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

Carolina Rossini carolina.rossini at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 11:27:24 EDT 2014


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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna75 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Jeremy.
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> One quick one, this is scheduled for  Tuesday the 22nd. Right?
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at malcolm.id.au>wrote:
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>>  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 <#14565fec5da333d9_14565dca1871f9b5_sdfootnote1sym>. Example
>> initiatives and statements from members of this group can be found *here*<http://bestbits.net/>
>> 2 <#14565fec5da333d9_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,
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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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>>   --
>> Jeremy Malcolm PhD LLB (Hons) B Com
>> Internet lawyer, ICT policy advocate, geek
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