Dear Friends,

Please find below the list of suggested nominees to be delivered to the ITU for their consideration for the various speaking slots in Tunis, as compiled by the selection committee which met until very late last night. For your recollection, at the Plenary Session yesterday morning, you approved of a selection committee to narrow down the list of applicants composed of the following individuals:
•	1 representative from each regional group
•	1 representative of the CS Content and Themes
•	1 representative of the CS Bureau 
•	1 representative of the WSIS Executive Secretariat in an advisory capacity

The Committee worked hard to achieve several “balances” including regional, gender, age, linguistic, and thematic.  We also worked hard to make sure that all caucuses and working groups that proposed names had at least one of their nominations included.  You see here the regional and gender breakdown of the nominees:

Opening Ceremony
•	Gender: man (1) /  woman (1)
•	Geographical Balance: Europe (1): Germany; Africa (1): Mali

High Level Panel
•	Geographical Balance: Africa (2): Kenya, Senegal; Asia (3): Thailand, Philippines, India
•	Gender balance : Women (3) / Men (2)

 Round Tables
•	Geographical Balance: Africa (1) : Senegal; Asia (4) : India, Japan, Philippines (2); North America (1); Europe (4) : France, Germany (2), Russian Federation
•	Gender balance : Women (4) / Men (6)

Plenary
•	Geographical Balance: Africa (9): Cameroon (1); Guinea (1); Kenya (2); Nigeria (1) ; Tunisia (3); South Africa (1); Zambia (1); Americas (3):    Brazil (1), United States (2); Asia (4): Bangladesh (1), India (1), Iran (1), Philippines (1); Europe (3): Ireland (1), France (2), United Kingdom (1)  
•	Gender balance : Women (10) / Men (12)

There were many wonderful nominations, and narrowing down the list was a very difficult and painful task.  However we feel confident that the current list is a good one that we hope meets with your approval.

Sincerely,

Rik Panganiban
On Behalf of the Selection Committee

Name	Nominated by Caucus/WG/Family	Accredited Organization (title)	Country	
Opening Ceremony
	
Adama Samassekou	Youth Caucus, 
Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Family, NGOs Community family, Scientific information WG	 	Mali	
Renate Bloem	NGO Community
Philanthropic Institutions	CONGO, President 	Germany	

High Level Panel
	
Monthian Buntan	Disability Caucus	(President, Thailand Association of the Blind)	Thailand	
Pape Diouf 	Caucus Africain	DAPSI Diaspora Africaine pour la Société de l’Information (President)	Senegal	
Florence Etta	Telecentres Caucus	(Kenya ICT Policy Project) 	Kenya	
Concepcion Garcia-Ramilo	Asia-Pacific Caucus	APC - Association for Progressive Communications (Global Coordinator, Womens’ Networking Support Programme)	Philippines	
Anita Gurumurthy	Gender Caucus	IT for Change (executive director, economist, phd)	India	

Round Tables
	
Izumi Aizu
	Asia-Pacific Caucus	GLOCOM - Center for Global Communications (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for HyperNetwork Society, International University of Japan)	Japan	
Alan Alegre
	Asia-Pacific Caucus	(Foundation for Media Alternatives) 	Philippines	
Kenneth Deer  	Indigenous family	Indigenous World Association (Representative)	Canada	
Bertrand de la Chapelle	NGO community family	Wsis-online.net (Director)	France	
Pape Diouf	Cities and Local Authorities Caucus	DAPSI - Diaspora Africaine pour la Société de l’Information (President)	Senegal	
Tatiana Ershova 	Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Family	(Director General, Institute of the Information Society) 	Russian Federation	
Concepcion Garcia-Ramilo	Asia-Pacific Caucus	APC (Global Coordinator, Womens’ Networking Support Programme)	Philippines	
Anita Gurumurthy	Gender Caucus	IT for Change (executive director, economist, phd)	India	
Jeanette Hofmann	NGO community family	Heinrich Boell Foundation (Researcher)	Germany	
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter	Philantropic Institutions	University of Aarhus (Professor, Intl Association for Media & Communications Research)	Germany	

Plenary	
	Nominee	Family 	NGO	Country	
1	Barry, Boubacar	Caucus Africain	ENTIS, Executive  Secretary	Guinea	
2	Ben Jemaa, Tijani	Science and Technology	WFEO - World Federation of Engineering Organizations (Vice Chairman of CIC)	Tunisia	
3	Ben Marzouk, Mohamed Elyes	Caucus Arab	Organization Tunisienne de Jeunes Medecins sqns Frontieres (President)	Tunisia	
4	Davies, Simon	CS Privacy and Security WG	(Director, Privacy International)	United Kingdom	
5	Esterhuysen, Anriette	IG Caucus	APC - Association for Progressive Communications (Executive Director)	South Africa	
6	Etta, Florence	Telecentres Caucus	(Kenya ICT Policy Project)	Kenya	
7	Faidutti, Bruna	Human Rights Caucus	WFUNA - World Association of United Nations Associations	United States/Italy	
8	Frau-Meigs, Divina	Education , Research and Academia	IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research (Vice-president)	France	
9	Jeet   Singh, Parminder	West-Asia Region	IT For Change, Executive Director	India	
10	Khemakhem, Jameleddine	Child Rights Caucus	ATUDE - Association tunisienne des droits de l'enfant	Tunisia	
11	Krebs,Viola	Volunteer Family	ICV - International Conference Volunteers (director)	Switzerland	
12	Lohento, Ken		(PANOS)	Nigeria	
13	Muguet, Francis	Scientific Information WG	Global Knowledge Partnership (member)	Franace	
14	Nana, Delphine	Caucus Africain	CEFEPROD - Centre féminin pour la promotion du développement (Coordinatrice Générale)	Cameroon	
15	Njenga, Emmanuel	Caucus Africain	APC	Kenya	
16	Pazello, Magaly	Gender Caucus	DAWN Network (DAWN focal point for WSIS)	Brazil	
17	Sagun, Robert	Youth Caucus	SchoolNet Africa (WSIS Yc Policy Coordinator)	Philippines	
18	Sarker, Partha	Asia Regional Caucus, Telecentres Caucus	APC - Association for Progressive Communications (co-founder, Bytes for All)	Bangladesh	
19	Stalman, Richard	PCT group	(Free Sowftware Fundation)	United States	
20	Tahmasebi, Susan	West-Asia Region	ICTRC - Iranian Civil Society Organizations Training and Research Center	Iran	
21	White, Aidan	Media Caucus	International Federation of Journalists (Secretary General)	Ireland	
22	Zulu, Brenda	Media Caucus	APC - Association for Progressive Communications (Content Person)	Zambia