Rik Panganiban circulated this list of proposed speakers at Tunis, based on all of the nominations submitted by the caucuses.

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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