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

Mon Dec 17 09:02:12 EST 2018

This will be a discussion to happen at the CSCG level on the necessity
or the opportunity to bring in new CS groups, which i personally
welcome as a great idea.

The CSCG ought to be inclusive of all the major civil society groups.

2018-12-17 15:47 UTC+02:00, Nadira Alaraj <nadira.araj at gmail.com>:
> Thank you Arsene for your follow up on the CSCG,
> Yes, the number of CS groups will be reduced to 4 if the merge will
> happens.
> However, I  would like to bring to your attention that during my role at
> the CSCG, Ian Peter was chairing a committee that we worked to introduce a
> procedures for New CSCG member.
> http://internetgov-cs.org/procedures#C
>
> There would be possibility to add a new global CS as the 5th members and
> that could be IG for Youth.
> I'm not sure how organized the youth group would be and if it satisfies the
> thoroughly discussed procedure for new member.
> Best,
> Nadira
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 14:50 Arsène Tungali <arsenebaguma at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks Farzaneh for starting this thread and thanks everyone who took
>> the time to attend the call.
>>
>> Thanks also for offering to give a hand of support with some task
>> within the IGC, we will take this discussion (as well as the one on
>> merging) to the IGC list soon for a more elaborate discussion.
>>
>> And please do share the recording to give everyone an idea of what was
>> discussed.
>>
>> I wanted to offer a quick reaction to Nadira and Michael's comments.
>>
>> During the call, we did not discuss much about the CSCG which is a
>> coordination group where IGC is a member, alongside other members such
>> as APC, Just Net Coalition, Best Bits and the ICANN's NCSG.
>>
>> About the merging question, this one will affect (if it happens), the
>> number of CSCG members but the CSCG itself cannot be merged with
>> anything (keeping this within the context). If BB and IGC merge, then
>> the CSCG will now have 4 members than 5.
>>
>> R. Hill who is co chair of the CSCG said that once the merging
>> question is cleared, then only a discussion within CSCG's structure
>> and future will happen.
>>
>> Bruna and I, as IGC co-cos agreed to start a discussion within the IGC
>> to explore the possibilities of merging IGC with BB.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arsene
>>
>> 2018-12-17 10:33 UTC+02:00, "Michael J. Oghia" <
>> governance at lists.riseup.net>:
>> > 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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Co-Founder & Executive Director, *Rudi international
<http://www.rudiinternational.org>*,
CEO,* Smart Services Sarl <https://www.smart-kitoko.com/>*,
Tel: +243 993810967
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<http://tungali.blogspot.com/2015/06/selected-for-2015-mandela-washington.html>
(YALI) - ISOC Ambassador (IGF Brazil
<http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/igf-ambassadors-programme/Past-Ambassadors>
& Mexico
<http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/Current-Ambassadors>)
- AFRISIG 2016 <http://afrisig.org/afrisig-2016/class-of-2016/> - Blogger
<http://tungali.blogspot.com> - ICANN's GNSO Council
<https://gnso.icann.org/en/about/gnso-council.htm> Member. AFRINIC Fellow (
Mauritius
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