[Media Caucus] RE: [Media Caucus] re: Chenevière's query on selection - Tracey's thoughts

[Aidan White]

Tracey and colleagues,

My answers to the brief are below:

€ Reasons you want to participate

I have specific experience, knowledge and interest arising out of
representation of the world's largest journalists' group for the last 17
years.

€ The constituency you would represent,

The International Federation of Journalists covers journalists' groups in
every part of the world. It has offices in Asia, Africa, Latin America and
Europe and speaks on behalf of the professional and social rights of
journalists.

€ Your knowledge of the subject

I am the author of a number of texts on this subject including Pluralism and
Democracy in the Information Society (1996) and the extensive IFJ submission
to the WSIS Part One (2001). I was the chairman of the European Union
Working Party on Social and Democratic Values in the Information Society,
1998-2000. I have written for and acted as a consultant for Council of
Europe and UNESCO on aspects of this subject.

€ The key messages you believe the media caucus would get across as a result
of your participation.

The issues of access, control of quality and content and professional
administration of the Information Society should be addressed by a light
touch in terms of regulation. Independent forms of governance should be
developed that encourage enhanced use of the Internet according to public
service values, meeting the urgent demands for social inclusion, a balanced
approach to meeting social and economic objectives and ever-increasing
access by all groups in society irrespective of their socio-economic status.


Best

Aidan

-----Original Message-----
From: media-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:media-admin at wsis-cs.org]On Behalf
Of Tracey Naughton
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 11:00 AM
To: media at wsis-cs.org
Subject: [Media Caucus] re: Chenevière's query on selection - Tracey's
thoughts


Chenevière

Hello and thanks for checking in. Several people have asked me about the
criteria by which a selection will be made and I have pondered the matter at
length.

Electronic communication is not conducive to a decent discussion, or an
election, so in the end my feeling is that our list is quite short and we
could submit all our nominations - other caucus's are doing the same. This
is why I have asked people who accept their nominations to provide a
motivation that includes:

€ Reasons you want to participate,
€ The constituency you would represent,
€ Your knowledge of the subject,
€ The key messages you believe the media caucus would get across as a result
of your participation.

I hope that in this way, the candidates that will best serve the interests
of the media perspective on IG will be obvious. It also looks as though all
the candidates that have been nominated are strong and will serve our
interests, so I see no other way than submitting all.

We will be subjected to some civil society criticism when we submit a gender
imbalanced list that will be seen to be perpetuating the status quo of the
world order, but we will weather that too and hopefully address this issue
in our own contexts.

Though I have some personal (and political) concerns about the perspective
of least developed regions of the world being under represented, and a
belief that these concerns should be addressed at every strategic
opportunity, I have decided to push for that to be addressed in the other
electronic environments I am active in, because at the end of the day the
sphere of Article 19 applications for internet governance must be upheld and
we are the best people for that job. I won't elaborate on this much more,
but I think the WGIG will have to deal with a number of sub-issues and
within these debates, the various stages of national development will emerge
as different perspectives. I also have no doubt that the final selection, at
UN level, will seek to ensure global diversity.

I am also assuming that by being transparent and ensuring that everyone who
has included themselves on this caucus e-list list can see what is going on,
that if there are any alternate ideas, objections, specific support, that
these will be raised and I will moderate as required. I am certainly open to
suggestions.

In general this is a no nonsense caucus that has demonstrated its ability to
take decisions and get on with the work.....

Meanwhile, very best regards,

Tracey

Nyaka - Communication & Development
Tracey Naughton
Consultant
201 Somerset Hall
239 Oxford Road
Illovo  2196
South Africa

Phone/fax:    +27 (0) 11 880 5030
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Email:              t.naughton at iafrica.com


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