[bestbits] Call for expressions of interest: 1net steering committee

[Nnenna Nwakanma]

Hi people

Been off mails on these lists for since the beginning of the week.

I had some chat with some 1Net leads during the just ended AfriNIC 19 in
Abidjan.
Two clear things:

   1. 1Net is still in its formative stage and is looking to the community
   to shape its objectives, agenda and working methods
   2. 1Net will strecth for some time, at least for now, that is the
   leaning.
   3. Brazil has a 6-month activity line between now and then. It may end
   up as "intercession" between two IGFs
   4. Some other consultations of mine also show that stakeholders may
   leverage on Brazil to " decide to do" as opposed to IGF which comes to
   "discuss"
   5. Being that 1Net is "here to stay"" and Brazil is a one-off (until
   initial participants decide otherwise) then it should be okay for people to
   be in Brazil Steering and also 1Net Steering

Best regards


Nnenn


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:14 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

>
> On Wednesday 04 December 2013 07:25 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
>  I'm sure you're aware by now of the 1net dialogue, which the technical
> community organisations initiated around the time of the Bali IGF meeting,
> and invited the private sector and civil society to join.  The vision for
> the 1net dialogue is rather poorly defined, so it remains unclear how
> important or influential 1net may become.  I'm not going to attempt to
> summarise the competing visions for 1net here.  I can only suggest that if
> you haven't already, you read the email archives of its mailing list to
> learn more: https://nro.net/mailman/listinfo/i-coordination.
>
>  There has been a somewhat loose invitation from the 1net coordinators
> for the other stakeholder groups to each nominate five members for the 1net
> steering committee, but a deadline for that has only just been set, and
> (unless extended) it is very soon - *next Monday 9 December*.  So to do
> this, we are falling back to the same joint committee of representatives
> from civil society networks that recently nominated civil society members
> to join the High Level Panel convened by ICANN to provide input into the
> Brazil meeting.
>
>  Each of those networks is now urgently reaching out to their
> constituents, as I'm doing so now, to ask for expressions of interest in
> serving on the 1net steering committee.  On the part of the Best Bits
> participants, in Bali we already nominated the same four Brazilian
> representatives (Carolina, Joana, Carlos and Laura) to be on that
> committee.  As far as I know, they are willing to continue, but have
> expressed the wish that someone else also join, who has a closer
> association with the ICANN community.  That being the case, we need to put
> forward one name.
>
>
> Is this a view communicated by all the 4 reps... I am not so sure of the
> justification. Why not for instance have someone from the ICTD community...
> I think Carlos have deep connections enough with the ICANN community, no...
> We need to take the Brazil summit outwards towards key global Internet
> related public policy issues that are real concerns for the world, and not
> more inwards towards narrow ICANN issues, which are a very limited set. But
> I agree that the four existing reps being all from Brazil, a developing
> country, maybe the additional person can be from a developed country.
> Crossing these two considerations, I think Michael Gurstein should make a
> great choice.
>
> parminder
>
>
>
>
>  If you would like to be put yourself forward to join the 1net steering
> committee, or would like to nominate someone else, then this thread is for
> that purpose.  The thread can also be used to discuss the criteria that you
> think should be used by the joint committee in considering the nominees to
> put forward.  If you disagree that the four Brazilian representatives
> should be amongst the five civil society representatives on the 1net
> steering committee, then you can put forward that view too.
>
>  In closing, I do need to acknowledge that the joint committee is still
> an imperfect vehicle for nominating civil society representatives to the
> 1net steering committee, because it doesn't yet have an elaborate procedure
> in place for making the selection - and I know how sensitive some of us are
> about that sort of thing.  All I can say about that is that in parallel to
> this call for expressions of interest, the committee is also considering
> how procedures it could put in place that would satisfy their constituents'
> expectations for a transparent and accountable process.  Meanwhile, that
> remains a work in progress.
>
>  I will forward the views put forward in this thread to the other members
> of the joint committee (who are currently from APC, Diplo, the IGC and the
> NCSG - Michael Gurstein's interest in joining has also been noted and is
> under discussion).  We will then discuss the nominations within the
> committee, and attempt to come back to you all with a suggestion that will
> hopefully be generally acceptable.  If you have any process-related
> queries, it is probably appropriate that you direct those to Ian Peter who
> is the independent chair of the joint committee for now.
>
>   --
>
>
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