<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Thank you Marilia! </div><div><div id="MAC_OUTLOOK_SIGNATURE"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div><b><i><font color="#009193">Vanda Scartezini</font></i></b></div><div><b><i><font color="#009193">Polo Consultores Associados</font></i></b></div><div><b><i><font color="#009193">Av. 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You will find an article I wrote on NETmundial Initiative and an article from Stephanie Perrin with an excellent overview ICANN's WHOIS policy discussions. <br></font><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.orfonline.org/cms/export/orfonline/html/cyber/Cyber-Monitor09.pdf">http://www.orfonline.org/cms/export/orfonline/html/cyber/Cyber-Monitor09.pdf</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">I also take the opportunity to invite you to participate in two sessions that will be held by the NETmundial Initiative during the IGF (schedule is still in draft form):</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-size:13px">Open, Informal Council Meeting</div><div style="font-size:13px">Date: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">Monday, 9 November</span></span> (DAY 0) </div><div style="font-size:13px">Time: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">09:00-13:00</span></span><br>Room: Workshop Room 3</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Open Forum<br>Date: Wednesday, 11 November (DAY 2) <br>Time: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">17:00</span></span>-<span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">18:00</span></span></div><div style="font-size:13px">Room: Workshop Room 10 </div></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">All the best wishes,</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Marília</font></div><div><br></div><div><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Mapping the NETmundial Initiative </font></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">Marília Maciel<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class=""><span class="">[1]</span></span></a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">The NETmundial Initiative (NMI) is a
platform for collaboration among stakeholders that aims to improve synergy and coordination
in the Internet Governance ecosystem, in cooperation with existing
organizations. The Initiative significantly derives its name and core mission from
NETmundial – the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet
Governance – held in April 2014, in Brazil. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">NETmundial was organized by the Brazilian
Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) with the support of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It was convened by the
government of Brazil in the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s revelations of mass
surveillance. One of the goals of NETmundial was to restore a positive
governance environment that would foster trust and cooperation to face common
challenges. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">NETmundial was
explicitly aimed at addressing two problems: the need to identify a set of
universally acceptable Internet governance principles and the need to propose a
way forward for the evolution of the Internet governance institutional ecosystem. Both
issues were tackled in the NETmundial outcome document, which embodies a rough
consensus across stakeholder groups. Dissenting voices were few, albeit vocal.
Article 19 raised concerns that privacy and net neutrality were not adequately
addressed, on behalf of some civil society organizations. Among countries,
Russia, India and Cuba expressed their reservations.<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class=""><span class="">[1]</span></span></a>
This public divergence seemed to have driven further apart countries that
pursued alliances in the past, such as India and Brazil, and showed some of the
difficulties in articulating political alliances among the BRICS nations. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">On a substantive
level, NETmundial’s outcome document represents several achievements. It placed
human rights as the cornerstone of the Internet governance ecosystem, it
supported distributed mechanisms of governance, it emphasized the importance of
enhancing both democratic and multistakeholder participation, and it ultimately
represents progress towards public interest-driven Internet governance. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">After
NETmundial, ICANN, the World Economic Forum and CGI.br decided to work together
in order to carry forward the spirit of collaboration that emerged in São Paulo
and to make sure the outcome document became a reference point for global
discussions. These were the three founding organizations of the NETmundial
Initiative. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">The
creation of NMI was not free of criticism. While some argued that NMI represented
a takeover of Internet Governance by business interests, others believed that
it represented a move towards centralization and mistook it for a “UN security
council of the Internet”. There was also fear that NMI would compete with
existing organizations, such as the Internet Governance Forum. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">In the
midst of controversy, the NMI coordinating council was appointed, consisting of
a group of 25 representatives from different stakeholder groups. The political
weight of the council is indisputable. The Minister of Cyberspace of China, Mr.
