Dear Kawamura-san/Hiroshi
Many thanks for alerting us about this. (I took the liberty of pasting all
the names below for easy reference.)
I also share your disappointment with the fact that civil society makes up
only 1/6 of this council, and that not many Asians made the list,
particularly from the developing world...
Maybe it should have been expected, given how this whole thing has been
handled:
- the lack of significant information (the overall process and
particularly its decision-making is very vague and opaque)
- the lack of broad-based participation (the so-called "nomination
process" was only apprently a way to appear consultative and to legitimize
what seems to me a very private process)
- and even the lack of efficient organization (it is only a week before
the KL meeting and informed now), it does not give me much hope...
In any case, congratulations to you--and to the only other CS Asian on the
list, Bazlur Rahman of BNNRC, who I think is also on this list. Regardless
of our disappointments, we will continue to support you and hope even in
small numbers progressive people within the GAID SC can make a difference.
best
Al
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from: http://www.un-gaid.org/council/council.html
Strategy Council
The Strategy Council, comprising 60 members representing Governments and
non-governmental stakeholders - civil society, the private sector,
international organizations, media, academia, youth and women's groups and
others - will provide overall strategic guidance to the Alliance, in
particular by identifying priorities and themes to be addressed.
CIVIL SOCIETY (10)
1. Kamel Ayadi, President, World Fed. of Engineering Associations
(Tunisia)
2. Rodrigo Baggio, Executive Director, Committee for Democracy in
Information Technology (Brazil)
3. Peter Bruck, President, World Summit Award (Austria)
4. Astrid Dufborg, Executive Director, GeSCI
5. Hiroshi Kawamura, Daisy Consortium, (Japan)
6. Janet Langmore, President, Digital Opportunity Trust (Canada)
7. Tracey Naughton, Media Caucus (S. Africa/Australia)
8. Bazlur Rahman, CEO, NGOs Network for Radio and Communication
(Bangladesh)
9. Lynn St. Amour, President/CEO, Internet Society
10. Lynn M. Wanyeki, Executive Director, FEMNET (Kenya)
PRIVATE SECTOR (It mistakenly says "not-for-profit")- (10)
1. John Chambers / Art Reilly, CISCO
2. Guy-Olivier Segond, President, Digital Solidarity Fund
3. Michael Nelson, IBM
4. Asadullah Shah, International Commission on Workforce Development
5. Khalid Juffali, Vice Chairman, E.A. Juffali and Brothers Co.
6. Pamela Passman, Microsoft
7. Eisa al-Eisa, SAMBA Financial Group
8. Thomas Ganswind / Peter Hellmonds, Siemens
9. Carlo Ottaviani / Elena Pistorio STMicroelectronics Foundation
10. Anne Cobb, President Visa International CEMEA
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (10)
1. FAO
2. ILO
3. Inter-Parliamentary Union
4. OECD
5. Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
6. United Nations: DESA, UNCTAD, DPI, OCHA, UNFIP, Regional Commissions
7. UNDP
8. UNESCO
9. WHO
10. World Bank
GOVERNMENTS (30)
1. Azerbaijan
2. Bangladesh
3. Brazil
4. Canada
5. China
6. Cuba
7. Dominican Republic
8. Egypt
9. Ethiopia
10. Finland
11. France
12. Germany
13. Ghana
14. India
15. Indonesia
16. Ireland
17. Italy
18. Kenya
19. Republic of Korea
20. Kyrgystan
21. Mauritania
22. Mexico
23. Pakistan
24. Russia
25. Samoa
26. Senegal
27. South Africa
28. Tanzania
29. Tunisia
30. European Commission
> Dear Al and all:
>
> I was also wondering the result of nomination and followed the link
> provided
> by the attached e-mail from Serge Kapto, then finally I found the result:
> http://www.un-gaid.org/council/council.html
>
> Although I found myself on the list of Strategy Council members, the
> result
> was not officially informed to me till now.
> In addition, the result shows that out of 60 members of the Council, only
> 10
> are from Civil Society. Government 30, private and "not-for-profit" 10,
> and
> International Organizations 10, are nominated respectively.
> It is far different from my and, I believe, civil society's expectation of
> 1/3 of the share of the Council. As a result, I could not find many
> important civil society players listed on the nominee's list.
>
> Best
>
> Hiroshi Kawamura
> WSIS CS Disability Focal Point
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Alegre" <alalegre@fma.ph>
> To: "wsis-asia" <communication@wsisasia.org>
> Cc: <psis-cs@fma.ph>; "Lallana, Boying CICT" <lallana@ncc.gov.ph>
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:40 PM
> Subject: [communication 1721] Fw: [GAID Nomination] Thank you for
> submitting
> a nomination to the Global AllianceStrategyCouncil
>
>
>> Some info that came in this week, updating us on the Global Alliance...
>> Seems a bit strange though, that less than 10 days before the KL
>> meeting,
>> no
>> names have been announced (except for the Chair--the head of Intel)...
>>