[CS Bureau] Fwd: Internet Governance working group

Sat Aug 14 18:36:12 BST 2004

certainment un groupe de travaille de société Civile du Sud será une 
bonne idee. Pour moi, le vrai manque de dialogue et travaille en 
forme ouvert sur cette liste, y des autres vraiment me preocupe.

il y'a beacoup des choses dites , de choses a fair a la reunion en 
Tunis - j'espere que dans les semaines que vienne il y'aura plus 
d'activite et dialogue.

robert

At 3:34 PM +0000 8/14/04, Joseph Sarr wrote:
>Bonjour Jeanette,
>Bonjour à tous,
>
>En effet, il y a un réel problème pour sélectionner des noms de personnes
>pouvant participer au groupe de travail sur la gouvernance de l’Internet. Je
>pense personnellement qu’il faut essayer  d’impliquer des sensibilités variées
>afin de bénéficier au maximum de la richesse de la culture humaine.
>Malheureusement, une habitude encore vivace est de décider, à partir du Nord,
>des remèdes aux maux du Sud.
>Pour choisir les membres du groupe de travail sur la gouvernance locale, je
>pense qu’il est impératif d’élaborer une série de critères, de fixer
>éventuellement des quotas et de susciter enfin des candidatures publiques, ces
>différentes candidatures pouvant être comparées par les cursus et l’expérience
>de terrain des différents candidats.
>
>Pour ma part, je suis intéressé pour faire partie du groupe de travail sur la
>gouvernance locale, pour le compte de la Société Civile du Sud.
>
>Joseph SARR
>Famille des Autorités Locales
>
>P.S. Je m’exprime surtout en Sérère, en Wolof et en Français
>
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>Selon Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>:
>
>>  Jeanette may not be a member of the bureau list, email below does not
>>  seem to have got through.
>>
>>  Important, we need your response please.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Adam
>>
>>
>>  >Delivered-To: ajp at glocom.ac.jp
>>  >Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:25:12 +0200
>>  >From: Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wz-berlin.de>
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>>  >To:  bureau at wsis-cs.org
>>  >CC:  rbloem at iprolink.ch, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp>
>>  >Subject: Internet Governance working group
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>>  >Hi, there. I write to you in my capacity as the co-coordinator of
>>  >the Internet Governance caucus. I know, many people are on vacation
>>  >right now. Nonetheless we need some advise as to how to proceed with
>>  >regard to working group on Internet Governance. As you probably
>>  >know, procedure and composition of the UN working group are seen to
>>  >be of high importance for all stakeholders involved. Markus Kummer,
>>  >who runs the secretariat of the working group is open for
>>  >suggestions from all parties. It is therefore crucial that we as
>>  >civil society get our act together and come up with two things:
>>  >1. a statement that outlines our ideas about process and working
>>  >method of the working group
>>  >2. a list of candidates, a slate if you will, we ask Kummer and the
>>  >prospective chair of the wg to consider as members for the working
>>  >group.
>>  >
>>  >What the Internet Governance caucus has done so far is to discuss
>>  >criteria for selecting people we think would be good for the UN
>>  >working group. What turns out to be much more difficult is to come
>>  >up with an uncontroversial, pragmatic method to actually select
>>  >people. There are already several people who have put there names
>>  >forward in private mails to Adam and me. It comes as no surprise
>>  >that all of them are men and most of them are from either Europe or
>>  >the US. So, self selection is obviously not the way to go!
>>  >
>>  >One obvious way to proceed would be to put together a nomination
>>  >committee consisting of people who are well known and trusted in the
>>  >WSIS world and who are not interested to be considered for our list
>>  >of candidates. There are two problems with this approach. The first
>  > >is that
>>  >it is not clear how to select people for the nomcom. There is no
>>  >clean process to put together either a list of candidates or a list
>>  >of nomcom members that cannot be questioned by people who feel
>>  >marginalized.
>>  >
>>  >The second problem is time. Adam, the co-coordinator of the Internet
>>  >Governance caucus, is on vacation right now. I go on vacation next
>>  >week.  Both of us are thus unable to initiate a time consuming
>>  >process of putting together a committee and running it.
>>  >
>>  >Another much more pragmatic idea would be to put together a first
>>  >list of names and ask the community to make further suggestions or
>>  >endorse the list. Such a procedure is risky. It might cause lots of
>>  >harm as Adam
>>  >fears.
>>  >Another more specific problem I'd like to mention is the lack of
>>  >people from the south. The caucus itself is dominiated by Europeans
>>  >and Americans. I wouldn't even know how to find people from the
>>  >developing world who would be good candidates for the UN working
>>  >group. It is worth
>>  >keeping in mind that participation in the working group is expected
>>  >to be real time consuming. Hence, we need people who are willing and
>>  >able to commit themselves for at least 7, 8 months beginning in
>>  >autumn.
>>  >
>>  >Personally, I find it really important that we make use of this
>>  >opportunity to suggest some people for the working group. Moreover,
>>  >I think the caucus would be the right body to put together a list of
>>  >people on the basis of what we regard as due process. This is why I
>>  >ask for your advise.
>>  >
>>  >Thank you, jeanette
>>
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