[Media Caucus] Media Caucus nominations for WGIG

[E. Markham Bench]

Dear Tracey,

VERY nicely, thoroughly, very YOU done!  Thank you for how you handled this 
entire process, even-handedly, kindly, thoughtfully, etc. 

Sincerely, your colleague,

Mark 

Quoting Tracey Naughton <tracey at traceynaughton.com>:

> Please find below the two candidates for the UN Working Group on Internet
> Governance that are submitted by the WSIS Civil Society Media Caucus,
> following a consultative process.
> 
> Our selection has been made on the basis of people with the capacity,
> expertise and institutional resources to participate. Candidates from two
> developing contexts did not accept their nominations, based on lack of
> institutional resources to enable participation.
> 
> I am pleased to be able to put forward two strong and well informed
> candidates to this critical process in which the principles upheld by the
> media caucus have a fundamental bearing on governance generally, but
> particularly in this instance, of the Internet.
> 
> Because the media is a cornerstone of any concept of an information society,
> the Media Caucus would like to see both our candidates selected to the
> working group.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Submitted by Tracey Naughton
> Chair, WSIS Civil Society Media Caucus
> September 17th, 2004
> 
> 
> 
> Summary of Media Caucus candidates:
> 
> 
> Aidan White
> Secretary General, 
> International Federation of Journalists
> Based in Brussels 
> aidan.white at ifj.org
> 
> 
> Ronald Koven
> Vice Chair, WSIS Civil Society Media Caucus
> European Representative,
> World Press Freedom Committee
> Based in Paris
> rkoven at compuserve.com
> 
> 
> 
> Background of Media Caucus Candidates
> 
> Aidan White
> 
> White is the General secretary of the International Federation of
> Journalists (IFJ).
> The IFJ 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.
> 
> White has  specific experience, knowledge and interest arising out of
> representation of 
> the world's largest journalists' group for the last 17
> years.
> 
> White is 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). He was the chair of the European Union
> Working Party on Social and Democratic Values in the Information Society,
> 1998-2000 and has written for and acted as a consultant for Council of
> Europe and UNESCO on aspects of this subject.
> 
> 
> Ronald Koven
> 
> Ronald Koven has been the European Representative of the World Press
> Freedom Committee since 1981.
> 
> It is an umbrella organization of journalistic organizations -- 45
> international, regional and national affiliated groups on five continents,
> representing broadcast and print press, labor and management -- united in
> the defense and promotion of press freedom.
> 
> Koven has written and spoken widely on free speech and press freedom on the
> Internet. His initial statement on the subject was in a speech at the
> UNESCO General Conference in 1995. He drafted a joint statement on Internet
> governance adopted for World Press Freedom Day 2004 by the Coordinating
> Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, consisting of nine leading world
> groups -- Commonwealth Press Union (London), Committee to Protect
> Journalists (New York City), Inter American Press Association (Miami),
> International Association of Broadcasting (Montevideo), International
> Association of the Periodical Press (London), International Press Institute
> (Vienna), North American Broadcasters Association (Toronto), World
> Association of Newspapers (Paris), and World Press Freedom Committee
> (Washington, DC). He would present that statement to the Working Group on
> Internet Governance.
> 
> During the 1960s, Koven was the "De Gaulle watcher" of the International
> Herald Tribune. He joined The Washington Post in 1969 and was successively
> its Canada Correspondent, Diplomatic Editor, Foreign Editor and Paris-based
> Correspondent for Latin Europe and the Maghreb. He was the Paris
> Correspondent of The Boston Globe 1981-91 and has taught at the Political
> Sciences Institute of Paris.
> 
> Starting from the fall of the Berlin Wall, he undertook for WPFC an
> extensive program of aid to the emerging independent press in Eastern
> Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, including organizing conferences and
> seminars, publishing training manuals, legal aid projects, and providing
> targeted material help to news outlets and journalists unions and
> associations.
> 
> 
> Submitted by Tracey Naughton
> Chair, WSIS Civil Society Media Caucus
>  
> Nyaka - Communication & Development
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> 
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> Email:              tracey at traceynaughton.com
> 
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> time, but please update your records.
> 
> 
> 


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