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

[William Drake]

Hello

I’ve mentioned this to a couple people privately and should probably state publicly as well that I will be participating in the High Level Panel process as an “expert” advisor, e.g. in London I’ll be giving a talk about the nature of IG, running a break out session, etc.  I believe there may be a couple other people from other SGs similarly appointed, TBC.  I don’t know how they intend to deal with the request for a CS “representative” panel member, but understand nothing will happen in time for the London meeting.

I have suggested publicly announcing the agenda and providing options for people to provide written inputs, we’ll see what happens.  The London meeting is in four days and there’s a lot late rushing around to pull it together, so it’s a bit difficult to predict exactly how everything will play out.

Best,

Bill

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William J. Drake
International Fellow & Lecturer
  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
  University of Zurich, Switzerland
Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, 
  ICANN, www.ncuc.org
william.drake at uzh.ch (w), wjdrake at gmail.com (h),
  www.williamdrake.org
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On Dec 9, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 8, 2013, at 11:34 PM, McTim wrote:
> 
>> cc list trimmed to only one list.
>> 
>> /transcript-president-opening-18nov13-en.pdf
>> 
>> "USC, University of Southern California-Annenberg Foundation as well
>> as the World Economic Forum, the WEF, have partnered with us so we
>> ensure that this panel has some level of independency and is functioning
>> on a broader scale globally"
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> WEF <http://www.weforum.org/content/global-agenda-council-future-internet-2012-2014>
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:49 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for this Ian, could someone please explain to me what is meant by
>>> this fifth panel as more independent (in partnership with two other
>>> organizations.. Is he referring to Inet here? Who are the other two
>>> organizations?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> M
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net
>>> [mailto:bestbits-request at lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of Ian Peter
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 10:34 AM
>>> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Adam Peake
>>> Cc: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net
>>> Subject: Re: [governance] Re: [bestbits] HLLM in LOndon - CS reps
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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