[bestbits] HLLM in LOndon - CS reps

[Anja Kovacs]

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On Nov 30, 2013 2:50 AM, "Valeria Betancourt" <valeriab at apc.org> wrote:

> + 1
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> Valeria
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> On 29/11/2013, at 15:57, Nnenna Nwakanma wrote:
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> 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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