<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div>A third current initiative worth having on our radars is <b>The High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms</b>. This began as the fifth of Fadi’s “strategy panels” but has evolved to become more independent of ICANN (which still staffs it) under the Chairmanship of Toomas Ilves, the President of Estonia. The Panel comprises 22 senior folks from government, business, the technical community and civil society, including <b>Anriette Esterhuysen,</b> the ED of the Association for Progressive Communications, a NCUC member. In addition, the panel is being supported by a group of ‘experts’ who will work on the text drafting team and coordinate topical work streams. The panel held its first meeting in London in December; info on the agenda and the composition of the panel and the experts is in the press release, <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-13dec13-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-13dec13-en.htm</a>. 3 of said experts are <b>NCUCers—Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Jovan Kuberlaja </b>of Diplo Foundation,<b> and myself. </b> Also included are Sally Wentworth of ISOC, David Gross, and Bertrand de la Chappelle. </div><div><br></div><div>The idea is that the panel will produce a draft short report by our meeting in California at the end of February that will be made available for discussion subsequently, including in Brazil, and will be revised and finalized after the SP meeting. The final product will include recommendations, probably including on the promotion of multistakeholder cooperation both domestically and internationally.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, my understanding is that I’m supposed to coordinate a work stream on participation in global IG processes, especially by developing countries. I’ve encouraged ICANN to be more transparent and inclusive, inter alia by setting up public comment spaces pertaining to the four work streams so we can take on board inputs from around the world. We’ll see if that happens. If so, <b>it would be really good if NCUC were to engage and provide some written inputs etc. </b></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
***********************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> (direct), <a href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">wjdrake@gmail.com</a> (lists),<br> <a href="http://www.williamdrake.org">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************
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