[CS Bureau] Fwd: Internet Governance working group

[Olivier Nana Nzépa]

Dear All,
The issue of the CS representation on the WGIG in an urgent matter we have to resolve as quickly as possible. Just to update from the Africa Civil Society 
perspective. as you are all aware, the Africa CS 
provided itself a coordinating mechanism through 
election in Geneva, December 2003, and it 
constitutional meeting in Tunis in April 2004. 
In that capacity, we approached M. Kummer in 
Tunis in June during the Prepcom I and in Kuala 
Lumpur in July 2004 during the ICANN meeting. 
These two meetings were followed up by a mail to 
which we got an answer from M. Kummer saying his 
engagment to make sure that the south voices be 
herd in the WGIG. In that regard, the Africa CS 
is invited to make representation during the 
WGIG meeting planned for September 2004 in 
Geneva. I don't know yet what form the ACSIS 
representation will take, but M. Kummer. who is 
is vacation now, will give more details when 
back.
In the mean time, we have asked people from our 
constituency willing to serve best a that 
position to come forward. We have got two 
candidates, Tracey Naughton and Emmanuel Njenga. We have been informed the Group is looking for people who are not only technology savvy, but have the capacity to listen and are consensual oriented.
Lets see how the discussion on the bureau turns 
out and how the intiatives already taken by 
Africa Civil Society can fit in.
Best
Olivier


Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote: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


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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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