recommendations and did
not try to duplicate.
The recommendations were sent to Markus Kummer
yesterday by Izumi Aizu. Izumi's emails to Mr.
Kummer copied below.
Thank you,
Adam
>
>Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:35:37 +0900
>To: Markus KUMMER <mkummer at unog.ch>
>From: Izumi Aizu <iza at anr.org>
>Subject: Civil Society Plenary Recommendation for the Members of the
> WGIG
>Cc: Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wz-berlin.de>,
> Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE <lachapelle at openwsis.org>,
> Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>, rbloem at ngocongo.org,
valeriab at apc.org,
> iza at anr.org
>
>Dear Markus,
>
>Here attached is the Civil Society Plenary's slate of people for the
>Members of the Working Group on Internet Governance.
>
>This selection is done through extensive online process and also some
>off-line discussions among all the caucus and family members of the
>Civil Society Plenary of the WSIS.
>
>We have setup a website for all the candidates recommended from
>different Caucuses and Working Group/Families:
>
>http://www.net-gov.org/wgig/
>
>The final selection was carried out by small number of volunteers acted
>as "NomCom", facilitated by the two co-coordinators of the Internet
>Governance Caucus, Jeanette Hofmann and Adam Peake, though Jeanette did
>not directly participate the nomination/selection, but remained as more
>of procedural and logistical coordinator. All NomCom members were, by
>default, excluded from the selection.
>
>NomCom members include:
>
>Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE <lachapelle at openwsis.org>
>Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
>Renata Bloem <bloem at ngocongo.org>
>Valeria <valeriab at apc.org>
>Izumi Aizu <iza at anr.org>
>
>On behalf of the co-coordinators, and in the interest of time, I am
>sending this to you, since Adam is still on the road and Jeannete also
>is going to travel today.
>
>We hope you will find these people all well qualified and be of your
>help in the final selection.
>
>all the best,
>
>izumi
>
>
> >> Izumi Aizu <<
>
> Institute for HyperNetwork Society
>
>New Institute for Social Knowledge and Collaboration
> Kumon Center, University of Tama
> IGTF-J
> Internet Users Network, Tokyo
> * * * * *
> << Writing the Future of the History >>
> www.anr.org
>
>Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:29:49 +0900
>To: wgig at unog.ch
>From: Izumi Aizu <iza at anr.org>
>Subject: Internet Governance Caucus submission, on behalf of Civil
> Society/WSIS
>Cc: Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE <lachapelle at openwsis.org>,
> Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wz-berlin.de>,
> Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>, rbloem at ngocongo.org,
valeriab at apc.org,
> iza at anr.org, iza at anr.org
>
>Dear Markus and WGIG secretariat,
>
>Just sending this to the other address you indicated for submission.
>
>One thing, the recommendation is not "precisely"
>of the Civil Society Plenary, per se,
>but the Internet Governance Caucus took the lead to collect names from
>all of the caucuses and families of the Civil Society, with no
objection, and
>then formed a NomCom including non-members of IG Caucus, and finalized
>this. So broadly speaking, this is still the Civil Society
recommendation,
>but in a narrow term, it was facilitated and selected by Internet
Governance
>Caucus.
>
>best,
>
>izumi
>
> >> Izumi Aizu <<
>
>
> Institute for HyperNetwork Society
>
>
>New Institute for Social Knowledge and Collaboration
> Kumon Center, University of Tama
> IGTF-J
> Internet Users Network, Tokyo
> * * * * *
> << Writing the Future of the History >>
> www.anr.org
>
>
>
>
> >> Izumi Aizu <<
>
> New E-mail Address!!
> <iza at anr.org>
> www.anr.org
>
> Institute for HyperNetwork Society
>
> << Writing the Future of the History >>
(Bertrand de La Chapelle's email explaining the
recommendations, was subject "Re: [governance]
Proposition de candidats pour le WGIG")
>Dear all,
>
>After the first round of consultations in Geneva on
>September 20-21, the size, composition and mandate of the
>WGIG remain in discussion. This makes the selection of potential
>members from civil society a delicate issue that the Internet
>Governance Caucus wanted to address in the most transparent and
>inclusive manner.
>
>In its contribution to the September Consultations, the
>IG Caucus indicated its recommendations for the WGIG :
>
>- a limited size (20-30 members)
>- a facilitating role for a larger group of stakeholders rather than a
>high level decision-making group
>- a fully balanced composition (1/3 governments, 1/3 private sector,
>1/3 civil society)
>
>The IG Caucus therefore decided to designate a slate of
>about 10 people, aiming as much as possible for a geographical, gender,
>age and profile balance.
