[governance] NETmundial 2014 - Invitation to HLMC meeting in Barcelona.
Joana Varon
joana at varonferraz.com
Thu Feb 27 04:41:30 EST 2014
Thanks a lot, Stephanie. Any clarification on HLMC roles and workflow?
best
joana
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Carolina Rossini <
carolina.rossini at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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