[bestbits] Call for expressions of interest: 1net steering committee
parminder
parminder at itforchange.net
Thu Dec 5 04:44:07 EST 2013
Nnenna
Thanks for this information..
My comments below.
On Thursday 05 December 2013 01:51 PM, Nnenna Nwakanma wrote:
> 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
>
If 1Net proposes to be a larger IGF, I have a problem with it.
>
> 1. 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"
>
If it is trying to be an IGF plus, I have an even bigger problem...
All this is very unlike a tentative inter-stakeholder dialogue space
oriented to a particular important event, or even an continuing one..
parminder
> 1. 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
> <mailto: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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