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

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Thanks from me too for the summary Farzaneh. I am pleased that this is
happening.. thanks a lot to those who are making/made the effort. I look
forward to trying to be more active in this online space (hopefully best
bits and governance will merge).

Anriette

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Anriette Esterhuysen
Senior advisor on internet governance, policy advocacy and strategic planning
Association for Progressive Communications
apc.org
afrisig.org
anriette at apc.org

On 2018/12/17 10:33, Michael J. Oghia wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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