[bestbits] Important: letter to Brazil government on CS representation

[Anja Kovacs]

Dear Parminder and all,

Please find below the text of the letter that the liaisons feel comfortable
with. If you have any concerns about this letter being forwarded as is,
please let us know within 24 hours of this email being sent. If there are
no further comments, it will go as is.

For your information, the IGC cocoordinators and the IRP DC steering
committee have been involved in the developing of this letter as well and
support it as is.

Thanks and best,
Anja



LETTER FINAL DRAFT
To
Mr. Paulo Bernardo Silva, Minister of Communications - Minicom
Mr. Virgilio de Almeida, Secretary for Information Technology Policy at the
Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation - MCTI
Mr. Valdir Simão, Special Assessor for the Presidency
Emb. Benedicto Fonseca, Director of the Department of Scientific and
Technological Affairs of the Minister of External Relations - MRE and
Mr. Harmut Glaser, Secretariat of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
- CGI.br

We, as representatives of three networks that include civil society
organisations and individuals involved in Internet governance, are writing
with reference to preparations for the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on
the Future of Internet Governance that is planned to be held in São Paulo,
Brazil by April 2014.

During the eighth Internet Governance Forum in Bali this year, many of us
met in person, and some others participated remotely and agreed that the
following persons would be delegated to serve as interim Liaisons from
across these networks for purposes of planning the Global Meeting:

* Ms Joana Varon Ferraz
* Ms Carolina Rossini
* Mr Carlos A Afonso
* Ms Laura Tresca

This letter is to express our continuing support for this arrangement as
planning for the meeting takes shape. The above interim Liaisons shall
remain at disposal of the Brazilian authorities in all matters pertaining
to the organisation of the Global Meeting, and we urge that our Liaisons
should in the context of these preparations be invited to all meetings with
all other constituencies as full participants in this process. We support
their work and look forward to hearing of progress in their reports back to
our networks that are made up of a broad constituency of civil society
groups and individuals. They have our trust and support.

If you have any inquiries about the above matter, please do not hesitate to
contact us at any time, either directly or through the above Liaisons.

Yours sincerely,

etc

-- 
Dr. Anja Kovacs
The Internet Democracy Project

+91 9899028053 | @anjakovacs
www.internetdemocracy.in
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