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<DIV>Just posted this response on Best Bits – also now here FYI</DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Just adding here a couple of perspectives
from my earlier phone call -</DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">The WEF representatives seem to be listening
and adapting at IGF – so I think this is still quite fluid. Yesterday it was
still NetMundial – I am personally glad they have moved away from that while
they figure out what this initiative is. </DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Also at my phone call they wanted to nominate
two of the four civil society reps themselves – a couple of US based NGOs they
work with regularly – this was identified as an issue and I am glad the CS reps
were able to get that changed today.</DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">They were also prepared to give us a more
reasonable deadline for nominations than originally intended – which would have
been the middle of next week! The timetable is still tight (by September
21), but is enough time for us to discuss our levels of involvement and get a
process under way at the end of this week. </DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">So there are some positive signs. Also the
level of CS representation – 4 of a committee of 15 – is quite reasonable.</DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">But I do get the feeling that things might
continue to change and that there is a great uncertainty about the degree to
which the staff assigned to this might be able to obtain strong WEF backing for
initiatives – and what those initiatives might be. </DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">I suspect others who are at IGF might get to
talk further with WEF, and those who were at the Geneva meeting might also have
additional perspectives. It would be good to share those perspectives here
and on other lists so that we can react appropriately.</DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Ian Peter</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=kichango@gmail.com
href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com">Mawaki Chango</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 02, 2014 6:30 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=governance@lists.igcaucus.org
href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">Internet Governance</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [governance] TIME-SENSITIVE: World Economic Forum and their
Initiative with Internet Governance</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 15px">Dear All,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">This Tuesday morning, in
Istanbul, the members of the Internet Governance Civil Society Coordination
Group attending the IGF2014 (Deirdre Williams standing in for Mawaki Chango from
the IGC, Jeremy Malcolm from Best Bits, Norbert Bollow from JNC, Chat Garcia
from APC and YJ Park as an observer; the others could not make it) met with Alan
Marcus, Danil Kerimi and Alexandra Shaw from the World Economic Forum about our
potential role in nominating representatives to the transitional steering
committee of what we had all known as the NETmundial Initiative. This
followed on from a phone call that the chair of our group, Ian Peter had had
with them yesterday Istanbul time.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">One of the first points
that was made in the meeting was that at the WEF they do not regard "NETmundial
Initiative" as the name of the initiative, although some of their early
champions (notably ICANN of course) have been calling it this. So it seems
that they will be willing to call it by another name from now on, and suggested
"Global Net" which is an anglicized version of NETmundial. Presumably,
many of us will warmly welcome this news.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Their description of
their vision of the initiative was otherwise mostly consistent with earlier
accounts, though they did stress that the formation of a new institution to
house the initiative now seems unlikely since they have been listening to
pushback about this. They see the initiative as a platform for working
groups to execute projects that the community has identified as important, and
the first four projects that were unveiled at the Geneva meeting were merely
intended as examples of four such projects that had been identified by the Ilves
Panel, on which some "quick wins" might be achieved.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The value add of the WEF,
they explained, is to bring in high-level participation from companies and
governments that are otherwise not part of Internet governance
discussions. The steering committee would include all stakeholders to
ensure that all perspectives have a voice about shaping the Initiative including
its projects. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black">They are
looking for a committee maximum size of about 15 people. The other members would
be 3-4 from each one of the following groups: business </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">(including at least two
representatives at CEO level)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black">,
government, intergovernmental organizations, tech community </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">(notably ISOC and
ICANN)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black"> and
academics. Please note: they confirmed their intention to treat academic
community separately to Civil Society or technical community or any other
grouping – as per NetMundial and 1net patterns.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The original conception
of WEF was that they would appoint half of the civil society representatives on
the transitional steering committee because they are project partners that WEF
has worked with before. Several members of our Coordination Group
suggested that their constituencies would probably push back against this, and
that if the purpose of the steering committee was in part to draw on the
legitimacy that civil society participation provides, it would make sense that
we be empowered to self-appoint all of our own representatives. WEF seemed
to accept this counsel, with the result that we would be asked to make four
appointments.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">They were unclear about
exactly what the time commitment for transitional steering committee
representatives would be, or exactly what the responsibilities would entail,
though forming an accountable permanent steering committee structure for launch
around the next Davos meeting (if possible) was one of the responsibilities
envisaged. They did assure us that if travel to meetings was required,
expenses would be paid for those who required this.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Criteria for appointment
are still to be discussed by the Coordination Group, but from WEF's perspective,
they agreed that they would not insist on a previous working relationship with
WEF as a criterion, but they would require that the participants are able to be
constructive and can work towards the formation of consensus. They said
that they would value people who can be bridge makers between the culture of the
WEF and that of our constituencies, because they acknowledged that they would
probably make (more) mistakes and would need help in correcting these.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black">WEF, after
our request, have extended our deadline to submit names till September 21 – and
there are still some details to finalize. The timetable CSCG is discussing would
see us begin a call for nominations probably no later than Friday – the last day
of IGF – to allow discussion and further clarification before we commence any
such process.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black">I am
posting this to begin such a discussion – others present at the meeting may want
to add comments of their own and discussions will also occur on other
lists.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Examples of previous
multi-stakeholder initiatives that they pointed to as being analogous to
The-Initiative-Formerly-Known-as-NETmundial included Grow Africa (<A
href="http://growafrica.com/" target=_blank>http://growafrica.com/</A>) and
their climate change work (<A
href="http://www.weforum.org/issues/climate-change-and-green-growth"
target=_blank>http://www.weforum.org/issues/climate-change-and-green-growth</A>).
The News Release from the live event launching the initiative can be found here:
<A
href="http://www.weforum.org/news/new-initiative-internet-governance-live-event?news=page">http://www.weforum.org/news/new-initiative-internet-governance-live-event?news=page</A></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Warm regards,</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif"><BR></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black">Mawaki
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; FONT-SIZE: small"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: black">IGC
Co-coordinator</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"></SPAN> </P></DIV></DIV>
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