[governance] Update on NMI

[Deirdre Williams]

Thank you Ian.
Deirdre

On 1 April 2015 at 13:48, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

>   This is just a quick update on the NetMundial Initiative (NMI). Please
> feel free to copy to other lists.
>
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>
> As many of you will already know, NMI Coordination Council (CC) has just
> held its first working meeting at Stanford University in Palo Alto on March
> 31. A list of those who attended can be found at the end of the draft
> Communique at
> https://www.netmundial.org/blog/secretariat/netmundial-initiative-stanford-communiqu%C3%A9.
>
>
> In addition to those attending,  Bill Drake and Anriette Esterhuysen (CC
> members) were able to participate remotely for at least part of the
> day-long meeting, on sometimes shaky remote connections. Many other people
> took advantage of the opportunity to listen in on deliberations.
>
> The main formal output of the meeting is a Draft Terms of Reference, which
> is now open for public comments at http://comments.netmundial.org/. The
> platform used for comments is that used for the original NetMundial event
> last year in Brazil.
>
> I would encourage people to comment on the document and help make it
> better.
>
> A few personal observations; I am pleased that we were able to maintain in
> the opening paragraph references to human rights and to managing the
> internet in the public interest, despite some suggestions that these
> references might be removed. However; I was personally disappointed that in
> the process of arriving at mutually agreeable text in a short period of
> time references to cybersecurity and mass surveillance were taken out of
> the text; I expected some opposition to the latter, but I think the
> cybersecurity references are vitally important and I am sure some well
> crafted words can make their way into the final text. There are many ways
> in which the text (and more importantly the initiative itself) can be
> strengthened, and I would particularly draw your attention also to the
> section on Scope, where further clarity and suggestions could assist
> substantial improvements.
>
> The current plan is for the document to be finally adopted at a first
> meeting of the full Council (the meeting above was described as a “working
> meeting”). Current planning suggests this might be in Costa Rica in June.
> But that might change given availability of some of the governmental and
> corporate people involved.
>
> The meeting also got to talk about some operational issues. Since the
> formation of the Coordination Council progress has been fairly slow,
> perhaps largely because of the lack of structure and leadership, as well as
> a lack of trust. Some small working groups were set up and most likely some
> other operational structural issues will be addressed as a result of this.
>
> I should also mention that to date the progress has been very co-operative
> across all sectors involved, and indeed on most discussions you would not
> have unanimity of opinion within any stakeholder group; but rather a
> variety of opinions. I expect the same to be the case during the public
> consultations, but I also expect that the process of hearing many voices
> and gaining wider input will substantially clarify and improve the
> document. Many people are undecided about NMI at this stage, which is to be
> expected; and whatever it might be should appropriately derive from public
> inputs. So I urge you to follow the link above and help to shape this
> initiative to take an appropriate role moving forward.
>
> One more thing I should add is the role that Marilia Maciel has played to
> date, chairing the series of online meetings which developed the Draft
> Terms of Reference. Marilia had to manage a diverse and overly large group,
> many differing opinions as to what NMI is or should be, poor connections
> and dropouts on all calls, language issues, geopolitical game playing, and
> unruly participants. She did a great job!
>
>
>
> Ian Peter
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