[bestbits] A few notes from the NETmundial phone conference

[Stephanie Perrin]

NIce summary Jeremy!  and a short timeline to decide on what appears to 
me to be a very unclear initiative.  I would add that although there was 
a specific box on the interface to ask questions, noone else appears to 
have been able to see the questions others were asking, and noone who I 
have talked to had their questions asked/answered in the Q&A period.  
Also just to note that there appear to have been 166 people 
participating, which is a pretty good turnout for a webinar that 
conflicted with a number of other initiatives we are all engaged in.
cheers Stephanie Perrin
On 2014-11-06, 13:23, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> I attended the NETmundial phone conference this morning, interested to 
> find out what had changed since the previous launch in August, which 
> had drawn criticism not only from civil society but more broadly.
>
> The NETmundial Initiative is presented as not being a centralised 
> organisation but rather a platform to support distributed governance 
> of the Internet.  It brings together "Enablers" (currently CGI.br, 
> ICANN and WEF) and proposed "Solutions".  The solutions can be 
> contributed by anyone in crowdsourcing fashion, and can invite 
> partnerships or calls for assistance. The focus of the Initiative is 
> on mapping what already exists, and on developing solutions where 
> there are gaps.
>
> There have been some changes since what was presented in August, 
> mainly to de-emphasise the role of the WEF, which now notionally has 
> its own separate but parallel Internet initiative.  However WEF will 
> continue to enjoy a permanent seat on the NETmundial Initiative's 
> Coordination Council, and contrary to previous indications, the name 
> of the initiative will not be changed to remove the reference to 
> "NETmundial".  This is because the NETmundial Principles are meant to 
> be the foundation for the Initiative's work (I questioned whether this 
> meant that those Principles are set in stone, and received an 
> equivocal response that the Initiative might work on evolving them if 
> someone proposed this.)
>
> The Coordination Council will contain 25 members, 5 of which are 
> permanent seats for CGI.br <http://CGI.br>, WEF, ICANN,
> the I* group, and the IGF MAG.  Note: no permanent seat for civil 
> society, except through CGI.br and the IGF.  The other 20 members will 
> be distributed across four stakeholder groups which are (1) academia, 
> the technical community and foundations, (2) civil society, (3) 
> governments and intergovernmental organisations, and (4) the private 
> sector - and across all geographical regions.
>
> There was much emphasis on how "bottom up" this initiative is, which 
> drew skeptical responses in the webconference chat room. Although they 
> did invite the stakeholder groups to nominate their own 
> representatives, ultimately ICANN, WEF and CGI.br together reserved 
> the right to decide between them if too many nominations were 
> received.  (From civil society's point of view, we would aim, if we 
> are to nominate candidates at all, to do so centrally through our IG 
> Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) in order to avoid giving WEF 
> that power.)
>
> Nominations are due within a month, so we really need to decide within 
> a week whether we intend to participate at all, and if so, to proceed 
> to a nomination process through the CSCG.
>
> -- 
> Jeremy Malcolm
> Senior Global Policy Analyst
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
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> jmalcolm at eff.org
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