<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all, </div><div><br></div><div>Please find below a brief write up from the meeting between the Brazilian delegation at the IGF and many members of international civil society. Please excuse the delay in sending these notes out. The meeting was conducted mostly in Portuguese so it was necessary to compare notes, which was complicated by travel schedules.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For others who attended the meeting, please feel to add/correct anything below.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards, <br>Deborah </div><div><br></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-4ffa9fc0-1472-a377-58de-c05c5078432b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notes from Meeting with the Brazilian Delegation at the IGF, October 22, 2013</span></p>
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</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Leading the meeting from the Brazilian delegation: <b>Paulo Bernardo Silva </b>(Minister of Communications), <b>Virgilio Almeida</b> (Secretary for Information Technology Policy for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation), and <b>Benedicto Fonseca Filho</b> (Director of the Department of Scientific and Technological Themes Ministry of External Relations). Other members of the Brazilian delegation and the CGI.br participated in the meeting as well.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For a list of attendees from civil society please see: <a href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/Brazilian_Del_mtg-_Expression_of_interest">https://pad.riseup.net/p/Brazilian_Del_mtg-_Expression_of_interest</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[Note this list represents individuals who signed up to attend the meeting, not necessarily who was in the room.]</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Proposals from civil society</u> [as delivered by Marilia Maciel, FGV-CTS]</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An open the process for consultation prior to the summit</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inclusion of civil society during the summit and in the decision-making</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Inclusion of civil society in the steering committee with representatives of its own choosing </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Opening remarks by Minister Paulo Bernardo Silva</u></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It was not Brazil’s idea to hold a summit, we were approached by Fadi to have the summit and working out ways to hold it.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We don’t have much time to hold consultations, it’s next year, and it’s not to be promoted by the Brazilian government or by ICANN.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It’s a great idea to have a public consultations but it’s a legitimacy problem because Brazil is not running it and ICANN isn’t running it. We also don’t know what other countries think</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We could give this task to CGI.br. This is an idea.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As part of the consultation you [civil society] could give us concrete proposals. This is the type of group we want to be speaking with. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Other points from Brazilian delegation</u> [primarily Virgilio and Benedicto]: </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This event is not meant to compete with the IGF. It is a one-time meeting for input from all stakeholders with concrete suggestions.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The intention is to respect all existing processes, the High Level WSIS meeting in Sharm el Sheikh, the CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, etc. Those are processes Brazil has been involved in and doesn’t want to compete with. In particular the Brazil Summit should not be seen as giving less importance to the IGF. The outcome from WSIS High Level meeting and WGEC will have a very significant impact the summit.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At this point, the summit has two very clear purposes/themes:</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To follow up on Dilma’s UN speech, which called for an international civil framework by working around principles she mentioned. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Engaging the in the exercise to internationalize ICANN (according to the Montevideo statement). Brazil cherishes multistakeholder nature of ICANN, but it lacks internationality. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other things may come up, but at least those two themes are there. </span></p></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ICANN is only a small part of the topics Brazil wants to discuss at the summit. The topics covered by ICANN are not related to the motivations that brought this summit. It will not limited to topics related to ICANN. They are one of the participants, agenda is much broader than that. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brazil thinks it should pursue a different organization of this conference, as compared to the Seoul meeting, wants a broad process for constructing the agenda. They said they feel they should also focus on outcomes from the beginning, and not leave that to the summit itself. Consulting on outcomes should also be an inclusive process. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More information from Brazil will be made available on November 11. </span></p></li></ul><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The following people were identified as civil society liaisons with the Brazilian government for the planning for the summit: Joana Varon (FGV/CTS) Carolina Rossini (NAF), Laura Tresca (Article 19), and Carlos Afonso (Nupef) </span></span><br clear="all">
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