<div>I will be available too.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Shahid</div> <div> </div> <div>.....................................</div> <div>Md Shahid Uddin Akbar</div> <div>ICT Consultant</div> <div>KATALYST/SwissContact</div> <div>House 20, Road 6</div> <div>Baridhara, Dhaka </div> <div>Bangladesh</div> <div><A href="mailto:shahiduddin.akbar@swisscontact-bd.org">shahiduddin.akbar@swisscontact-bd.org</A> </div> <div> <BR><BR><B><I>Parminder <parminder@itforchange.net></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>I do as well. Parminder <BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-bounces@wsis-cs.org] On<BR>Behalf Of Kleinwächter, Wolfgang<BR>Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1:14 AM<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org; CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam; Virtual WSIS CS<BR>Plenary Group Space;
governance@lists.cpsr.org; gov@wsis-gov.org<BR>Cc: CONGO - Philippe Dam; rbloem@ngocongo.org<BR>Subject: [WSIS CS-Plenary] AW: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS<BR>Self-Nomination process for GAID Strategic Council membership<BR><BR>[Please note that by using 'REPLY', your response goes to the entire list.<BR>Kindly use individual addresses for responses intended for specific people]<BR><BR>Click http://wsis.funredes.org/plenary/ to access automatic translation of<BR>this message!<BR>_______________________________________<BR><BR>I volonteer for the CS NomCom Pool.<BR><BR>w<BR><BR><BR>________________________________<BR><BR>Von: CONGO WSIS - Philippe Dam [mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org]<BR>Gesendet: Di 06.11.2007 19:06<BR>An: 'Virtual WSIS CS Plenary Group Space'; governance@lists.cpsr.org;<BR>gov@wsis-gov.org<BR>Cc: 'CONGO - Philippe Dam'; rbloem@ngocongo.org<BR>Betreff: [governance] Suggested guidelines - CS Self-Nomination process for<BR>GAID Strategic Council
membership<BR><BR><BR><BR>Dear all, <BR><BR><BR><BR>This is to suggest that we go into CS self-nomination through a NomCom<BR>process for the membership of the GAID Strategy Council (reminder: see GAID<BR>Secretariat note attached). As you know, 3-4 CS position of this structure<BR>might be open for rotation. Nomination are open until 30 November 2007, so<BR>that a CS self-nomination process should be finalized by that time (some<BR>flexibility might allow us to finish it in the early days of December). <BR><BR><BR><BR>Please start volunteering to the NomCom according to the proposed guidelines<BR>below. I'll inform you about the webpage in which the names will be<BR>published. Depending on when the seeds for the randomization process in<BR>selecting NomCom members would be drawn (I will have more information about<BR>that very shortly), the various deadlines could be slightly adjusted, but<BR>the process could remain unchanged.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Selection of a CS Nomination
Committee<BR><BR>The Nom Com will be composed of 5 CS representatives, acting in their<BR>personal capacity and randomly selected among those who would volunteer. For<BR>the selection of 5 names to be random, we should try to have 5 times as many<BR>volunteers (25) for the volunteer pool as we want Nom Com members.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Volunteers for serving in the Nomination Committee should announce<BR>themselves no later than 20 November 2007 (stating its name and CS<BR>affiliation at wsis@ngocongo.org). The list of names of the volunteers,<BR>ordered by date of receipt of message indicating interest, will be published<BR>online.<BR><BR><BR><BR>The Nom Com would be selected through a random selection process on 21<BR>November 2007. <BR><BR><BR><BR>* Members of the Nominations Committee will preferably have to<BR>demonstrate a long-standing engagement in the Information Society-related<BR>processes within the UN, in particular WSIS, as well as a good experience of<BR>civil
society self-organised working processes.<BR><BR>* Volunteering for the pool does NOT disqualify anyone from<BR>selection for the Strategic Council, BUT serving on the Nom Com (that is, if<BR>you are randomly selected) does. <BR><BR>* The more people who volunteer the better chance we have to get a<BR>representative selection in the Nom Com. <BR><BR>* There will not be two persons from the same organisation in the<BR>Nomination Committee.<BR><BR><BR><BR>The Nomination Committee would start working on line fairly intensively on<BR>21 November 2007 until 30 November 2005. Its work will be facilitated by a<BR>non voting facilitator (if nobody volunteers to do so, and if nobody<BR>objects, I would be happy to serve in this position).<BR><BR><BR><BR>If the number of volunteers to serve in the NomCom does not reach 25 persons<BR>by 19 November, we would have to consider that there is no interest among<BR>this group to go into a self-nomination process for the Steering
Committee<BR>CS membership. We would leave it completely to the GAID Secretariat to<BR>identify such membership.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Candidates for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council<BR><BR>Candidatures for the CS membership to the GA Strategy Council is open to all<BR>representatives from civil society, including CS entities accredited to<BR>WSIS, NGOs with ECOSOC status and all other CS actors interested in ICT for<BR>Development and involved in the UN development agenda towards achieving the<BR>MDGs.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Nominations (including self-nominations) and all relevant information must<BR>be sent to the NomCom facilitator NO LATER THAN 25 NOVEMBER 2007, 22:00 p.m.<BR>GMT / 24:00 p.m. Geneva Time with the following information:<BR><BR><BR><BR>Name:<BR>CS Affiliation(s):<BR>Country:<BR>Gender:<BR>Age:<BR>Biographical Statement:<BR>Vision of their specific contribution to the GA Strategy Council:<BR><BR><BR><BR>The members of the NomCom will determine in due time
their guidelines and<BR>criteria.<BR><BR>They will be requested to come out with a recommendation to be forwarded to<BR>the GAID Secretariat on 1 December 2007.<BR><BR>Since there would be 3 or 4 seats to be opened to rotation, it is expected<BR>that the NomCom recommends 4 to 6 names to the GAID Secretariat, to allow<BR>for some flexibility in the final membership of the Strategy Council.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>As a matter of principle, I strongly encourage you to contribute to this CS<BR>self-nomination process and to make it successful.<BR><BR>Looking forward to reading you in this regard.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Best regards, <BR><BR><BR><BR>Philippe<BR><BR><BR><BR>Philippe Dam<BR>CONGO - WSIS CS Secretariat <BR>11, Avenue de la Paix<BR>CH-1202 Geneva<BR>Tel: +41 22 301 1000<BR>Fax: +41 22 301 2000<BR>E-mail: wsis@ngocongo.org <mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org><BR>Website: www.ngocongo.org <BR><BR><BR><BR>The Conference of NGOs (CONGO) is an international, membership
association<BR>that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and<BR>decisions. Founded in 1948, CONGO's major objective is to ensure the<BR>presence of NGOs in exchanges among the world's governments and United<BR>Nations agencies on issues of global concern. For more information see our<BR>website at www.ngocongo.org<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Plenary mailing list<BR>Plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR>http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plenary<BR><BR>____________________________________________________________<BR>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<BR>governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>To be removed from the list, send any message to:<BR>governance-unsubscribe@lists.cpsr.org<BR><BR>For all list information and functions, see:<BR>http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/governance<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></mailto:wsis@ngocongo.org><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You
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