[bestbits] HLLM in LOndon - CS reps

[Nnenna Nwakanma]

Thanks Ian.

Letter looks fine. And thanks to the team for giving time to this.
Best to the nominees.

N


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> 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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