[bestbits] Nominees to High Level meeting in Bali on "Global Multi-Stakeholder Cyber Ethics Principles"

[Marianne Franklin]

Dear all

Tapani's points and suggestion below are sound.

Having governments take the IGF seriously is integral to moving things 
forward in the longer term. How these sorts of events operate in 
protocol terms are, as Anriette notes, not always conducive to 
interactive modes of discussion. But we have to start somewhere.

As there is already and invitation list in place I hope all our 
self-nominations can be taken on board so that people can attend the 
meeting at least. That there has been little time or consultation for 
respective organizations and networks/coalitions to consult properly to 
nominate people to represent them is not new either.

Is this pre-event a closed meeting then entirely? If so, can we join 
forces to urge the organizers to open it up for observers. The longer 
term plans for cementing a wider participation in future can then continue.

Like others I am interested in hearing what ministers have to say, even 
if in formal protocol-speak as an individual and also on behalf of IRP 
Coalition members not attending. In terms of Best Bits representation 
likewise as our being allowed to be in the room is important I think.

best
MF

On 14/08/2013 15:22, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> Tapani Tarvainen <tapani.tarvainen at effi.org> wrote:
>
>>> How about setting up a joint NomCom by inviting members of all the
>>> various civil society organizations and networks to volunteer for
>>> the NomCom
>> Just finding all civil society organizations is hard enough,
>> let alone getting them to agree... we'd need to get this NomCom
>> somehow officially blessed by the IGF or something.
>> But if we can get enough support for it, i.e., sufficiently
>> large number of CS organizations, it could work.
> As I mentioned in my response to Jeremy I'd like to go ahead with this
> idea with a target of having something in place in time for the 2014
> IGF.
>
> As a first step, I'd like to build a “list of civil society networks in
> the area of Internet Governance”, and I've created an Etherpad for this
> at
>
>   http://igcaucus.org:9001/p/civil-society-networks
>
> Obviously all of the steering groups etc. of these networks must be
> invited to participate in the discussions around creating a Joint Civil
> Society NomCom mechanism, or other credible mechanism that could
> serve the same purpose.
>
> I however don't think that it is appropriate to restrict these
> dicussions only to people who are on some steering group. Therefore I'd
> like to broadly circulate a call for expressions of interest for
> participation in these discussions, in which everyone who is
> (1) experienced as a civil society participant in Internet governance
>      debates, and is
> (2) clearly primarily participating as a civil society person, with
>      reasonable independence from industry and government interests
> is invited tp also participate in these discussions on the basis of a
> simple expression of interest.
>
> In case of any doubts in regard to whether someone expressing interest
> fulfills the criteria (1) and (2), I envision decisions about
> application of these to be made group of people which consists of all
> the people from the various steering groups of civil society networks.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>

-- 
Dr Marianne Franklin
Reader
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Co-Chair Internet Rights & Principles Coalition (UN IGF)
Goldsmiths, University of London
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