[governance] URGENT: Last call for feedback on CS participation in NETmundial Initiative

[Mawaki Chango]

Fellas,
Some of us have raised questions about the views of the Brazilian party
(CGI.br) in this NMI business. But I know they are in a delicate position
and may be concerned to appear as judge and jury if they come out strong
for a position (and we can expect which that position would be.) Flavio is
not on the IGC list but he granted me the permission to forward to this
list this message of his below, originally posted to the Non-Commercial
Stakeholder Group of ICANN's GNSO.
Best,

Mawaki


Fw: [NCSG-Discuss] UPDATE ON CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION IN NET MUNDIAL
INITIATIVE

On Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:55 AM, Flávio Rech Wagner <
flavio at INF.UFRGS.BR> wrote:


Robin

I have been informed that the "transitional council" of the NMI -
NETmundial Initiative (which contains representatives from ICANN, CGI.br
and WEF and is provisory, until the 25 names of the permanent council have
been defined) is having an intense dialogue with CSCG (the Civil Society
Coordination Group) and, together, they shall come to a solution for
appointing names to the council by consensus and fully respecting
nominations from Civil Society. There is no intention whatsoever from the
transitional council to indicate names in a closed, top-down manner and
without full endorsement from CSCG.

The transitional council also expects to achieve similar solutions for
appointing names that will represent other stakeholder groups.

Please notice that CGI.br (the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee),
which is one of the entities proposing the NMI, would never agree with
top-down, closed decisions that would strongly undermine CGI's legitimacy
as a true bottom-up, multistakeholder body. CGI.br is completely committed
to preserve the NETmundial principles in the implementation of the NMI.

Please remember also that, when NETmundial was proposed by the end of 2013,
all of us in the global Internet Governance (IG) community, because of lack
of information, were puzzled about its organization and possible success
and outcomes. But the global community faced the challenge and transformed
a vague idea into a successful event, with a true multistakeholder
organization, with very open and transparent processes, and with a final
document that was achieved by rough consensus and approved governance
principles that were praised by most of the stakeholders (including human
rights and other principles that are extremely valued by Civil Society).

So let's try to transform NMI, which is still also a vague idea, into
something that is concrete and useful for the advancement of IG and that
fully respects the principles enshrined in the NETmundial declaration.

Flávio
(NCUC member and member of the Board of CGI.br)
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