[NCSG-Discuss] [governance] RE: [bestbits] Rousseff & Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014

Fri Oct 18 22:06:24 EDT 2013

Brazil does have a big delegation this year. Many from CGI.Br are coming.
Also MC&T (which we all have to worry about...)

We will have:
our ambassador Benedicto Fonseca and Everton
Paulo Bernardo (Ministry of Communications)
Virgilio Almeida (Secretary for ICTs, Ministry of Communication)
a representative from ANATEL
a representative from our Ministry of Defense (!)
A big group of counselors from CGI.Br, thankfully, including CA, Percival
Henriques, Demi and others
and civil society:
Joana - CTS/FGV
Joao Caribe
Jorge Machado - GPOPAI/USP and OKF-Br
Carol (me) - New America and board of OKF-Br
etc

Carol

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Eduardo Bertoni <ebertoni at alumni.gwu.edu>wrote:

> Thanks Caro for the info.
>
>  Query: Is Everton the higher rank governmental official attending on
> behalf of Brazil, or Brazil is planning to send a bigger delegation?
>
> Thanks
>
> Eduardo
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Carolina Rossini <
> carolina.rossini at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just want to take the opportunity share with you
>>
>> http://oti.newamerica.net/blogposts/2013/internet_and_statecraft_brazil_and_the_future_of_internet_governance-93553
>>
>> And let you know that Everton Lucero (
>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/everton-lucero/0/448/920) will be here
>> representing Brazil at IGF and (Brazilians hope) moving forward :-)
>>
>> C
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:45 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps of interest
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>> *From: *William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
>>> *Subject: **Re: [NCSG-Discuss] [governance] RE: [bestbits] Rousseff &
>>> Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014*
>>> *Date: *October 19, 2013 9:36:14 AM GMT+08:00
>>> *To: *Milton L Mueller <mueller at SYR.EDU>
>>> *Cc: *NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>>>
>>> Hi Milton
>>>
>>> On Oct 19, 2013, at 1:09 AM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Therefore, I do not agree with more ambitious agendas - or at least, the
>>> more ambitious issues might be discussed, but only if we are able to
>>> develop and apply a workable solution to the more immediate and simpler
>>> problem (ICANN)
>>>
>>>
>>> There's two problems with this.  First, Dilma wants to talk about a
>>> broader agenda, and many other governments have said the same for years in
>>> different ways.  Second, Fadi and the coalition he's coordinating with
>>> wants to talk about a broader agenda.  Both sides have made that clear
>>> recently, and are unlikely to be persuaded to the contrary ex ante by blogs
>>> etc.  Maybe if efforts to discuss the broader issues——the holes in the gov
>>> architecture that CS has been noting since 2003—hit a road block they'll
>>> collapse back to something narrowly focused on ICANN, but I wouldn't
>>> presume it a this point.
>>>
>>> We're all in blue skies guessing land as to where this will go, and
>>> absent clear info a number of folks have been projecting their preferred
>>> narratives onto the space.  So I will too.  I start from the assumption we
>>> should listen to what the powers that be have been saying for quite some
>>> time.  And what I've heard for quite some time now, is
>>>
>>> 1. A change in the AoC that removes or alters the USG roles to be at
>>> best a 'first among equals' in some sense, with greater encouragement to
>>> the GAC to step up.  This has been US policy, so its adoption is not quite
>>> "the world turns its back on USG" and so.  Question of timing and
>>> dynamics—Snowden revelations obviously accelerated things in a wild card
>>> way that was not envisioned or desired.
>>>
>>> 2. A parallel change to the USG role in the IANA contract cutting ICANN
>>> looser and spinning toward GAC oversight.
>>>
>>> 3.  Consideration of some sort of new multistakeholder process for
>>> orphaned issues etc.  This could prove the hardest, as one assumes G77 and
>>> China will still want a UN basis, which wouldn't be congenial to I-orgs et
>>> al.
>>>
>>> The first two pieces are easy enough to imagine, although they will be
>>> difficult for the USG to sell domestically.  Obama hardly needs the Tea
>>> Party and libertarian/conservative think tanks running around
>>> hyperventilating about him being the "man who gave away the Internet" at
>>> this moment, especially before the mid-term elections.  And there'd have to
>>> be a lot of hand holding viz. Versign and other contracted parties, major
>>> corporate users, US agencies, and nervous allies, to assure them nothing's
>>> seriously changed re: stability and security.
>>>
>>> The third one's anyone's guess.  No new IGOs has been the mantra.  CSTD
>>> is obviously too feeble to be of any use.  So something else that can pass
>>> muster with governments—?  And obviously, there can't be ICANN mission
>>> creep here, although there will probably be Fadi creep…ICANN will have to
>>> be a supportive partner in some manner.  I'd have preferred appending a
>>> working group mechanism to the IGF to strengthen its' role, but a lot of
>>> people remain fixed on preserving its pristine status as a dialogue space
>>> full stop given the no-membership problem etc.
>>>
>>> There's also talk, e.g. Dilma, about some new multilateral overlay on
>>> certain issues.  That too would run into standard UN divisions unless it's
>>> a pretty generic statement of principles.  This could make Wolfgang's Focus
>>> Session on Principles, as well as the first FC led by Brazil, particularly
>>> interesting.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> *Carolina Rossini*
>> *Project Director, Latin America Resource Center*
>> Open Technology Institute
>> *New America Foundation*
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