[governance] Re: CS-EU Meeting

[Sivasubramanian M]

Dear Wolfgang,


This initiative to reach out to Governments would further the acceptability
of the multi-stakeholder model. Setting up meetings with Government
Delegations, Senior Government functionaries from different parts of the
world, one after another at every IGF / regional IGFs / MAG meetings would
be opportunities for Government to 'see' the Civil Society face to face,
which would favorably bring down the distance from Civil Society and
Government. Same could be done with Business and Technical communities.

At ICANN at least a few members of the Business Constituency, and perhaps
even one or two members of the Board were rather reluctant, if not
apprehensive about working with At-Large. Meetings with the Board and more
recently the meetings with the Business Constituency have favorably altered
the way each see the other.

I don't view this merely as meetings between IGC and Government, but more as
the beginning of Civil Society's informal Interactions with other
stakeholders, beginning with IGC meetings with the American / EU
Governments. Please take this forward further.


Sivasubramanian M
ISOC India Chennai
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2011/9/30 Izumi AIZU <iza at anr.org>

> Thank you Wolfgang for sharing this with us.
>
> I think it will be important to keep the link, not only the following
> areas reported,
> but perhaps also the issue of IGF improvement through CSTD WG though
> EU, I believe, do not have any direct involvement as such. G20 may also be
> another target/subject so is the UN GA on Code of Conduct on Internet
> security proposal.
>
> izumi
>
> 2011/9/30 "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
> <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de>:
> > Hi everybody
> >
> > here is another short report from a meeting between CS and the EU
> Commissioner Kroes on Thursday late afternoon. The meeting was arranged at
> request of the Commissioner and was the first meeting which took place
> between her and CS. From the EU - next to Commissioner - Thibaut Kleiner
> from the Cabinet and Andrea Gloriso from the DG. From CS Marillia, Katitza,
> Bill and me participated.
> >
> > We raised a number of issues as the understanding of the multistakeholder
> policy dialogue and ways to increase civil society participation in public
> consultation on Internet related public policy issues organized by the EU.
> The Commissioner underlined the strong interest the EU Commission to get the
> CS perspectives and the readiness "to listen". However the Commissioner
> explained also that the established procedures within the EU predefine to a
> certain degree how input can be channeled into decisions on Internet related
> public policy issues.
> >
> > Bill Drake called for a stronger support by the EU in strengthening the
> role of CS in intergovernmental bodies as the ITU, WIPO and others. CS
> people underlined that first priority for them are issues like freedom of
> expression, privacy, access, rights of disabled people and multiligualism in
> the Internet. There was no time to go into details as ACTA and other issues
> which are on the table.
> >
> > We had also a discussion on ICANN issues, in particular the EU role in
> the recent GAC/Board meeting in Singapur and the six position papers. The
> Commissioner underlined that the EU will continue to push ICANN that
> decisions has to be in the framework of the law, in particular competition
> law (with regard to the new gTLD programm). CS people argued that an early
> involvement of the EU in ICANNs PDPs could avoid a number of conflicts.
> >
> > CS asked what the Commssioner plans with regard to the announced Internet
> Compact, based on the seven principles Md. Kroes has outlined in her speech
> at the OECD meeting in July. She promised that a process will start soon and
> this process will be fully multistakeholder.
> >
> > She promised to continue the dialogue and appointed both Thibaut Kleiner
> and Andrea Glorisos to be the contact persons.
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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>            Institute for HyperNetwork Society, Oita,
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