[governance] NETmundial 2014 - Official Minutes and slides 1st HLMC meeting

[Stephanie Perrin]

We just received the minutes and slides from the first HLMC meeting.  
regards,
Stephanie Perrin

On 2014-02-28, at 9:04 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:

> Report on the 1st meeting of the High Level Multistakeholder Committee (HLMC) of “NETmundial” . . .
> 
> . . . (www.netmundial.org), the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance that will take place in São Paulo, Brazil on April 23-24, 2014. 
> 
> Report written by Louis Pouzin, civil society member of the HLMC.
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> 
> I was invited by the HLMC chairman, Paulo Bernardo Silva, Minister of Communications of Brazil [1]. I flew from Paris to attend this meeting.
> 
> The attendance list (courtesy Daniel Fink) is in [2].
> A man was sitting behind a name tag "Turkey".
> 
> The audio system was not working, and the air conditioning was quite noisy. Then it was uneasy to follow conversations from the other end of the table.
> 
> Stephanie Perrin's report gives an excellent perception of the overall content. Actually, besides usual generalities on the São Paulo Mundial, the presentation of the organizational structure and deadlines for contributions were simply confirmations of already published information.
> 
> One may notice that there was no development on a roadmap, even though it had been mentioned as an objective of the present meeting.
> 
> At some point Tarek Kamel (ICANN) used the term "mondialisation" instead of "globalization".
> 
> Daniel Sepulveda's (USA) declaration was likely a reading of the text from http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/prsrl/2014/221946.htm. His speech seemed to me a bit shorter than the text, but I could recognize some statements.
> 
> As the meeting seemed approaching a conclusion I made an intervention summarized as follows.
> 
> Principles for a future internet governance are debated in many groups of the civil society. Even though wordings may differ the substance is definitely converging towards a set of a dozen (more or less) principles. For brevity I will mention a sample of the ones being presently drafted for Net Mundial.
> 
> 1- On-line users must enjoy the same human rights as they do off-line.
> 
> 2- There must not be discrimination in access and contents due to criteria such as opinion, religion, race, gender, geography, language, or economic resources.
> 
> 3- Services offered in the internet must remain equitable and neutral among service providers, without taking unfair advantage of a dominant or privileged position.
> 
> 4- Internet availability, deployment, and service conditions must benefit all segments of the human society, not just those enjoying richer economic development.
> 
> 5- A special effort must be engaged in order to provide the Less Developed Countries with an equitable share of resources to participate in activities related to worldwide internet governance.
>   
>   Louis
> 
> Attachments.
> 
> [1] invitation
> [2] attendance list
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> <09 - Invitation - HLC BCN.pdf><Attendance_list.rtf>____________________________________________________________
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