[governance] Re: [bestbits] press release about meeting of the high level panel
Carolina Rossini
carolina.rossini at gmail.com
Sat Dec 14 05:43:23 EST 2013
any reports back from that meeting already?
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:
> http://www.telegraphindia.com/pressrelease/prnw/en33449.html
> --
>
> High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms
> Convenes in London
>
> PR Newswire
>
> LONDON, Dec. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Panel on Global Internet
> Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms -- a diverse group of global
> stakeholders from government, civil society, the private sector, the
> technical community and international organizations -- held their first
> meeting in London to discuss global Internet cooperation and governance
> mechanisms. The Panel expressed strong support for a multistakeholder
> approach to the future of Internet governance. The conversations held at
> the London meeting were facilitated by a team of Internet governance
> experts. The discussion will be taken online in the coming days at 1Net.org.
>
> "The world relies on the Internet for economic, social, and political
> progress. It is imperative to ensure emerging issues are properly addressed
> in a global context, without individual governments or intergovernmental
> organizations developing their own solutions," said Estonian President
> Toomas Hendrik Ilves and chair of the Panel.
>
> "The success of the Internet is rooted in a distributed and bottom-up
> model, with openness and collaboration at its core," said Vint Cerf,
> vice-chair of the Panel. "The inaugural meeting of the Panel brought
> together a diverse set of perspectives on the future of the Internet, and
> through this diversity I'm confident we can chart a course to protect the
> core of the current ecosystem, while evolving its methods, accessibility,
> and universality to meet the opportunities and challenges of the future."
>
> In keeping with its mission, the first meeting of the Panel addressed
> desirable properties for global Internet cooperation, administration and
> governance. The Panel will conduct two additional meetings in the coming
> months. The next meeting, scheduled for late February 2014 in Rancho
> Mirage, California, will be hosted by The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands.
> Sunnylands is partnering with the Panel in its substantive work. Following
> this meeting, a high-level draft report will then be released for open
> consultation. A final meeting will be hosted by the World Economic Forum in
> May 2014 in Dubai. During this meeting, the Panel will consider community
> feedback and discussions at forums including the Global Multistakeholder
> Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance in Braziland the Freedom
> Online Coalition's conference in Tallinn, Estonia. A high-level report will
> be published at the conclusion of the May meeting, and is expected to cover
> the following areas:
>
> • A brief overview of the current Internet governance ecosystem
> • Opportunities and challenges facing the current ecosystem
> • Desirable ecosystem properties including:
> • Ecosystem legitimacy
> • Effective and inclusive multi-interest and
> consensus-based system
> • Ensuring global participation including from the
> developing world
> • Co-existence with other governance systems (national and
> multi-lateral) ensuring a stable system that is not prone to attack,
> mismanagement, and manipulation
> Panel members are working in their personal capacity. Members consist of:
>
> • Mohamed Al Ghanim, Founder and Director General of the UAE
> Telecommunications Regulatory Authority; former Vice-Chair, UAE Information
> and Communications Technology Fund; Chairman of WCIT-12
> • Virgilio Fernandes Almeida, Member of the Brazilian Academy of
> Sciences; Chair of Internet Steering Committee; National Secretary for
> Information Technology Policies
> • Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy,
> Walt Disney Company
> • Mitchell Baker, Chair, Mozilla Foundation; Chair and former CEO,
> Mozilla Corporation
> • Francesco Caio, CEO of Avio; former CEO, Cable and Wireless and
> Vodafone Italia; Founder of Netscalibur; broadband advisor in UK and Italy;
> Government Commissioner for Digital Agenda
> • Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for
> Google; former Chairman, ICANN; Co-Founder of the Internet Society
> • Fadi Chehade, CEO and President of ICANN; Founder of Rosetta
> Net; technology executive
> • Nitin Desai, Indian economist and diplomat; former UN
> Undersecretary General; convener of Working Group on Internet Governance
> (WGIG)
> • Byron Holland, President and CEO of the Canadian Internet
> Registration Authority
> • Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia; former diplomat and
> journalist; former Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Member of the
> European Parliament
> • Ivo Ivanovski, Minister of Information Society and
> Administration, Macedonia; Commissioner to the UN Broadband Commission for
> Digital Development
> • Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe;
> former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Norway
