[governance] Fw: NMI and the Brazilian CGI.br

[Ian Peter]

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From: Hartmut Richard Glaser
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 5:35 AM
To: Hartmut Glaser
Subject: NMI and the Brazilian CGI.br


To all of you directly and indirectly involved with the lively debate
that has been observed within the Internet governance circles
surrounding the NETmundial Initiative (NMI), would like to clarify the
following:

1)There are two main reasons for CGI.br to embark on the NETmundial
Initiative.

a) CGI.br is moved by a strong, crystal-clear and well known commitment
to the preservation, the promotion and the implementation of the
principles and the roadmap that were adopted in São Paulo during the
Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance -
NETmundial. As long as CGI.br is involved in any activity, process or
institution related to the global governance of the Internet, there will
be a group of 21 board members representatives of the broader Internet
community in Brazil, assisted by a deeply committed Secretariat, working
for the promotion of the achievements of the NETmundial meeting earlier
this year.Instead of watching from a distant perspective the different
processes and environments that comprise the complex distributed IG
ecosystem, CGI.br members have been actively engaged with a myriad of
other stakeholders and the community as a whole in the different spaces
within which Internet governance is dealt with. CGI.br is committed to
raise a voice whenever there can by any unjustified reversion on the
thresholds set by NETmundial for Internet governance, namely:
collaboration, openness, transparency, and multistakeholderism by default.

b) Brazil is to host the 2015 IGF. CGI.br is closely working with the
Brazilian government in order to assure that the 10th edition of the IGF
yields all the results that were normatively set by the community in
2014 in different occasions: the renewal of its mandate in the UNGA
later this year; the strengthening of its role as the focal point for
the community; the assurance of funding sources, and the harmonization
of activities of the IGF with the different initiatives that are
sprouting (nationally, regionally, and globally) since the Community
issued the NETmundial Statement.

2) From its inception, CGI.br has been willing to dialogue and of work
together with every single member of the Community who is willing to
promote, reflect upon, strengthen, and enhance multistakeholderism. The
NMI is one among those efforts and can contribute to those goals by
publicizing ideas and connecting people from all over the world using a
single Web platform. Anything additional to the development and the
maintenance of the platform shall be a result of the Initiative after it
is set up. Bearing that in mind, on behalf of all of the members of the
Board of CGI.br, we would like to invite all stakeholders to join the
effort of building NMI based on the spirit and the aspirations of the
community in a collaborative manner.

3) The NETmundial Initiative is in its formation. The whole
institutionalization of NMI shall be community-driven. That is why the
Transitional Council, as soon as it got a request from the Civil Society
Coordination Group (CSCG),  accepted to work together with the CSCG to
come up with a solution for defining Civil Society names for the NMI
Council by consensus and fully respecting the indications of Civil
Society. It is important to say that CGI.br is pretty confident that if
any other group of stakeholders approach the Transition Council with
similar solutions to strengthen the process, the Council will be
willingly open to recognize and implement them as a way of putting the
community at the center of the process of shaping the ulterior
composition of the NMI Council.

Finally, let us reaffirm that CGI.br would never agree with top-down,
closed decision-making processes that could possibly undermine its
legitimacy as a true bottom-up, multistakeholder body. It is up for the
community to transform NMI into something that is concrete and useful
for the advancement of IG in full respects of the principles enshrined
in the NETmundial declaration.

Best regards,

Virgílio Almeida
Coordinator of the Board of the CGI.br - Representative nominated by the
Federal Government

Demi Getschko
Member of the Board of CGI.br, nominated as Internet Expert

Carlos A. Afonso
Member of the Board of CGI.br, representative of the Third Sector

Flávio Wagner
Member of the Board of CGI.br, representative of the scientific and
technological community and Selected member for the MAG/IGF 2015

Eduardo Parajo
Member of the Board of CGI.br, representative of the business sector -
Internet access and content providers

Hartmut Glaser
Executive Secretary of the Board of the CGI.br



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