Dear Adam and all
Firstly, thanks to Adam for posting this, which I was planning on doing except
that more urgent business intervened (sigh).
Secondly, I endorse the nomination of Izumi Aizu...and similar to the IGF
nomination of Chun, I think all those who agree should just submit our names and
orgs to the main nominator (Glocom?), as the time for consensus-building is too
short (as usual).
Thirdly, I would just like to report that our global association APC will be
submitting nominations form various regions, and here are some of the additional
names that have come up from Asia (most of them part of the caucus and are on
this list), just for everyone's information:
- Chat Garcia Ramilo (Philippines), global coordinator of APC Women's Networking
and Support Program
- Mavic Cabrera Balleza (Philippines), currently with the Intl Womens Tribune
Center, formerly of Isis Intl-Manila
- Partha Sarker (BDesh) or Shahzad Ahmad (Pakistan) or Fred Noronha (India) from
APC member Bytes for All
- Onno Purbo (Indonesia), ICT/wireless practitioner/consultant
I also am putting in the name of
Dr. Emmanuel Lallana, of our Commission on ICT as a government rep
others who I do not know personally but who have also been mentioned in the APC
process:
- Ramesh Singh (Nepal), international directof of Action Aid International.
- Radhika Lal (india), UNDP
I am afraid I will be offline most of the week to finish a long overdue report,
so apologies if I cannot do much more...
best
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
To: <communication@wsisasia.org>
Cc: <chat@apcwomen.org>; <mavic@isiswomen.org>; <robsagun@consultant.com>;
<iza@anr.org>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:51 PM
Subject: [communication 1704] Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] TR: Global Alliance -
nominations
> Another nomination process, this time for the
> Global Alliance (see
> <http://www.unicttaskforce.org>)
>
> Two emails below explain everything. But, in
> summary, a multi-stakeholder Strategy Council is
> being created to help guide the new Global
> Alliance. The Strategy Council will have about 50
> members from all stakeholders: perhaps 15 or so
> members from civil society (15? I don't know, a
> guess!)
>
> Self nominations are encouraged, and individuals
> or groups can recommend people.
>
> Through the WSIS plenary, some civil society
> organizations will begin a nomination process
> similar to the one run for the IGF advisory group.
>
> Time is very short -- self nominations should be
> sent to the Alliance secretariat at
> <gaid-nominate@unicttaskforce.org> by May 10.
> Details on the UNICT Task Force website.
>
> There is more time (but not much more) for the CS process, see email below.
>
> Sarbuland Khan, UN DESA, is leading the
> nomination process. He particularly asked that
> civil society find representatives of Youth and
> Gender groups. I know the Youth caucus has begun
> its own nomination process. I think it would be
> helpful if the Asian Family endorsed any person
> from our region that the Youth caucus' nomination
> process selected. I don't know what the Gender
> groups are doing, but again, I think we should
> support anyone the region's Gender groups select.
>
> And I have an individual suggestion and request
> -- I intend to encourage Izumi Aizu to put his
> name forward and I hope this list will endorse
> Izumi's nomination. I think Izumi would be an
> ideal member of a group like the strategy
> council. He did a great job involving civil
> society in some of the regional WSIS processes,
> listens and provides feedback, and has experience
> working in similar global processes.
>
> I hope other people will show interest in joining
> the Strategy Council, but also hope the
> list/caucus will support Izumi.
>
> Disclosure: Izumi no longer works at GLOCOM, he
> is leading work at another non-profit institute
> in Japan. We work on a couple of projects
> together but not as GLOCOM colleagues.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
>
>