[discuss] /1net Steering/Coordination Commitee

Thu Dec 19 23:27:07 UTC 2013

Adiel and all,

I don't know what process you went through to do this selection but you
should be aware that the process undertaken by  "Civil Society" in the
selection of their nominees was so flawed as to render any nomination from
the "Civil Society" grouping as illegitimate.

The CS "Nominating Committee" was self-selected within the extremely limited
set of civil society organizations currently active in the Internet
Governance space (many of which have little or no actual membership or
visible networking into the broader global Civil Society community). 

In the process of constituting their "Nominating Committee" there was no
attempt to reach out to additional organizations with interests or
activities in the broad IG area but which were not directly active in the
very limited existing CS IG spaces.  Where groupings such as the Community
Informatics network*, of which I am a part indicated an interest in
participation in the Nominating Committee and or of being nominated we were
rebuffed without appropriate explanation, appeal or an indication that due
transparent and accountable processes had been undertaken.

It is notable that all of the nominees from this self-selected nominating
group are senior actors in the groups which self-constituted themselves as
the nominating group and no others--a process of self-dealing, startling in
its audacity if nothing else.

As I've mentioned before on this list and to the Civil Society grouping, the
Community Informatics community consists of a large number of practitioners,
academics, researchers, and technical and policy activists, concerned with
community based and grassroots users and NON-Users of the Internet including
marginalized communities in Developed and Developing Countries, indigenous
peoples, older persons, those with disabilities among others and thus look
to provide an opportunity for "voice" for a very very significant
constituency  of those who are either under-represented or not represented
at all in current IG discussions.

I would strongly suggest that you reconsider your decision in this matter,
go back to the "CS" "nominating committee" and insist that they conduct an
appropriate, transparent, and accountable process inclusive of ALL those in
Civil Society with an active interest and "stake" in Internet Governance
matters.  

In the absence of this, unfortunately your process itself will be equally
contaminated as was the "CS" process and the outcome of your activities will
be equally unrepresentative of those globally who are impacted by and thus
"stakeholders" in the Internet.

Sincerely,

Mike

*The Community Informatics community--the larger
<http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/ciresearchers> Community
Informatics community (consisting of both the general email list and
specialized lists for
<http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/cracin-canada> Canada,
<http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/ci-research-sa> Southern Africa,
<http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/ci-for-older-persons> Older
Persons, and  <mailto:ci-indigenous at lists.knet.ca> Indigenous peoples as
well as the  <http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/about/editorialTeam>
Editorial Board of the Journal of Community Informatics

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at 1net.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at 1net.org] On Behalf
Of Adiel Akplogan
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:32 PM
To: discuss at 1net.org
Subject: [discuss] /1net Steering/Coordination Commitee

Dear colleagues,

At the end of the deadline for receiving names for the Coordination/Steering
committee (many wrote to tell me that they prefer it to be a coordination
committee instead of a steering one  - Personally I don't mind as the most
important for me is to have a multi-interest/stakeholder group that will
help us in shaping the discussions and the campaign along with creating a
sustainable bridge with every parties and interest group). 

The following names were submitted: 

** from Business:

1. Aparna Sridhar, Telecom Policy Counsel, Google 2. David Fares, Senior
Vice President, Government Relations, 21st Century Fox 3. Marilyn Cade,
President, ICT Strategies mCade 4. Sarah Wynn-Williams, Manager, Global
Public Policy, Facebook 5. Paul Mitchell, Senior Director, Technology
Policy, Microsoft Corporation 

*** from Civil Society:

1. Joana Varon

2. Rafik Dammak

3. Anriette Esterhuysen

4. Vladimir Radunovik

5. Anja Kovacs 

The Technical community have requested additional time to complete their
selection mechanism and I'm expecting to hear from Academic community
anytime. 

In order to keep thing moving and start giving some structure to this
initiative, I would like to suggest that we setup the coordination committee
with the names we have while waiting for other to join. Hopefully very soon.

As for the nominations related to Brazil meeting's committees, nothing has
really progressed from the local committee side. We have names from Business
constancy that will be forward to them. We will forward the other as I
receive them. I have shared with you on this list all the information I have
on that. Any further authoritative information regarding this and the way
forward should be coming from CGI.BR. 

Thanks.

- a.

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