[bestbits] Fwd: [ianatransition] ICANN Accountability & Governance Public Experts Group Members Announced

[parminder]

The fact that ICANN can announce a team of experts to guide what should 
be a process of democratic global governance which consists of two 
members from the US and two from EU, in this time and age is close to 
sick...

But then they are able to do so because those who should ask questions 
have forgotten how to ask questions from those who wield power, and seem 
more busy cosying up to them from whatever reasons.

Civil society groups in the IG space really need to sit back and think 
what they have been doing and what they have achieved in all these years.

I would not even participate in a discussion on an ICANN accountability 
process which starts on this note, which is such a big affront to such a 
big part of the world.

parminder

On Wednesday 20 August 2014 02:00 AM, Carolina Rossini wrote:
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> From: *Grace Abuhamad* <grace.abuhamad at icann.org 
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> Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:08 PM
> Subject: [ianatransition] ICANN Accountability & Governance Public 
> Experts Group Members Announced
> To: "ianatransition at icann.org <mailto:ianatransition at icann.org>" 
> <ianatransition at icann.org <mailto:ianatransition at icann.org>>
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> Please see original announcement at 
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-19-en
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>   ICANN Accountability & Governance Public Experts Group Members Announced
>
>
> As described in the 14 August 2014 posting of the Enhancing 
> ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps 
> <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/process-next-steps-2014-08-14-en>, 
> four respected individuals with backgrounds in academia, governmental 
> relations, global insight, and the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC), 
> will form the Accountability & Governance Public Expsible for the 
> *selection of up to seven Advisors to sit on the Coordination 
> Group* to assure that best practices are brought from the larger 
> global community. Once selected by the Public Experts Group, these 
> Advisors will contribute research and advice, as well as bring 
> perspectives on global best practices to enrich the discussion, all 
> while engaging with a broader network of accountability experts from 
> around the world.
>
> The members of the Public Experts Group are:
>
>   * *Brian Cute*erts Group. Selected by ICANN's President and CEO,
>     Fadi Chehadé, members of the Public Experts Group will be respon
>
>     CEO of The Public Interest Registry and Chair of ICANN's first and
>     second Accountability and Transparency Review Teams
>     <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/accountability-2012-02-25-en> (ATRT).^1
>     <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-19-en#foot1>
>
>   * *Jeanette Hofmann*
>
>     Director, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and
>     Society, in Berlin, Germany. She also conducts research at the
>     Social Science Research Center Berlin. She represented the
>     academic community as one of four co-chairs of the NETmundial
>     Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet
>     Governance in São Paulo, Brazil, in April 2014.
>
>   * *Ambassador Janis Karklins*
>
>     Latvian Ambassador. Chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group
>     (MAG); former Chairman of the Governmental Advisory Committee,
>     GAC Liaison to the ICANN Board and co-selector of the ATRT1.
>
>   * *Lawrence E. Strickling*
>
>     NTIA Administrator and Assistant Secretary for Communication and
>     Information of the U.S. Department of Commerce; and member of both
>     ATRT1 and ATRT2.
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> ^1 <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-08-19-en#note1> 
>  Mandated by the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC), the ATRT is a team 
> of community representatives responsible for reviewing ICANN's 
> accountability, transparency and pursuit of the interests of global 
> Internet users on a recurring basis.
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