Nominations for the 2014 Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum

The undersigned organisations and individuals from civil society, who are participants in the Best Bits platform on Internet governance and Internet rights, submit this note in response to the Under-Secretary-General’s call for nominations for the IGF’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) for 2014.

In a period of open discussion on the Best Bits mailing list that took place between 12 and 29 November, nominations were called for and those nominations were discussed, with reference to a set of suggested criteria, namely:

• Must be active civil society participants
• Should be at least 2 from each of the 5 geographical regions if possible
• Should attempt to achieve gender balance
• Should include as much diversity as possible; e.g. for skill and knowledge set, age, disability, etc.
• Should include people who have shown commitment to keeping CS updated on developments
• Should be people who have shown some ability in advocacy with governments and the private sector in order to help achieve CS positions

In the course of discussions the nominations of new candidates Matthew Shears, Nnenna Nwakanma and Bertrand de la Chapelle have received affirmative support from the organisations and individuals below, whilst the renewal of the terms of Anriette Esterhuysen, Izumi Aizu and William Drake were also affirmatively supported.  This does not necessarily reflect on the candidacy for appointment or renewal of other civil society candidates not mentioned.

We therefore submit the above nominations for your consideration in the selection of the members of the 2014 MAG.

Organisational endorsements

7		Global Partners Digital	UK	Dec 03, 2013
6		Access		Dec 01, 2013
5		Colnodo	Colombia	Nov 29, 2013
4		Association for Progressive Communications (APC)	International	Nov 29, 2013
3		Internet Democracy Project	India	Nov 29, 2013
2		Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University, Delhi	India	Nov 29, 2013
1		Consumers International		Nov 29, 2013

Individual endorsements

3		Emma Reade	France	Nov 29, 2013
2		WOUGNET WOUGNET	Uganda	Nov 29, 2013
1		Roxana Laura Goldstein	Argentina	Nov 29, 2013