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

Adam Peake ajp at glocom.ac.jp
Mon Dec 9 05:08:47 EST 2013


Hi Bill.

Thanks for letting us know.  Good to know you'll be involved -- hope it goes well and please keep us informed. 

Adam



On Dec 9, 2013, at 6:57 PM, William Drake wrote:

> 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
> 
> **********************************************************
> 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
> ***********************************************************
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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