[governance] Message to the IGC [Call for Wider Civil Society to engage in a Coalition]

[Thomas Lowenhaupt]

Sala,

Our organization in very interested in participating in designing the 
road ahead:

 1. Name of the Organisation or Network (and when organisation or
    network was first formed) - Connecting.nyc Inc., a NYS nonprofit
    formed in 2006.
 2. Details of Constituency represented (Please also identify whether
    this is a country based/regional or international) We represent
    individual Internet users in New York _City_.
 3. Name of Coordinator of Organisation/Network - Thomas Lowenhaupt
 4. Contact Details (including website) - Tom at connectingnyc.org,
    http://connectingnyc.org
 5. Name of one Nominee to the Coalition who will speak on
    administrative matters where it comes to the wider coalition -
    Thomas Lowenhaupt

Note: Our organization's focus centers around improving communication 
and decision making in the urban environment of New York City. In that 
light, I suggest you consider rephrasing question #2 "Details of 
Constituency represented." We are neither country, regional or 
international. It is our belief that urban needs have been 
underrepresented in designing Internet resources. While our focus is New 
York City, I suspect there are other urban entities that would join this 
emerging collaborative effort if an invitation was extended. With 37 
cities having applied for TLDs, extending an invitation to those city 
administrations (not the back end providers) would add another 
(complexity and ) layer to the evolution of Internet governance. (My 
view is that cities (here in the U.S.) are closer to civil society than 
government and should be considered part of the bottom-up process.)

Sincerely,

Thomas Lowenhaupt


On 12/2/2013 12:38 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> At the moment, there is a loose network of some civil society 
> organisations namely:
>
>  1. Association for Progressive Commuications (APC)
>  2. Best Bits
>  3. Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus
>  4. Diplo Foundation
>  5. ICANN's Non Commercial Stakeholder Group
>
> [In alphabetical order]
>
> I would really like to see more civil society organisations work 
> together to collaborate on designing the way forward and strategies. 
> If you feel that you would like your civil society organisation to be 
> part of a wider collaborative effort, please respond to this email by 
> submitting the name of your organisation. Please feel free to send 
> this onwards to your respective cosmos.
>
> The names put forward can be used to forge a Coalition of a wider 
> civil society based network. If you would like to be part of a wider 
> Coalition, please respond to this email with following information:
>
>  1. Name of the Organisation or Network (and when organisation or
>     network was first formed)
>  2. Details of Constituency represented (Please also identify whether
>     this is a country based/regional or international)
>  3. Name of Coordinator of Organisation/Network
>  4. Contact Details (including website)
>  5. Name of one Nominee to the Coalition who will speak on
>     administrative matters where it comes to the wider coalition
>
> Should you be interested in the wider Coalition and engaging 
> collaboratively, kindly respond ASAP. There will be communiques sent 
> to a mailing list that will be created that will inform you of events 
> that are happening to enable you to stream the information to your 
> networks and allow for authentic bottom up, grassroots engagement in 
> the diverse regions of the world. This will help enable authentic 
> global civil society engagement and make it truly inclusive.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro
>

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