Hi everyone,
I've heard back from the CS coordinator for the selection process, and she's requested that we send backup materials to support each candidate. She's also requested that we make two or three of our people alternates, with one person as our primary nomination. I'd endorse having Taran be our primary nomination, as he's passionate and articulate about Internet policy, interested in participating, and is from the South. Would others support this? Taran, would you support it?
They've supplied me with a list of information they'd like submitted for our nominees. As you'll see, this list is to weed out people who are very interested in being nominated from others who are less so, or are less qualified. So I have a feeling this may narrow our list down to one, or perhaps even none. Comments? -ac
Format for submitting nomination(s)
In making your caucuses/working groups recommendation, we request that you submit the following information, which will be passed on to Mr. Kummer, with the names of the candidates. Individual members of the CS plenary may also submit nominations. Individuals should also submit their nominations based on the criteria explained below.
- Reliable contact information for the candidate; i.e. email, telephone, fax and postal address.
- A statement indicating the qualities that the person would bring to the WGIG. While no particular content is being required, it is recommended that this section include a discussion of the concerns mentioned above and a discussion of the experience and perspective the candidate would bring to the WGIG discussions.
- A statement of the person's governance related affiliations. That is information such as: which sector does the person belong to (government, industry or civil society), what caucuses/working groups do they participate in, employer, national background, and language skills.
- An indication from the candidate that they understand the work load they are volunteering for and that they are available during the expected period of deliberations.
- A short statement about your caucus/working group. Include information about the group's background and history, membership (numbers), and achievements or other information you think relevant. Please give a URL for a website if you have one.
Gáspár Mátyás wrote:
Dear All,
Nominating me to represent the world telecentre movement is a great
recognition of my work in our region. Thanks. I'm quiet and waiting with
the respond because I don't see what this work/mission means in
practice, whether my different skills, are good for that, or not. First,
serving in such position, I'm afraid, my English is not good enough (my
native language is Hungarian, and the second, close to the native is
Russian, English is my so called "woking" languge. The other thing is,
my position at this moment is a telecentre volunteer, parallely with my
loved telecentre "hobby" as the EUTA president and expert, I've to work
also for money for living (teaching at Budapest Economy College,
consulting the Hungarian Ministry of Informatics, city governments, and
also UNDP in community informatics missions). So, of course, it will be
great honor for me to work in this mission, I think I have good
experience for that, but to give a responsible answer(yes or no), I
simply doesn't see the whole picture, how this affects my life. But, if
you think - despite this - I'm the "solution", let's go further, I'm not
against, please help me to clarify, wether my conditions are real
constrains. If not, I'm ready to work with this group and future
organisation on my "right place". My basic interest is to create a
world-wide multicultural community telecentre network, without borders,
based on some shared values (community, solidarity, knowledge, equal
opportunity and some others).
Matyas Gaspar
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Given the fact we're extremely short on time, and also that the likelihood of any of our candidates being picked is modest at best, I would be comfortable submitting Gaspar, Karin and Taran, all of whom I think would represent our interests quite well. My one concern is that we have not heard from either Gaspar or Karin, and I fear they may not come online before it is too late. Perhaps what we could do is this: I could contact the coordinator of the process, and see if it would be alright to offer their names tentatively, and explain that we are a brand new working group and only got the notice at the last minute, so we're still waiting to hear from Gaspar and Karin to confirm their interest. That way, we can throw their names into the hat rather than miss the hat entirely, but have the option to withdraw their names if they decline the nomination.
Would anyone have any objections to this? Or a better idea? Time is running very short...
ac
Don Cameron wrote:
We are probably already beaten by the short deadline however great to
see a
few nominations for the Working Group for Internet Governance (as
limited as
this definition may be) - Matyas Gaspar is widely known in Telecentre circles as a person of empathy and understanding of the challenges we
face
and I willingly support the nomination. Karin is unknown to me however
the
great work of Chasquinet would certainly support nomination as someone representative of the aims and objectives of the Telecentre Working
Group.
Rgds, Don
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