> • Omobola Johnson, Minister of Communication Technology of Nigeria
> • Olaf Kolkman, Director of NLnet Labs; "Evangineer" of the Open
> Internet; former Chair of the Internet Architecture Board
> • Frank La Rue, labor and human rights lawyer; UN Special
> Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of
> Opinion and Expression; Founder, Center for Legal Action for Human Rights
> (CALDH)
> • Robert M. McDowell, former U.S. Federal Communications
> Commissioner; Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute's Center for Economics of
> the Internet
> • Andile Ngcaba, Chairman and Founder, Convergence Partners;
> Executive Chairman, Dimension Data Middle East and Africa; former South
> African Government Director General of Communications
> • Liu Qingfeng, CEO and President of iFLYTEK; Director of National
> Speech & Language Engineering Laboratory of China; Member of Interactive
> Technology Standards working group
> • Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society;
> telecoms and IT executive
> • Jimmy Wales, Founder and Promoter of Wikipedia; Member of the
> Board of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation
> • Won-Pyo Hong, President, Media Solution Center, Samsung
> Electronics
>
>
> London Panel Agenda
>
> December 13
>
> 09:00 -- 11:00
>
> Backgrounder
>
> Expert presentations on Internet Cooperation and
> Governance to cover:
>
> -- History of Internet cooperation and overview of
> current ecosystem
>
> Speaker: Vint Cerf
>
> -- Nature and scope of global Internet governance
>
> Speaker: William Drake
>
> -- Current system opportunities and challenges:
> ( this includes legitimacy and mandate challenges,
> challenges for global participation and inclusion)
>
> Speaker: David Gross & Bertrand de la Chapelle
>
> 11:00 -- 11:15
>
> Break
>
> 11:15 -- 12:00
>
> Backgrounder Q&A Session
>
> 12:00 -- 13:00
>
> Lunch
>
> 13:00 -- 14:30
>
> Developing Desirable System Properties
>
> Panel is split into the following four proposed tracks,
> each moderated by an Internet Governance expert:
>
>
> -- Desirable properties for ecosystem legitimacy
>
> Moderator: David Gross
>
> -- Desirable properties for an effective and inclusive
> multi-interest & consensus-based system
>
> Moderator: Sally Wentworth
>
> -- Desirable properties to ensure global participation
> including from developing world
>
> Moderator: William Drake
>
> -- Desirable properties for co-existence with other
> governance systems (national and multi-lateral)
> ensuring a stable system that is not prone to attack,
> mismanagement, and manipulation.
>
> Moderator: Wolfgang Kleinwachter
>
> 14:30 -- 14:45
>
> Break
>
> 14:45 -- 17:30
>
> Joint Observations
>
> Panel members, moderated by experts, coalesce
> around a set of overall joint observations on the
> desirable system properties
>
> 17:30 -- 17:45
>
> Break
>
> 17:45 -- 18:30
>
> Wrap-up
>
>
> Panel members discuss next steps, timelines/dates,
> communication rules and modus operandi for panel
>
> About The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands
> The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, which operates The Annenberg
> Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, is an independent
> 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating entity. The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands
> hosts high-level retreats that address serious issues facing the nation and
> the world, including the recent official meeting between President Obama
> and President Xi of the People's Republic of China. In addition, Sunnylands
> offers programs through the Sunnylands Center & Gardens to educate the
> public about the history of Sunnylands, its architecture, art collections,
> cultural significance, and sustainable practices.
>
> About ICANN
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an
> internationally organised, non-profit corporation that has responsibility
> for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier
> assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name
> system management, and root server system management functions. As a
> private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the
> operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to
> achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to
> developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up,
> consensus-based processes. For more information please visit:
> http://www.icann.org/.
>
> About The World Economic Forum
> The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization
> committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in
> partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
>
> Incorporated as a foundation in 1971 and headquartered in Geneva,
> Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it
> is tied to no political, partisan or national interests (
> http://www.weforum.org/).
>
> Editor's Note: The Panel was previously referred to as the Panel on the
> Future of Global Internet Cooperation.
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*Carolina Rossini*
*Project Director, Latin America Resource Center*
Open Technology Institute
*New America Foundation*
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