[governance] [bestbits] End of the year civil society meeting/ briefing

[Nadira Alaraj (via governance Mailing List)]

Thank you Farzaneh for your briefing.

I would like to comment on the merging consequences that it will affect the
structure of the
http://internetgov-cs.org or the CSCG. The objective of  "The CSCG has
co-operated with such bodies as international Telecomunication Union,
WSIS+10, UNDESA, Internet Governance Forum, CSTD Working Group on Enhanced
Cooperation, Netmundial Conference and Intiative and 1Net Initiative to
nominate a diverse range of civil society members as speakers and members
of committees and working groups"

I'm not sure if CSCG structure have been discussed or not. It would be good
to look into as well.
Best,
Nadira

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 23:10 farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We had a good online meeting with up to 25 civil society members in
> attendance on 13 December. I have the recording I can share with you. (I
> have asked if sharing the recording was ok with the participants there was
> no objection, but I give it a couple of more days before I share the
> recording)
>
> There was a brief overview of what was done during last year in venues
> such as RightsCon etc.
> The issues that were discussed (as much as I remember):
>
> We also discussed the merge of IGC and BestBits. It was decided that the
> co-coordinator of BB and IGC discuss and give a couple of weeks deadline to
> come to a conclusion on whether a merge would be good.
>
> the suggestion to merge comes from the fact that civil society IG
> activities (especially at IGF) became fragmented. We need to pool our
> resources and I think Jeremy mentioned that the reasons behind the creation
> of BB are not around anymore. I believe we should make a decision on that
> soon hopefully and start pooling our resources into one effort.
>
> The idea of mapping initiatives and focal points:
> To keep things going and be more active in 2019, it would be good to map
> initiatives (Collin Kurre from Article 19 has good ideas about that)
>
> I also suggested that we have focal points for each event or forum if we
> want to for example organize a session or be more coordinated in our
> efforts.
>
> I volunteered to help IGC with coordination for  IGF 2019, and civil
> society pre-event. I will also help IGC with drafting something a public
> comment for IGF taking stock call.
>
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
>
>
> Farzaneh
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