Hello all
For those not on the WSIS plenary list where this was released, here is
the result of the Nomination Committee process for the Global Alliance
Strategy Council...
The list of 21 nominees includes 5 Asians (2 South Asians, 1 Southeast
Asian, 1 West Asian, 1 East Asian), from what i can see:
Al-Shatti, Qusai (Kuwait Information Technology Society, Kuwait)
Bazlur Rahman, AHM (Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication,
Bangladesh)
Gurumurthy, Anita (IT For Change, India)
Kawamura, Hiroshi (Daisy Consortium, Japan)
Sagun, Robert (Philippine Resources for Sustainable Development, Inc., The
Philippines)
Congratulations to those nominated and although we are not sure how much
weight will be put into this list when the UN finally picks, let us hope
for the best and also hope that the nominees will advance the interest of
civil society and ICT4D as a whole...
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Subject: [CS Bureau] CS Nom Com selection for the Global Alliance Strategy
Council From: "CONGO - Philippe Dam" <wsis@ngocongo.org>
Date: Mon, May 22, 2006 21:31
To: plenary@wsis-cs.org
bureau@wsis-cs.org
Cc: "'Philippe Dam'" <philippe.dam@ngocongo.org>
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Dear all,
The CS Nom Com has finalized today the selection process of the
recommendation for CS membership in the Global Alliance Strategy Council.
We took some more time over the week end to conclude our work, with the OK
from the UN DESA. I am going to write a letter to Sergei Kambalov which
will be sent today, with the criteria we used and the bio of the
recommended nominees.
We decided to include 21 recommended candidates in our list:
• Akinsanmi, Titilayo (Schoolnet Africa, South Africa/Nigeria)
• Al-Shatti, Qusai (Kuwait Information Technology Society, Kuwait)
• Ayadi, Kamel (World Federation of Engineering Organizations
(WFEO), Tunisia)
• Bazlur Rahman, AHM (Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and
Communication, Bangladesh)
• Bissio, Roberto (Social Watch, Uruguay)
• Bloem, Renate (Conference of NGOs, Switzerland)
• Burch, Sally (Agencia Latinoamericana de InformaciÏ)
• Diouf, Papa Ndiaye (DAPSI, Senegal/Switzerland)
• GáÔpáÓ, MáÕyáÔ (European Union of Telecottage Associations,
Hungary)
• Gurstein, Michael (Global Telecentre Alliance, Canada)
• Gurumurthy, Anita (IT For Change, India)
• HéÌansson, Ann-Kristin (Indigenous Peoples Caucus on WSIS)
• Kawamura, Hiroshi (Daisy Consortium, Japan)
• KleinwçÄhter, Wolfgang (IAMCR, Germany/Denmark)
• Morrell, Claudia (Center for Women and Information Technology,
USA)
• Muthoni Wanyeki, Lynn (FEMNET, Kenya)
• Naughton, Tracey (Media Caucus, South Africa / Australia)
• Pimienta, Daniel (FUNREDES, Republica Dominicana)
• Pineda, Magaly (Center for Feminist Resarch and Action
(CIPAF), Dominican Republic)
• Primo, Natasha Lee (Women'sNet, South Africa)
• Sagun, Robert (Philippine Resources for Sustainable
Development, Inc., The Philippines)
I would like to warmly thank the 5 Nom Com members for their time and
commitment, and I hope you will join me in this regard. It was actually an
extremely difficult task to narrow down the 63 nominations under
consideration, since many of them were extremely valuable (the list of
nominees is still available on line:
http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news
<http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=news&id=10220> &id=10220).
Note that these 21 recommendations are done in the personal capacity of
the candidates, and that the UN SG will take the final decision as regards
the actual members of the Strategy Council of the Global Alliance.
Best,
Philippe