[governance] NETmundial 2014 - Invitation to HLMC meeting in Barcelona.
Carolina Rossini
carolina.rossini at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 14:45:02 EST 2014
Thank you :-)
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Stephanie Perrin <
stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I was not in the room, but on the phone and conference bridge, and I can
> update you from my notes. I am sure that Louis will have a better report,
> but in the meantime:
> Agenda:
>
> 1. Welcome message and Introduction of Participants (5 min)
>
> 2. Initial remarks (15 min)
> - H.E. Neelie Kroes - Vice President of European Commission for the
> Digital Agenda
> - D. Víctor Calvo-Sotelo - Secretary of State for Telecommunications
> and Information Society of Spain (Special Invitee)
> - Minister Paulo Bernardo - Minister of Communications of Brazil
>
> 3. Briefing and Introduction of the NETmundial structure and workflow
> (Secretary Virgílio Almeida) (10 min)
> a. Background
> b. Objectives and expected outcomes
> c. Committees and interactions among them
> d. Content contribution process
> e. Synthesis paper and document drafting
> f. Important dates
> g. HLMC roles and Agenda
>
> 4. Open Floor & Discussion (40 min)
>
> 5. Summary and Closing Remarks (20 min)
>
> 1. There was a slight delay in the start of the meeting. The Minister
> outlined his brief from the President of Brazil, to do the conference in a
> multistakeholder way. He stressed that they needed to come up with
> principles accepted by the stakeholders, and a roadmap for how to get
> there. Our role, as the high-level multi-stakeholder committee, would be
> to set the political tone and foster the involvement of international
> parties. He went over the structure and representatives for each
> committee (slides were promised and I will forward once I receive them).
> The goal is to have a reference document by mid-march
> There will be seven languages, the UN languages plus Portugese. During
> the actual meeting in April, the HLMC and the Chairs of Netmundial will
> seek approval for meeting outputs.
> There was further encouragement to all groups to submit both expressions
> of interest, to attend, and content submissions. Submissions will be
> accepted until March 8, expression of interest only until February 28 (I
> think this is accurate).
> Fifteen cities around the world will be connected to the conference [I
> guess through live streaming] [my apologies if I have mis-named the persons
> speaking, the audio was not always clear and some were speaking through an
> interpreter, I focused on the speech and not the speaker]
> 2. Neelie Kroes spoke next, she said she did not want another talk show,
> she expected Sao Paulo to deliver an agreement and a clear roadmap, with
> concrete actionable milestones. She mentioned the recently released EU
> statement on Internet policy and governance, saying she knew it would be
> hard, but we have to deliver a very clear political statement. She tressed
> the need to globalize the IANA function, and ensure full respect for human
> rights.
> The next speaker was Dirk Brengelmann, who stressed not trying to be too
> political, focus on laying out the markers for the way forward. (had to
> leave for another meeting)
> Representative of the government of South Africa spoke, stressing that
> they had not heard as a government what was going on yet. The business
> person named from South Africa could not speak for the government.
> Tawfik Jelassi from the Tunisian Ministry agreed we did not need another
> talk show, need concrete actions and true multi-stakeholder
> approach.[various others made short statements, but had to rush for their
> planes.]
> Louis Pouzin made an intervention but the audio was not clear so I did not
> catch it, I will let him speak for himself.
> The meeting ended rather abruptly, I did not hear an announcement of when
> the next meeting would be, and have not heard yet from the secretariat. I
> will seek that information now, but as you can see, there are many blanks
> in this report, my apologies for not being there in person but it was short
> notice and far away from Canada.
>
> Stephanie Perrin
> On 2014-02-26, at 11:07 AM, Carolina Rossini wrote:
>
> Dear Louis, could you give us any report back from the meeting?
> Thank you,
> Carol
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Deirdre Williams <
> williams.deirdre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Louis,
>> I hope that the meeting went well.
>> Glad you were there
>> Best wishes
>> Deirdre
>>
>>
>> On 22 February 2014 13:45, Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I received an invitation to the 1st HLC meeting in Barcelona on 24th
>>> Feb. I shall be there.
>>>
>>> Louis
>>>
>>>
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