>
>The Internet Governance Caucus also considered that although the origin
>of the WGIG creation was to address principally the Domain Name System
>and ICANN, it will progressively cover a broader definition of Internet
>Governance and will need to expand its competence pool accordingly.
>
>Finally, the main purpose of the WGIG should be to
>facilitate an iterative consultation and drafting process within the
>larger group of concerned stakeholders, via both physical meetings and
>online consultations.
>
>In that context, the IG Caucus not only determined a list of nominees
>for itself but also invited other regional and thematic civil society
>caucuses to identify potential candidates to be taken into
>consideration. This dual and bottom-up process process produced a list
>of 35 nominees and the profiles of nominees wer publicly posted on
>http://www.net-gov.org/wgig/
>.
>At the initiative of one of the Caucus co-coordinators, a
>small NomCom was formed to review the list of nominees and
>facilitate identification of an appropriately balanced slate
>to be transmitted to the Secretary General.
>
>This process was not easy and resulted in two complementary sets of
>names.
>
>First, a limited slate of candidates for the WGIG itself :
>
>- Carlos Afonso (Brazil), Technical Development Director,
>RITS
>- Karen Banks, (Australia), Association for Progressive communications
>- Vittorio Bertola (Italy), Chair, ICANN At Large Advisory
>Committee
>- Avri Doria, (USA), Lulea University, Sweden
>- William Drake (USA), President, Computer Professionals for
>Social Responsibility
>- Raul Echeberria, (Uruguay), LACNIC CEO
>- Wolfgang Kleinwächter (Germany), Professor for
>International Communication Policy and Regulation,
>University of Aarhus,
>Denmark
>- Marlyn Tadros, (Egypt), Executive Director, Virtual
>Activism
>- Ang Peng Hwa, (Singapore), Dean of School of Communication
>& Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
>
>
>Second, based on the submissions from other Civil Society thematic
>caucuses, a list of "connectors" has been established to facilitate
>interaction with various thematic constituencies as the process expands
>to a broader range of issues :
>
>- Jonathan Cave (UK), senior Economist, Rand Europe;
>connector for the Scientific Information Working Group
>- Georg Greve (Germany), President, Free Software
>Foundation Europe, connector for the Patents, Copyrights and
>Trademanrks WG;
>- Gus Hosein (Canada), Fellow Information Systems, London Schoold of
>Economics and Senior Fellow, Privacy International; connector for
>Privacy and Security WG;
>- Joseph Sarr (Senegal), President, NTIC Commission of the Dakar
>Regional Council; connector to the Cities and Local Authorities Caucus
>- Robert Sagun (Philippines), Policy Coordinator of the WSIS
>Youth Caucus
>- Hiroshi Kawamura (Japan), Japanese Society for the
>Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD), Daisy
>Consortium Board member; connector to the Persons with
>Disabilities caucus
>- Aidan White (Ireland), General secretary of the
>International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), connector for
>the Media caucus;
>
>(A full list of Civil Society caucuses and Working Groups is available
>at : http://www.wsis-cs.org/caucuses.html )
>
>These connectors will follow closely the work of the WGIG
>and participate in its process to help ensure a good articulation
>between the different issues. Should the WGIG decide to create
>sub-groups on thematic issues, these connectors will also help mobilize
>the relevant actors.
>
>This dual list intends to cover on the one hand the
>immediate nomination needs in the WGIG creation phase and,
>on the other hand, to anticipate its future activities.
>
>No list or suggestion can be perfect and the members of the NomCom
>tried their best to pay tribute to the broad range of competences
>available. We hope the above-mentionned lists - that will be sent to
>Markus Kummer for his meetings in New York tomorrow - will facilitate
>the full participation of civil society in the WGIG.
>
>The NomCom was composed of Adam Peake, Renate Bloem, Izumi Aizu,
>Valeria Betancourt and Bertrand de La Chapelle.
>
>Sincerely
>
>Bertrand de La Chapelle
>
>
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 18:49:33 -0300
From: Carlos Afonso <ca at rits.org.br>
Subject: [governance] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] recommendations for WGIG
To: plenary at wsis-cs.org, governance at lists.cpsr.org
Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20041006184759.03626f98 at pop.rits.org.br>
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I would like to take advantage of this msg from Adam to reinforce my
proposal that WGIG makes sure people who have been indicated by any
constituency to compose its membership have some form of participation
(using online tools) - besides the fact already emphasized by Vittorio that
we need the entire WGIG work to be as transparent as possible in all
respects in relation to all consituencies.
Whoever is finally chosen when white smoke finally comes out of the WGIG
entrails :) should have the mission to keep in close touch with her/his
respective constituencies to make sure information flow is as unrestricted
as possible.
fraternal regards
--c.a.
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