[governance] HLLM in LOndon - CS reps

Fri Nov 29 17:10:58 EST 2013

There has been a hint that Civil Society may want to take the opportunity
of RightsCon.
http://www.rightscon.org/

What do you think?

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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> The HLLM is convened by the ICANN CEO who has control over whom he
> invites. It is unclear whether ICANN intends to have civil society
> represented, that is those from outside the ICANN community. Earlier
> messages from William Drake to this list suggested that only one slot was
> open even though some pushed for two slots. Some civil society
> Organizations demanded inclusion despite not being involved within the
> ICANN community.
>
> Any discussion in global circles purporting to be Multi stakeholder must
> also to some degree represent the community including those outside of
> ICANN. ICANN espouses Accountability and Transparency and takes great pride
> in doing so. I suspect that the At Large community within ICANN will be
> filling one civil society slot and the other tossed to us. The seats may
> already be filled.
>
> However, Robin from ICANN's Non Commercial Stakeholder Group which is the
> arm in ICANN that carries civil society voices has been liaising with ICANN
> CEO.
>
> The reality is that they may even reject both the names that was furnished
> to them. The ratio of public sector, private sector and civil society is
> not balanced as it currently is.
>
> There were many names for consideration but after careful dialogue amongst
> the different groups, two names that received overwhelming support were
> Anriette and Milton. They will steward the views of global civil society as
> they dialogue. we wish them well should they choose to accept the
> responsibility.
>
> Whilst this HLLM is underway, what are your thoughts about potentially
> convening a High Level Meeting where we can have more diverse inclusion of
> civil society, business constituency, technical constituency, governments
> and intergovernmental organisations etc. If there is interest, it could be
> facilitated by a widely respected neutral facilitator like Jovan Kurbalija
> of Diplo Foundation.
>
> The meeting could be jointly convened by an organising committee that
> represents civil society, technical community, business community,
> governments etc. I am aware that the HLLM is "ICANN owned" and driven. If
> they only give us one seat or two to comfort us, we should seriously
> consider the possibilities of organising our own High Level Meeting that is
> Inclusive, Collaborative and allows for dynamic discussion to take place.
>  In fairness to ICANN, the HLLM is part of an internal process designed to
> discuss strategies pertaining to ICANN's mandate.
>
> If there is appetite to do this, we can certainly consider working towards
> achieving this prior to Brazil. This does not have to be a complex affair
> but a simple meeting that can be globally streamed into where there is a
> social media strategy to monitor the input and more importantly where views
> can be heard. In turn, this can be consolidated for retroactive engagement
> with communities on the ground until we have a sound document that is both
> grassroots and community driven. I believe that amongst the civil society
> organizations, we are networked enough to pull this off.
>
> Alternatively another model could be used where we keep the discussions
> regionally and allow for the dialogue to take place in each region.
>
> Some of the discussions are important to have but I do not see why we
> should be hurried by the Brazilian timeline. This is not to say that the
> IGC will not be contributing to the discussions as we will. There are
> clearly many concerns that the wider community has and these issues need to
> be aired in relevant and appropriate forums.
>
> In the not too distant future, the IGC will be invited to start preparing
> its submissions for Brazil on wide and diverse areas pertaining to Internet
> Governance.
>
> Keep watching the space.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sala
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 30, 2013, at 9:50 AM, "Ian Peter" <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>
>  Please find a letter just send to Fadi Chehade under my signatory as an
> independent facilitator as regards civil society representation at this
> meeting in two weeks time.
>
> Let me be the first to admit the process was imperfect, the result was
> imperfect. But so was the task we were given, the timeframe,  the people
> involved in making the decision, and the facilitation process.
>
> I can only say that there was widespread agreement we should submit names,
> and for the names submitted. And that doing and saying nothing would have
> been the alternative in this timeframe.
>
>
> Ian Peter
>
>
> 29 November 2013
> RE: Civil Society Representation on High Level Panel in London
>
> Dear Fadi and Nora:
>
> I am writing to you following from discussions held by a coalition of
> representatives of the
> civil society networks most involved in Internet governance deliberations,
> we appreciate your
> willingness to engage civil society in discussions regarding the future of
> Internet
> governance. We also appreciate your recognition that civil society is
> under-represented on
> your High Level Panel and your willingness to accept additional civil
> society participants to
> this panel to provide more balance.
> After consultations with our networks, we propose adding the following 2
> civil society
> representatives to begin to balance against the much larger numbers from
> government, the
> private sector, and technical representatives placed on the initial panel.
> Civil society’s two nominated representatives for the London High Level
> Panel are:
> 1. Anriette Esterhuysen (anriette at apc.org)
> 2. Milton Mueller (mueller at syr.edu)
> Would you please kindly confirm your acceptance of these names, and
> contact our
> representatives directly to arrange their participation?
> We also strongly recommend the involvement of Jovan Kurbalija of the Diplo
> Foundation as
> a highly experienced and knowledgeable facilitator.
> We trust that in future we will be able to look at much more equitable
> representation of civil
> society in such panels and committees.
> Persons involved with these deliberations and choice of names from various
> civil society
> networks were:
> Virginia Paque, Diplo Foundation
> Anriette Esterhuysen, Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
> Robin Gross, ICANN's Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG)
> Norbert Bollow and Salanieta Tamanikaiwaimaro, Internet Governance Caucus
> (IGC)
> Jeremy Malcolm, Best Bits
> Signed,
> Ian Peter, Independent Facilitator
>
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