Hi everyone, It seems like this readout from our tactical breakout session at Best Bits might be helpful to others working in this space. Does anyone object to sharing the readout with others as appropriate in discussions on advocacy around WCIT?<div>
Deborah<br><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Brett Solomon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brett@accessnow.org" target="_blank">brett@accessnow.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">TACTICAL BREAKOUT Session</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Best Bits Civil Society meeting
in Baku (November 3-4)</span><br><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"></span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Below you will find the key strategic and
tactical initiatives that were discussed at the breakout session. The document is separated into three sections: between
now and WCIT; during WCIT; and post WCIT. This is not a consensus document, rather a collation of ideas /strategies that were proposed by individuals at the session. All are invited to be involved in any of the actions below</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial">1. Between now and WCIT</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">a. Issue: Lack of civil society membership on
delegations</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">It’s important for civil society to be present
at WCIT even if we can’t be on the floor, to craft statements, convene breakfast
meetings, suggest draft language, be a resource to government reps and keep
them in line</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Actions:</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Identify
countries that are amenable to civil society membership </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Find
funding for civil society delegates to attend WCIT (we know that Global
Partners, Internews, and Mozilla all have funding for this)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Prepare
briefing materials for delegates to help them identify key/likely issues
and potential approaches to draft language/responses</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Consider
attending as unaffiliated civil society if we can’t get on a delegation
(it is useful to have a critical mass of unaffiliated civil society in
Dubai)</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Who has civil society on their delegation (that we know about)?:</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"> UK, Sweden, US, Germany, Bangladesh, Canada, Australia</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Who
could be open to having civil society participation on their delegation:</span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"> Argentina, Uruguay, Kenya, Colombia, Brazil, Finland, Norway,
Netherlands, India, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, New Zealand, Senegal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">b. Issue: Influencing national positions prior
to WCIT</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">National positions are not yet set - there is
still opportunity to influence how countries will vote.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Actions</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Continue
to request opportunities to participate in national consultations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Place
opinion pieces in national publications to influence/represent public
opinion</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Use
FFTF/Access video to spread awareness and create noise. It will be found at <a href="http://www.whatistheitu.org/" target="_blank">http://www.whatistheitu.org/</a><br></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Push
<span>govts on open up to civil society
and press</span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">c. Issue: Using the IGF to influence the 90 governments in
attendance</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Actions:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">All
civil society at IGF should be using the opportunity to push member states
present to keep IG out of the ITRs</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Ask
questions at every panels, approach informally etc, hand over materials,
this will also help to ensure that this gets mentioned in the IGF outcome
doc</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial">2. During WCIT</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
<br>
<b><u><span></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">a. Issue: Coordination
among civil society during WCIT</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Create a community of empowered civil society
advocates at WCIT; and coordinate with non-affiliated CS; note that those on delegations are limited in their capacity to act and this will need to be respected</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Actions:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Create
a Skype group or some other means for delegates to chat informally to
check in on policy developments with folks back home and coordinate
amongst civil society in Dubai</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Develop
ideal treaty language been drafted basically on what we want to see
included / not included</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Ensure
that civil society that are there all know each other in advance and can
coordinate</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Reach out to technical community who will be in
the room and coordinate during the WCIT </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext">(eg </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">ISOC, LACNIC, APNIC,)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Coordinate
among civ soc that are affiliated with delegates and those that are
unaffiliated </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Identify
potential unaffiliated delegates (whose participation will be voted on on
Day 1). It is worthwhile for independent civil society to go even if they
can’t get on a del - this role is needed. Potential unaffiliated
delegates:</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:45.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"><span> </span>US/UK - Matthew Shears (confirmed?)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:45.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Africa - Mawaki Chango?;
Jimson Olufuye? </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:45.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Asia-Pacific - Pranesh</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:45.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Latin America/ Caribbean
– Brazil? (Marilia Maciel)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:45.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Russia/RCC</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:45.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Europe</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:45.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Arab States </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:45.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">b. Issue: Reporting to outside world what is
going on in the WCIT</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span></u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Create communications mechanisms to ensure that
those outside of the WCIT are kept in touch and able to mobilize.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Actions: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Encourage member states to vote to open sessions to the public and
to live stream on UN WebTV.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Create a media kit and collate the media contacts prior to the
event. Identify foreign correspondents in the UAE or going to Dubai for WCIT
and target them by writing to major outlets ahead of time.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Post a daily blog post/WCIT Watch reporting on the biggest
issues/worst proposals/biggest challenges for civil society of the day (given
the limitations on speaking to the press that people on delegations will face,
this is a very important role for unaffiliated civil society will play)</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Unaffiliated civil society may want to consider getting press
accreditation (this was a useful tactic at WSIS and among other things allowed
for greater access to some documents)</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:22.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Release a civil society statement on closing of event, to help
shape the media narrative (the lasting story will be determined within a few
hours of the last plenary adopting the final acts) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">c. Issue: Devil is in the detail</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">The language agreed upon will be changed during
WCIT and we may need to have some creative actions</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Should we consider a CS walkout if needed – OR even better a
walk-in?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Find a cartoonist or infographic artist who can produce visuals
for each day </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">WCIT Watch daily briefing should be printed out and put in WCIT
café and given to press</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Livetweeting and #hashtag</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Mobilize the internet to create actions including a internet
blackout style digital action</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Having a group of dedicated civil society actors
in other time zones (who will ostensibly be more awake) to help review late
night text changes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Based on reports at the African IGF, it sounds like
there will be regional bloc negotiations on proposed revisions to the ITRs, and
it’s possible that unaffiliated civil society members may be allowed into these
meetings. Should find out which regional blocs would be amenable to this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial">3. Post WCIT </span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
<br>
<b><u><span></span></u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">a. <b><u>Issue:
WCIT is not the end of the line</u></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">WCIT is one step on the pathway; and we need to
be prepared for the next steps including WTPF, WTSA, ITU plenipot, WSIS +10,
etc.</span><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><br>
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</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"></span></u></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Messaging: We will also be at all those other meetings, so don't
think you can kick the can down the road. Warn governments we are watching them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">We must educate civil society about post-WCIT challenges and
position ourselves best in relation in these negotiations in the future and not
prejudice ourselves in other contexts</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">WTPF: There have been
reports that the topic of the WTPF will be internet governance. While WTPF does
not result in a treaty, but contributes to norm building, but it is unclear how
receptive SG is to comment from non-Sector Members</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">WSIS +10 evaluation in
UNESCO (Feb) and ITU (2014). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Renewal of mandate of IGF is in 2015 will be a pure decision by
UNGA – this is a big concern</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Get free ITU membership AFTER WCIT
(ahead of WTPF) – all groups should consider this </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial">Need to clearly develop a position on - If not ITU, then who? A
literature review of current perspectives on a positive reform agenda would be
useful.</span></p><span><font color="#888888">
<p><br><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">
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