Lu Wei, shares a sit on the table with the US Secretary of Commerce, Mrs. Penny
Pritzker, with representatives of companies, such as Telefonica and Alibaba
group, and with reputed civil society and academic organizations, such as the
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Human Rights Watch. The
multistakeholder composition of the council strengthened the legitimacy of NMI,
however, some resistance to the Initiative still persists, albeit less
embattled.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">The first
task of the coordinating council was to define the mission and scope of the
NMI, enshrined in its terms of reference. In a nutshell, the Initiative aims to
catalyze cooperation among
stakeholders in order to advance the implementation of the NETmundial
Principles and Roadmap. This mission can be accomplished in different ways. For
instance, NMI aims to serve as a clearinghouse for the collection and
dissemination of information about Internet governance as well as to provide a
platform on which diverse actors can present projects, solicit partners and
establish collaboration. Both goals are being accomplished with the creation of
the NETmundial solutions map – which identifies clusters of policy related
Internet issues and correlates them with relevant actors, documents and
processes –, and with the upcoming launch of the NETmundial collaboration
platform, which will host project proposals. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">The inaugural meeting of NMI took place
in June, in São Paulo. It was a remarkable experience of multistakeholder
interaction. Those who watched the webcast of the meeting were able to witness
a lively debate between the Chinese Minister of Cyberspace and the
representative of the Human Rights Watch over online activism and the
protection of human rights. They could also see Internet tycoons from China and
Africa discussing the inclusion of young people in the job market. The less
formal environment of the council allows for interactions that would never take
place under the formality of the United Nations. This could help to create
channels for fruitful and pragmatic dialogue.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">In December 2015, a UN high-level meeting
will be held to assess the progress made in the ten years that followed the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). One of the key points emerging
from the preparatory discussions is that, at least on the level of discourse,
most countries give support to the idea of a multistakeholder Internet
governance. China mentioned it in several occasions. India’s IT Minister, Ravi
Shankar, supported the multistakeholder approach during his speech in the 54<sup>th</sup>
ICANN meeting. The path towards convergence seems less cloudy, including among
BRICS. In this scenario, the way to concretely implement multistakeholder
collaboration will probably be the key dispute in the upcoming years.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000">The NETmundial Initiative allows the
chance to experiment with new models of collaboration. NMI’s solution-driven
approach, made possible by the environment of trust and openness that is being
built in the coordinating council, may provide a breath of fresh air. It can
pave the way for the implementation of the NETmundial outcome document, a
remarkable result of multistakeholder dialogue and participation.</font></p><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><br clear="all"></font><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"><div id="ftn1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class=""><span class="">[1]</span></span></a> <i>See </i>Transcripts of NETmundial closing
session, April 24, 2014, <a href="http://netmundial.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/NETMundial-23April2014-Closing-Session-en.pdf">http://netmundial.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/NETMundial-23April2014-Closing-Session-en.pdf</a>.</font></p></div></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><br clear="all"></font><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%"><div id="edn1"><p class="" style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class=""><span class="">[1]</span></span></a> Ms Marília Maciel is a researcher
and coordinator of the Center for Technology and Society of the Rio de Janeiro
Law School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV). She is one of the five
co-chairs of the NETmundial Initiative. </font><font face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class=""> </p></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Marília Maciel</font></b></div><div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#444444">Pesquisadora Gestora - </font><font color="#444444">Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - </font><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">FGV Direito Rio</span></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#666666">Researcher and Coordinator - </font><font color="#666666">Center for Technology & Society - </font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">FGV Law School</span></font></div><div><font color="#666666" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts" target="_blank">http://direitorio.fgv.br/cts</a><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">DiploFoundation associate - </font><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.diplomacy.edu" target="_blank">www.diplomacy.edu</a></span></div><div><font color="#666666" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PoliTICs Magazine Advisory Committee - </font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.politics.org.br/" target="_blank">http://www.politics.org.br/</a></span><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Subscribe "Digital Rights: Latin America & the Caribbean"</span> - <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.digitalrightslac.net/en" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.digitalrightslac.net/en</a> </span></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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