[Lac] [Fwd: Re: [Wsis-pct] [Fwd: Re: [governance] names for the Working Group - some news]]

[Beatriz Busaniche]

En la lista de Patentes, copyrights y marcas de la CMSI acabo de recibir
este mensaje que indica que ya hay dos personas designadas para
representar a nuestra región en el grupo de trabajo sobre Internet
Governance.

desearía preguntar qué proceso de selección se llevó a cabo para esa
nominación y cuáles fueron los mecanismos transparentes de elección
entre posibles candidatos al WG en relación a nuestra región.

dado que no ha circulado ningún mensaje al respecto en esta lista,
desearía llamar la atención sobre este hecho.

¿Quiénes fueron candidatos? ¿cómo se eligieron los dos designados según
este mensaje? 

Agradecería información, ya que este tema nos involucra a tod at s los que
estamos trabajando en el proceso de CMSI y el acceso y la transparencia
en la información es uno de los derechos por los que luchamos verdad? 

Gracias





-----Mensaje reenviado-----
From: Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org>
To: Georg C. F. Greve <greve at fsfeurope.org>, PCT-WG <wsis-pct at fsfeurope.org>
Subject: Re: [Wsis-pct] [Fwd: Re: [governance] names for the Working Group - some news]
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 07:19:56 -0700

Hello Georg,

I'm glad you're able to join in the discussions.  As for what other 
groups are doing regarding a process for coming up with names to 
suggest, I can tell you what the ICANN Non-Commercial Constituency has 
done so far on this issue.

First a call for nominations was taken and about 22 names in total was 
proposed, this process was about 2 weeks.  In an effort to achieve 
geographic diversity, two slots were allotted to each geographic region. 
  One person who's focus is on technical expertise and one person who's 
focus is on policy issues for each region.

After receiving all the nominations, a committee winnowed it down so 
there would only be one person in each of 10 slots.  But there wasn't 
anyone nominated from the Arab part of the world, so that was left empty 
and the committee decided that due to one nominee's "global" nature, she 
should be proposed as a "global" candidate.

I was not a member of this committee so I cannot say how the committee 
made its final decisions, but I would guess it was a straight vote among 
the committee members.  Last week, the narrowed list of names was sent 
to the general NCUC mailing list for comment and criticism.  If there is 
no major objections to these selections within the next week, that will 
be the list of recommendations proposed by the NCUC group to MK/KA. 
Here is a cut and paste of the list of NCUC nominees:

----------------------------
Global:  Karen Banks

Africa
    Technical: Adiel Akplogan
     Policy: Olivier Nana Nzepa

Asia-Pacific
     Technical: Paul Wilson
     Policy: Eung Hwi Chun

Europe
     Technical: Vittorio Bertola
     Policy: Marco Cappato

Latin America
     Technical: Raul Echeberria
     Policy: Carlos Afonso

North America
     Technical: Karl Auerbach
     Policy: Susan Crawford

--------------------

I am not suggesting that we follow this specific process, but it is 
helpful to look at how other groups have made their selections.

Debate on the WSIS-IG caucus rages, with no clear process agreed to yet, 
so I think we have to wait a few days to see what they will finally 
decide on a process.  The forwarded call for nominations was only a 
draft and it is being ripped apart on the list with many calling for 
nominations to come directly from the plenary, instead of simply 
forwarding on selections from individual caucuses.  So we have to wait 
to see what we forward to them.  Either way, we should send in our own 
recommendations to the MK/KA.

But, returning to our process of selection, Georg has suggested a 
deadline of receiving nominations by Wednesday 12:00pm Geneva time. 
This sounds like a good target (about 2 and a half days from now) to me.

We need to decide how many people do we ultimately propose from our 
caucus.  I would recommend at least 3 and no more than 5 people.  I 
don't like the idea of proposing "alternates", and "teams" is not how 
the Secretary-General will make his determination, so it makes little 
sense for us to propose along those lines.  These 3 - 5 people should 
have expertise in intellectual property rights and Internet governance 
issues (as defined in previous emails).  Personally, I think our focus 
should be on protecting individual rights, particularly freedom of 
expression on this WG.

Georg has also suggested that we comment on the names from Wednesday, 
Sept. 8 until Friday, Sept. 10, 14:00 Geneva time.  I also agree with 
this process.

How do we get from a list of potentially many nominees to our final 3-5 
selections?  I think we should also set up a committee of volunteers to 
narrow down the names.  This must be a democratic process.  We cannot 
have one person making this decision for the group.

Perhaps our committee can deliberate over the weekend, and we can make 
our final selections on Monday, 13 Sept.  This is the date by which 
KA/MK have said they want to hear from people.

How do people feel about this process or something like it?

Thanks for reading such a long email!  Please comment on this proposed 
process.

Robin



Georg C. F. Greve wrote:

>  || On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:26:14 -0700
>  || Robin Gross <robin at ipjustice.org> wrote: 
> 
>  rg> [...]
> 
>  rg> KA/MK will be trying to balance between a number of different
>  rg> issues in their final selection for membership onto this Working
>  rg> Group, so if we give them several names to choose from, we will
>  rg> have a better chance of one of the names being selected.
> 
> Thanks Robin, your suggestion seems to make sense.
> 
> Do you know whether there is an agreed upon way of handling this
> within Civil Society, is this in line with what others are doing?
> 
> Let us work for now with the assumption that we will produce a ranked
> list of people to nominate with the PCT working group for the
> consensus building process.
> 
> Regards,
> Georg
> 

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