<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 second interesting initiative to have on our radars is <b>The Global Multi-stakeholder Conference on Internet Cooperation</b> that has been co-initiated by the President of Brazil and Fadi, and will take place in Sao Paulo April 22-23. According to NCUCer Carlos Afonso, who is on the <a href="http://CGI.br">CGI.br</a> Local Organization Group (LOG) in Brazil, the meeting agenda could include</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">- Official launching of a review process of the global IG frameworks/models;<br><br>- Development of a set of universally acceptable core of principles for<br>global IG;<br><br>- Tentative draft of a global IG model.<br></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>All rather ambitious, controversial, and to be refined in the weeks ahead. However the precise agenda shapes up, this should be a consequential meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>It is envisaged that the SP meeting will be attended by hundreds of governmental and stakeholders reps and will offer good remote participation for those unable to be there live. Carlos has provided an initial explanation of the modalities at <a href="http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-December/000098.html">http://1net-mail.1net.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-December/000098.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>The previously mentioned 1Net steering committee’s immediate task is to receive from the stakeholder groups and forward to the Brazilian LOG the representatives they’ve selected for two of its conference committees:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Dec 21, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Carlos A. Afonso <<a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca">ca@cafonso.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>2. High Level Multistakeholder Committee<br><br>The HLMC will be responsible for overseeing the political articulations<br>and for encouraging the participation of the international community.<br><br>It will be composed of government representatives of 12 countries<br>(precise list still being established by the BR government) plus 12<br>non-govs, and two representatives of UN agencies to be chosen by the<br>UNSG. The 12 non-govs include four of each non-gov stakeholder (civil<br>society, academia/techies, private sector). All of the non-gov, non-UN<br>stakeholders' names will be brought to the LOG by 1Net. So the HLC will<br>be composed of 26 people.<br><br>The HLMC will have four co-chairs, keeping the multistakeholder balance.<br>One of the co-chairs will be Brazil's Minister of Communications Paulo<br>Bernardo.<br><br>So civil society needs to indicate to 1Net Steering Committee four<br>high-level reps as soon as possible.<br><br>3. Executive Multistakeholder Committee<br><br>The EMC will be responsible for organizing the event, including the<br>discussion and implementation of the agenda, and the selection of the<br>participants and the various stakeholders' proposals. The crucial part<br>of the preparation process resides here, in close coordination with the<br>Logistics Committee, so people selected for the EMC ought to make<br>themselves readily available for this challenge.<br><br>The LOG has already selected the eight Brazilian members of the EMC.<br>There will be four co-chairs as well, and names already appointed are<br>Demi Getschko (CEO of <a href="http://nic.br/">NIC.br</a>) and Raúl Echeberría (to be confirmed, CEO<br>of LACNIC). A representative of an international agency will be<br>appointed as well (by the coordinating body of the UN agencies) to<br>participate.<br><br>Like the HLMC, non-gov, non-UN members of the EMC will be brought to the<br>LOG by 1Net.<br><br>For the EMC civil society needs to indicate to 1Net Steering Committee<br>two names as soon as possible.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>A civil society selection committee has been formed, with reps of the following CS networks <b>(NCUCers in bold): </b>Internet Governance Caucus (?), <b>Diplo Foundation</b> (<b>Virginia Paque</b>), Best Bits (Jeremy Malcolm), the Non Commercial Stakeholder Group (<b>Robin Gross</b>), and the <b>Association for Progressive Communications</b> (<b>Chat Garcia Ramilo</b>), with Ian Peter as a facilitator. They need to identify civil society nominees for these two important conference committees. If they cannot identify anyone appropriate from within the ICANN civil society space, they will have to consider only folks from those parts of CS@IG that don’t participate in ICANN. Exactly how many names are needed is unclear, pending a definitive answer from the LOG about the desired distribution oaf slots per stakeholder group,<b> but it would be ideal if NCUC/NCSG could identify at least two people who are qualified and prepared to take on these important roles. </b> The Brazilians plan to hold a first meeting in three days, on the 10th, with remote participation available. Hopefully CS will have nominated people by then, otherwise another solution will have to be found. Either way, please consider whether you could be right for one of these positions.</div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Moreover, the Brazilian LOG is asking that stakeholders submit written proposals for the work of the SP conference by March 1.</b> <b>It would be great if NCUC were able to get its act together to say something useful </b>about matters that have been of keen concern to us for a decade plus, such as globalization of the USG roles, a MS framework agreement on IG principles, possible institutional enhancements to address “orphan” IG issues not being addressed through other global mechanisms, and so on. If we can’t manage to pull this off as a group, I suspect some of us will file independent comments in our own capacities, but it would be much nicer in terms of building local social capital and external visibility if we were able to do something jointly.</div><div><br></div><div>Any and all suggestions on how NCUC can interface with this process would be very welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</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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