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<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 30, 2013 2:50 AM, "Valeria Betancourt" <<a href="mailto:valeriab@apc.org">valeriab@apc.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>+ 1</div><div><br></div><div>Valeria </div><br><div><div>On 29/11/2013, at 15:57, Nnenna Nwakanma wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Thanks Ian.<br>
<br></div>Letter looks fine. And thanks to the team for giving time to this.<br></div>Best to the nominees.<br><br></div>N<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Ian Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" target="_blank">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Calibri'"> <div>Please find a letter just send to Fadi Chehade under my signatory as an independent facilitator as regards civil society representation at this meeting in two weeks time.</div>
<div> </div> <div>Let me be the first to admit the process was imperfect, the result was imperfect. But so was the task we were given, the timeframe, the people involved in making the decision, and the facilitation process.</div>
<div> </div> <div>I can only say that there was widespread agreement we should submit names, and for the names submitted. And that doing and saying nothing would have been the alternative in this timeframe.</div> <div> </div>
<div> </div> <div>Ian Peter</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>29 November 2013</div> <div>RE: Civil Society Representation on High Level Panel in London</div> <div> </div> <div>Dear Fadi and Nora:</div> <div> </div> <div>
I am writing to you following from discussions held by a coalition of representatives of the</div> <div>civil society networks most involved in Internet governance deliberations, we appreciate your</div> <div>willingness to engage civil society in discussions regarding the future of Internet</div>
<div>governance. We also appreciate your recognition that civil society is under-represented on</div> <div>your High Level Panel and your willingness to accept additional civil society participants to</div> <div>this panel to provide more balance.</div>
<div>After consultations with our networks, we propose adding the following 2 civil society</div> <div>representatives to begin to balance against the much larger numbers from government, the</div> <div>private sector, and technical representatives placed on the initial panel.</div>
<div>Civil society’s two nominated representatives for the London High Level Panel are:</div> <div>1. Anriette Esterhuysen (<a href="mailto:anriette@apc.org" target="_blank">anriette@apc.org</a>)</div> <div>2. Milton Mueller (<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu" target="_blank">mueller@syr.edu</a>)</div>
<div>Would you please kindly confirm your acceptance of these names, and contact our</div> <div>representatives directly to arrange their participation?</div> <div>We also strongly recommend the involvement of Jovan Kurbalija of the Diplo Foundation as</div>
<div>a highly experienced and knowledgeable facilitator.</div> <div>We trust that in future we will be able to look at much more equitable representation of civil</div> <div>society in such panels and committees.</div> <div>
Persons involved with these deliberations and choice of names from various civil society</div> <div>networks were:</div> <div>Virginia Paque, Diplo Foundation</div> <div>Anriette Esterhuysen, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)</div>
<div>Robin Gross, ICANN's Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG)</div> <div>Norbert Bollow and Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro, Internet Governance Caucus (IGC)</div> <div>Jeremy Malcolm, Best Bits</div> <div>Signed,</div>
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