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

[Michael J. Oghia" (via governance Mailing List]

He everyone,

Thank you for this summary Farzi. I think Nadira makes a good point about
looking into that. I'm it sure how each of these three organisations are
structured, but perhaps we should consider consolidation of all three (if
possible).

Best,
-Michael


On Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 11:09 PM Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj at gmail.com wrote:

> 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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