[bestbits] Agenda for Civil Society pre-NetMundial Coordination Meeting

Nnenna Nwakanma nnenna75 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 11:25:35 EDT 2014


Thanks Jeremy.

One quick one, this is scheduled for  Tuesday the 22nd. Right?

N


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at malcolm.id.au>wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
> On behalf of civil society groups organising the Civil Society
> pre-NetMundial Coordination Meeting (herein “CS pre-NM”), we would like to
> share with you the meeting agenda as follows.
>
> The “CS pre-NM” is a gathering of over 90 civil society groups from around
> the world involved in internet governance and broader internet-related
> public policy debates regionally and globally. This is an action-oriented
> group with the aim to facilitate the expression of civil society views and
> feed them into the discussions at NetMundial and beyond. You can find a
> preliminary list of civil society representatives attending the meeting
> *here* <http://bestbits.net/events/netmundial-coordination/%20>1<#14565dca1871f9b5_sdfootnote1sym>.
> Example initiatives and statements from members of this group can be found
> *here* <http://bestbits.net/>2 <#14565dca1871f9b5_sdfootnote2sym>.
>
> The agenda is focused on setting points of consensus, discussing strategic
> action and distilling key messages for members of civil society that are
> able to pursue common goals, based on 1) defending fundamental Human
> Rights; 2) ensuring the Open, Decentralized and Interoperable Architecture
> of the Web and 3) fostering an Open, Inclusive, Democratic and
> Decentralised Multistakeholder model of Internet Governance.
>
> Based in this three pillars, in order to have a clear mapping of the state
> of consensus within Civil Society, we are convening 3 working groups
> (Principles, Roadmap and IANA transition) of resource persons that will be
> focused until the day of our meeting on analyzing CS contributions and
> comments posted at NetMundial platform to deliver: a) a set of bullet
> points of possible ground of consensus and b) a set of questions around key
> issues that will require us to have agreement on during our meeting. Our
> hope is to honor different CS points of view presented so far, and quickly
> air disagreements and the arguments for each approach.
>
> We hope we can count on your collaboration to achieve our goals and, in
> the end, have a clear message from civil society that enable those who seek
> to refine their tactics and strategies for the Conference to do so.
>
> *AGENDA:*
>
> *Venue: Espaço Missões, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Rua Vergueiro 1000, Sao
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>
> *9:30am - 10:00 - Introductions: NETmundial 2014 introduction and Goal of
> our meeting and rules of engagement*
>
>    -
>
>    *Welcome and goal of the meeting presented by organizers*: Joana Varon
>    (Brazil), Jeremy Malcolm (BestBits), Valeria Betancourt (APC), Veridiana
>    Alimonti (IDEC, Brazil) and Laura Tresca (Article 19, Brazil) (3-5min)
>    -
>
>    *Briefing by EMC CS reps:* Marilia Maciel, Adam Peake [TBC], Carlos
>    Afonso [TBC]
>
> *10:00-11:15am Principles: Guaranteeing protection of Human Rights and
> Ensuring the Open and Interoperable Architecture of the Web*
>
>    -
>
>    *Facilitator: *Anriette Esterhuysen (APC, South Africa) [TBC]
>    -
>
>    *Goals:* clarify and set the common ground regarding core principles
>    for IG that this group of CS will defend at NetMundial and in talks among
>    other stakeholder groups
>    -
>
>    *Resource persons** for Internet governance principles*: Matthew
>    Shears, Carolina Rossini, Anriette Esterhuysen/Valeria Betancourt and
>    Veridiana Alimonti. Volunteers are welcome, please, just ping any of the
>    resource persons.
>
> *11:15-11:30am - Coffee Break*
>
> *11:30 - 13:00 Roadmap: towards a coordinated, decentralized, inclusive
> and open multistakeholder model of Internet Governance *
>
> *Facilitators:* Matthew Shears (CDT, USA and UK, with international work)
