[bestbits] Call for expressions of interest: 1net steering committee
parminder
parminder at itforchange.net
Thu Dec 5 04:53:02 EST 2013
On Thursday 05 December 2013 01:59 PM, Joana Varon wrote:
> Dear Parminder and all, I guess these important questions are the ones
> repeatedly echoed in all our minds right now.
>
> But maybe the steering committee (or the coordination group, which I
> also think is a more appropriate nomenclature) is meant exactly to
> address this questions and finally formulate the answers, taking into
> account what has been debated in the list?
Thanks Joana
Since they have asked us to provide members for the committee, would
they not give us a short description of what the committee once
formulated is supposed to do... All this does not look quite transparent
to me, and a kind of taking civil society for granted. That if we are
asked for nominees we will just scramble and obey (as kind of happened
in the case of ICANN's HLL panel where we scrambled even when we were
not asked for nominees).
We should not be taken for granted, and if they ask for nominees we can
ask what is this for, or anything else we want to ask... And if they do
not care to respond (just a hypothetical scenario) neither need we care
to respond to their request for nominees. As civil society group we do
contribute to their 'weight' and legitimacy. Also we too have backward
responsibility. Civil society may need to work with more gravitas .
parminder
> These single, important, but very early stage issues have been going
> on since Bali with a lot of misunderstandings and a bit of mess, and
> should be addressed quickly. Also, I guess that, being able to see how
> the steering is composed will help to build trust, or not, in the
> future of 1net.
>
> Having said that, I would be happy to try my best there, if nominated.
> But also, please, have in mind that ultimately I think I would be more
> useful to ur community if I'm able to work close to the Brazilian
> government being part of either one of the 2 committees among the 4
> that are still to be populated (the other 2 are government only and
> logistics). Something to consider if who is pointed for 1net should
> not be in the Brazilian committees. Nevertheless, to add extra
> complication, I'm pretty sure that for this committees international
> CS representatives will have preference over Brazilians, as the CS
> seats for Brazilians shall be occupied by CGI.br folks.
>
> my two cents. ;)
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:05 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net
> <mailto:parminder at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>
> Does anyone have any idea what the plans of 1netare? What are its
> objectives and possible outcomes?
>
> I welcome a space for a dialogue outside and across respective
> civil society and technical community spaces . It could be very
> useful. But is there any plan beyond this? I mean, one really does
> not need a multistakeholder steering committee to conduct an
> online dialogue. For anyone to decide on wanting or not to join
> the committee, or even to consider whom one should nominate, it
> will be useful to have some primary idea of what would the
> committee and 1net itself do..
>
> parminder
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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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