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NIce summary Jeremy! and a short timeline to decide on what appears
to me to be a very unclear initiative. I would add that although
there was a specific box on the interface to ask questions, noone
else appears to have been able to see the questions others were
asking, and noone who I have talked to had their questions
asked/answered in the Q&A period. Also just to note that there
appear to have been 166 people participating, which is a pretty good
turnout for a webinar that conflicted with a number of other
initiatives we are all engaged in.<br>
cheers Stephanie Perrin<br>
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<div class="">I attended the NETmundial phone conference this
morning, interested to find out what had changed since the
previous launch in August, which had drawn criticism not only
from civil society but more broadly. <br>
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The NETmundial Initiative is presented as not being a
centralised organisation but rather a platform to support
distributed governance of the Internet. It brings together
"Enablers" (currently CGI.br, ICANN and WEF) and proposed
"Solutions". The solutions can be contributed by anyone in
crowdsourcing fashion, and can invite partnerships or calls for
assistance. The focus of the Initiative is on mapping what
already exists, and on developing solutions where there are
gaps.<br>
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There have been some changes since what was presented in August,
mainly to de-emphasise the role of the WEF, which now notionally
has its own separate but parallel Internet initiative. However
WEF will continue to enjoy a permanent seat on the NETmundial
Initiative's Coordination Council, and contrary to previous
indications, the name of the initiative will not be changed to
remove the reference to "NETmundial". This is because the
NETmundial Principles are meant to be the foundation for the
Initiative's work (I questioned whether this meant that those
Principles are set in stone, and received an equivocal response
that the Initiative might work on evolving them if someone
proposed this.)<br>
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The Coordination Council will contain 25 members, 5 of which are
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the I* group, and the IGF MAG. Note: no permanent seat for
civil society, except through CGI.br and the IGF. The other 20
members will be distributed across four stakeholder groups which
are (1) academia, the technical community and foundations, (2)
civil society, (3) governments and intergovernmental
organisations, and (4) the private sector - and across all
geographical regions.<br>
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There was much emphasis on how "bottom up" this initiative is,
which drew skeptical responses in the webconference chat room.
Although they did invite the stakeholder groups to nominate
their own representatives, ultimately ICANN, WEF and CGI.br
together reserved the right to decide between them if too many
nominations were received. (From civil society's point of view,
we would aim, if we are to nominate candidates at all, to do so
centrally through our IG Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG)
in order to avoid giving WEF that power.)<br class="">
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Nominations are due within a month, so we really need to decide
within a week whether we intend to participate at all, and if so,
to proceed to a nomination process through the CSCG.<br>
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