[governance] CS strategic objectives in Internet governance

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 31/10/13 20:18, Adam Peake wrote:
>> At least one such group is indeed in the process of forming itself, or
>> at least trying to do so. I'm attaching the best information that I have
>> available, which is the meeting report from a meeting on Friday that
>> has been circulated on the BestBits list.
> Thanks. Looks more like the Brazil coordinators, good.  But if bestbits is taking on such tasks it really does need to be more transparent -- ok to use small groups to draft documents, but not to design process and representation.  Perhaps Jeremy could explain how bestbits works and what its doing.

The best way to stay abreast of what we're doing is to join our list,
which you have, so I won't repeat everything that you've already read. 
But in a nutshell, following the I* meeting at which... well I'm not
going to repeat the "p**** g***" terminology because some people didn't
like hearing that, but anyway - we organised an ad hoc civil society
meeting at which Fadi Chehadé attended to attempt to assuage our concerns.

The main decision that we made before he arrived was to put forward the
names of the four Brazilian civil society delegates, who had already
volunteered as liaisons with the Brazilian government over the summit,
to also be liaisons with the I* coalition/platform.  And Joana has since
posted an update of what has been going in on the closed list of that
coalition/platform (note: that's not a Best Bits closed list, it's an I*
closed list).

Going forward, everyone (including the existing delegates) are agreed
that we need to nominate more people, and to find a way of doing that
across broader civil society, not just within Best Bits.  Indeed Norbert
raised the same as an agenda item some time ago, and there was
discussion of it at the IGC workshop in Bali (that I missed
unfortunately).  So I don't think there is any intention for closed
groups to be deciding on process and representation.

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