> [TBC]
>
>    -
>
>    *Goal:* clarify and set the common ground regarding a coordinated,
>    decentralized, democratic, inclusive and open multistakeholder model of
>    Internet Governance
>    -
>
>    *Resource persons for **Internet governance principles: *Anja Kovacs,
>    Jeremy Malcolm, Joana Varon, Carolina Rossini. On IANA transition: Niels
>    ten Oever, Rafik Dammak, Stephanie Perrin. Volunteers are welcome, please,
>    just ping any of the resource persons.
>
> *13:00 - 14:00 - NetMundial: The rules of the game: how to maximize civil
> society impact in the interventions and the meetings to follow*
>
>    -
>
>    *Facilitator:* Bia Barbosa (Intervozes, Brazil)
>    -
>
>    *Brief Notes *by Daniel Fink (Executive Director at NETmundial 2014)
>    [TBC]
>    -
>
>    *Goal: *By this time, resource persons from the previous sessions
>    shall deliver a set of bullet points as final agreements and names who have
>    volunteered to deliver the bullet points in NetMundial plenary. These
>    documents will serve as input for this session that have to goal to build
>    the strategy about how to deliver these points, vis a vis NetMundial
>    dynamic for interactions in the floor, so we end with a clear, consolidated
>    and final matrix of interactions at NetMundial plenary (which shall be made
>    public soon).
>
> *14:00 - 15:00 - Lunch (provided by the meeting organizers) - CCSP
> restaurant*
>
> *15:00 - 16:00 - Media Strategy, Hubs for remote participation and
> Stakeholder relations*
>
>    -
>
>    *Goal*: brief the media hub on our main points, and briefing for the
>    following open sessions with the technical community and governments
>    included suggested strategy to engage with them on conflictual issues.
>
>
>    -
>
>    *Media strategy facilitators: *Renata Avila (WebWeWant, Guatemala) and
>    Jyoti Panday (CIS, India)
>    -
>
>    *Technical community relations: *Avri Doria (XXX, XXX)
>    -
>
>    *Government relations: *Jovan Kurbalija (Diplo Foundation) and Gene
>    Kimmelman (Public Knowledge, USA)
>
> *16:00 - 17:00:* *Open session with technical community*
>
>    -
>
>    *Facilitator: *William Drake / Marilia Maciel? [TBC]
>    -
>
>    *Comments:* Fadi (ICANN) [TBC]
>    -
>
>    *Goal: *learn core issues for technical community and communicate core
>    CS concerns/positions. Explore opportunities for collaboration.
>
> *17:00-17:15 - Coffee Break*
>
> *17:30 - 19:00: Meeting(s) with invited governments (bilateral or mixed -
> TBC)*
>
>    -
>
>    *Facilitator(s):* Marilia Maciel (CTS/FGV, Brazil)
>    -
>
>    *Goal:* Learn core issues for governments and communicate core CS
>    concerns/positions. Explore opportunities for collaboration.
>
> *19hrs- Dinner on your own/ engage in activities at the Arena (ps. Lula
> and Brazilian civil society activits will be talking about MarcoCivil at
> ArenaMundial at 19:00)*
>
> *** ROLE OF RESOURCE PERSONS: Resource persons shall develop a set of
> bullet points of consensus and a set of questions (stress tests) around key
> issue areas that will most likely arise and that will require us to have
> discourse and agreement on during our meeting. They will work as a fluid
> working group analyzing CS contributions and comments posted at NetMundial
> platform so final achievements are as inclusive as possible. They will have
> 15 min to present this briefing in the beginning of their respective
> session.*
>
>
>  Your faithfully,
>
> The organizers
>
> Association for Progressive Communications – APC (Global), Article 19
> (Global), Best Bits (Global), Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression –
> CELE (Argentina), CTS/FGV (Brazil), Derechos Digitales (Chile), Global
> Partners Digital (UK), Institutito de Defesa do Consumidor – IDEC (Brazil),
> Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade – ITS (Brazil), and the Web We Want
> (Global)
>
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> Internet lawyer, ICT policy advocate, geek
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