[Lac] New WSIS Youth Caucus Facilitator Selection Process

[Robert Guerra]

Aqui copia de un mensaje que se acaba de enviar a la lista del caucus 
de los jovenes.

>Date: 21 Jun 2004 10:05:39 -0000
>To: "rguerra at lists.privaterra.org" <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org>
>Subject: [wsisyouth] New WSIS Youth Caucus Facilitator Selection Process
>From: Nick Moraitis <nick at takingitglobal.org>
>Reply-To: wsisyouth at groups.takingitglobal.org
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>Hi everyone,
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>With Phase 2 of the WSIS Process about to get underway at a Prepcom in Tunis
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>this week, I want to let you know that I will no longer be the facilitator
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>of the WSIS Youth Caucus. I will still play an active role in the Caucus,
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>and policy around ICTs in general. And TIG will also continue to provide
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>logistical and staff support for youth engagement in ICT policy making with
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>our YCDO partners, to the extent that we can! But after two years with me as
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>the Caucus facilitator, it is very appropriate for someone else to take on
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>this important role! Over the next month, I want to handover the position by
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>coordinating a transparent and reinvigorating selection process to identify
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>a new Youth Caucus facilitator (or perhaps co-facilitators).
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>In the future, I want to focus my own efforts around WSIS almost entirely on
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>trying to raise funds for ongoing national-level campaigns and help manage
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>that project.
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>Someone else is required to: coordinate youth policy advocacy; follow the
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>WSIS process and other ICT negociations and ensure for space, recognition
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>and support for youth is provided; mobilize young people worldwide around
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>the international process, coordinate communications activities, liaise with
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>all other stakeholders, and develop toolkits and resources that help youth
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>get involved.
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>I propose the following timeline for this selection process:
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>20th - 25th of June
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>Members are invited to send feedback on the selection process to me. I will
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>incorporate suggestions where feasible, refining the process.
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>26th - 1st of July
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>The finalized process will be announced. We will start accepting
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>applications/nominations for a 'selection committee'.  Nominations should be
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>sent to the list. On the basis of our previous coordination roles, I propose
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>that Alex Fielding and I review applications for the selection committee,
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>and that we should also be members of it. The committee would be as small as
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>possible but should try and include at least one person from every region
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>(Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, North America, Middle East) and be
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>gender balanced.
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>1st July - 5th of July
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>Selection committee announced. Selection committee defines job description,
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>and criteria for the candidates, and creates an application form. See below
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>for some initial ideas on qualities we're looking for written by Adrian
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>Pintilie.
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>5th July - 15th of July
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>Accept applications and nominations for the position of Youth Caucus
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>Facilitator.
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>15th of July - 20th of July
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>Selection committee reviews candidates and ranks them with a grade against
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>the criteria. Selection committee has preferably a voice/phone conference
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>(if it is feasible considering cost) or an internet chat, and if necessary
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>also has short interviews with candidates by phone (they would join the
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>voice conference).
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>20th of July
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>New Youth Caucus Facilitator Announced. (If there are two candidates that
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>the selection committee believes would be mutually supportive, we might also
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>have 'co-facilitators', like several other UN Youth Caucuses).
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>20th July - 1st of August
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>Intensive knowledge transfer and training provided by myself and other
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>people who have been actively involved.
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>1st of August - person/people officially takes up role.
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>IMPORTANT!!
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>As you are very aware, the WSIS Youth Caucus is NOT just the facilitator. In
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>the last two years, at least 40 people on this list have held extremely
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>demanding, time consuming (quite often virtually full-time) and intensive
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>roles related to coordinating many many aspects of the WSIS Process and
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>youth involvement. Such as Gender, Websites, Regional Coordination, Lobbying
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>and Advocacy, National Level Campaigns, Publications and Books, the Youth
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>Hub space at WSIS, the Youth Awards, the YCDO Coalition, special workshops
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>and events -- and MUCH more. So much more.  In phase 2 of WSIS - and indeed
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>many broader ICT policy efforts we need to consider and be involved in,
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>there is still the need for MANY of these roles. What I loved MOST about
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>being the facilitator was that I truly did that.. I facilitated other people
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>to be involved, play leadership roles and develop cohesive projects as part
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>of a much bigger picture. A key question and first project of the new youth
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>caucus facilitator will need to be working with all on this list to develop
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>an appropriate structure and different types of responsibilities for members
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>of the Caucus in a very collaborative manner.
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>The Youth Caucus for WSIS so far has been a remarkable collaboration and has
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>achieved more in terms of a) direct policy input, b) coordinated
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>mobilization and c) amount of respect as a key grouping in a UN process,
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>than any of the many other UN policy processes I have been part of! This is
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>a new chapter and I hope you will play an important role in it and gain a
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>lot from it.
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>In addition, we hope that the Youth Caucus facilitator will once again be
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>complemented by a Youth Liaison at one of the secretariats at some point.
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>All the best,
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>Nick
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>These are some of the requirements for a new facilitator suggested in an
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>email to me by Adrian Pintilie (I hope you don't mind me sharing Adrian?):
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>"For the YC you need a person that:
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>- has good knowledge of the previous process (for continuity)
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>- has keen interest in ICT activities
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>- has a political view/understanding (because of the nature of the event)
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>- preferably took part in the first phase
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>- is as young as possible (as it will bring more visibility)
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>- skills to network, negotiate
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>- has time to do this professionally (you don't want some in one corner of
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>the world, doing these between two exams, or school and homework at home)
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>- has very good English skills, leadership and inter-cultural skills,
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>commitment and willingness to do more for the others than for him/herself
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>- is part of an organisation that is able to cover his/her costs
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>- etc"
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>Nick Moraitis
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>Strategic Development Coordinator
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>TakingITGlobal
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>http://about.takingitglobal.org
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>http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/nick
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>nick at takingitglobal.org
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