[governance] Re: [bestbits] HLLM in LOndon - CS reps

[Ian Peter]

Hi Adam,

Because it would be inappropriate I am deliberately not taking on a  role of 
coordinating back to various networks as that is what the various reps 
should do. But here is the reply from Fadi to Robin (copied to the reps 
earlier).

Hello Robin,

I hope you had a good thanksgiving holiday. I took several days off and 
regained a lot of energy after our busy week in Buenos Aires. I just got 
back and ready for the next phase of work.

As I noted below and in Buenos Aires, we were never in a position to grow 
the panel any further. In BA, however, after the panel was announced, we 
made a final commitment to add only one panelist from the cc community, and 
only one more from civil society -- understanding the need for broader 
participation. Byron Holland from the cc community agreed to serve while in 
Buenos Aires.

At this stage, and now that we have established this fifth panel as more 
independent (in partnership with two other organizations), I will need to 
confer with our partners on your request, as well as with the Chairman of 
the panel. I predict that they will be sensitive to diversity.

I cannot meet with the chairman until next week on Wednesday. I will keep 
you posted. It may be a little late for London but rest assured that Frank 
La Rue, Lynn St. Amour, and myself will have our communities interests very 
vigilantly on top of our agendas.

Fadi

-----Original Message----- 
From: Adam Peake
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:03 PM
To: Ian Peter
Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org ; bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
Subject: [governance] Re: [bestbits] HLLM in LOndon - CS reps

Hi Ian,

Any reply to the CS coalition's recommendations?  The high level panel is 
due to meet December 12-13 (London), a week from now.

Best,

Adam



On Nov 30, 2013, at 5:50 AM, Ian Peter wrote:

> Please find a letter just send to Fadi Chehade under my signatory as an 
> independent facilitator as regards civil society representation at this 
> meeting in two weeks time.
>
> Let me be the first to admit the process was imperfect, the result was 
> imperfect. But so was the task we were given, the timeframe,  the people 
> involved in making the decision, and the facilitation process.
>
> I can only say that there was widespread agreement we should submit names, 
> and for the names submitted. And that doing and saying nothing would have 
> been the alternative in this timeframe.
>
>
> Ian Peter
>
>
> 29 November 2013
> RE: Civil Society Representation on High Level Panel in London
>
> Dear Fadi and Nora:
>
> I am writing to you following from discussions held by a coalition of 
> representatives of the
> civil society networks most involved in Internet governance deliberations, 
> we appreciate your
> willingness to engage civil society in discussions regarding the future of 
> Internet
> governance. We also appreciate your recognition that civil society is 
> under-represented on
> your High Level Panel and your willingness to accept additional civil 
> society participants to
> this panel to provide more balance.
> After consultations with our networks, we propose adding the following 2 
> civil society
> representatives to begin to balance against the much larger numbers from 
> government, the
> private sector, and technical representatives placed on the initial panel.
> Civil society’s two nominated representatives for the London High Level 
> Panel are:
> 1. Anriette Esterhuysen (anriette at apc.org)
> 2. Milton Mueller (mueller at syr.edu)
> Would you please kindly confirm your acceptance of these names, and 
> contact our
> representatives directly to arrange their participation?
> We also strongly recommend the involvement of Jovan Kurbalija of the Diplo 
> Foundation as
> a highly experienced and knowledgeable facilitator.
> We trust that in future we will be able to look at much more equitable 
> representation of civil
> society in such panels and committees.
> Persons involved with these deliberations and choice of names from various 
> civil society
> networks were:
> Virginia Paque, Diplo Foundation
> Anriette Esterhuysen, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
> Robin Gross, ICANN's Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG)
> Norbert Bollow and Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro, Internet Governance Caucus 
> (IGC)
> Jeremy Malcolm, Best Bits
> Signed,
> Ian Peter, Independent Facilitator
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