[bestbits] Fwd: [steering] Brazil Meeting - Joint Civil Society Letter to Organizers

[Nnenna Nwakanma]

FYI

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From: Hartmut Richard Glaser <glaser at cgi.br>
Date: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:59 PM
Subject: [steering] Brazil Meeting - Joint Civil Society Letter to
Organizers
To: steering at lists.bestbits.net, info at irpcharter.org,
coordinators at igcaucus.org, APC <anriette at apc.org>, "discuss at 1net.org" <
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To:
Best Bits Interim Steering Committee
IRP Coalition
Coordinators of the Internet Governance Caucus
Association for Progressive Communications – APC

Dear Friends,

*CLARIFICATION:*

Now that we published the PRESS RELEASE with all details related to the
appointment of the different representatives to
the *Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, *we
like to mention that the LOG (with G)
*- Logistics and Organizational Group, *composed ONLY of CGI.br Members (and
NOT identical with LOC (with C) -
*Logistics and Organizational Committee*), *was the ONLY group working
*beforehand
to discuss internally the mission that we have received
from our President Dilma Rousseff and try to propose a working process for
a successful event in April2014.

To avoid unbalanced participation, NO representatives or liaisons of any
community were part at the LOG (with G) meetings,
reason that we don't send invitation for civil society groups.

As announced, until January the 27th, all names of the Committee Members
must be public and then really  the hard work
for all of us together will start.

We expect to have the full support of all communities in all steps related
to the preparation of this very important meeting
to foster the involvement of the global internet community.

best regards

Hartmut Glaser
Secretariat of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee – CGI.br
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Joint civil society letter on appointment of representatives to Global
 Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance
November 25, 2013

To
Mr. Paulo Bernardo Silva, Minister of Communications – Minicom;
Mr. Virgilio Almeida, Secretary for Information Technology Policy at the
Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation – MCTI;
Mr. Valdir Simão, Special Assessor for the Presidency;
Emb. Benedicto Fonseca, Director of the Department of Scientific and
Technological Affairs of the Minister of External Relations – MRE;
Mr. Harmut Glaser, Secretariat of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
– CGI.br

We, as representatives of four networks that include civil society
organizations and individuals involved in Internet governance, are writing
with reference to preparations for the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on
the Future of Internet Governance that is planned to be held in
São Paulo, Brazil by April 2014.

During the eighth Internet Governance Forum in Bali this year, many of us
met in person, and some others participated remotely and agreed
that the following persons would be delegated to serve as interim Liaisons
from across these networks for purposes of planning the Global
Meeting:

* Ms Joana Varon Ferraz, Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV)
* Ms Carolina Rossini, New American Foundation
* Mr Carlos A. Afonso, Nupef Institute
* Ms Laura Tresca, Article XIX Brasil

This letter is to express our continuing support for this arrangement as
planning for the meeting takes shape. The above interim Liaisons shall
remain at disposal of the Brazilian authorities in all matters  pertaining
to the organization of the Global Meeting, and we urge that our Liaisons
should in the context of these preparations be invited to all meetings with
all other constituencies as full participants in this process. We support
their work and look forward to hearing of progress in their reports back to
our networks that are made up of a broad constituency of civil society
groups and individuals. They have our trust and support.

If you have any inquiries about the above matter, please do not hesitate to
contact us at any time, either directly or through the above Liaisons.

Yours sincerely,
Best Bits Interim Steering Committee (steering at lists.bestbits.net)
IRP Coalition (info at irpcharter.org)
Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro and Norbert Bollow, coordinators of the Internet
Governance Caucus (coordinators at igcaucus.org)
Association for Progressive Communications – APC (anriette at apc.org)

November, 25th, 2013
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