[NCSG-Discuss] Fwd: WEF Background Paper

[Alain Berranger]

Dear Wolfgang,

Your proposal makes a lot of sense. I share it with Marie-Laure, Cintra and
Klaus FI. Marie-laure as NPOC's Programs Committee Chair will surely have
suggestions on how to proceed.

Cheers, Alain

On Sunday, February 3, 2013, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" wrote:

> Hi Alain,
>
> I want to join Avri in her positive comment on the outcome of the LA
> meeting. On the one hand it was crazy to sit 30 hours in planes for 20
> hours of meetings & briefings. However it was worth and has helped to
> create a much more constructive collaborative climate between the two SGs,
> within our own SG community and with ICANN Staff.
>
> I want to congratulate you also for your outreach plan. As already
> discussed with Klaus, I see here a lot of potential to bring expertise both
> from NPOC and NCUC together to strengthen our SG as a whole, in particular
> with the practical projects as papers, webinars and workshops/conferences.
>
> My concrete proposal is - and I made this already before I saw your paper
> in our NCUC meeting  - to organize a monthly NCSG webinar (in cooperation
> with ICANN Staff to use their facilities) on ICANN related policy issues
> which would be open for the whole ICANN community (and beyond). We could
> agree until Beijng on a list of ten themes (and lecturers) for 2013/2014
> and announce this with concrete dates during the Public Forum. I would
> volunteer to give a webinar in fall 2013 on "WCIT, WTPF, WTDC: Can ICANN
> and ITU develop a constructive collaboration in the Internet Governance
> Eco-System?"
>
> We could agree also on a joint paper series as a follow up to your project
> with UNCTAD.
>
> We should also start to think about joint workshop proposals for IGF in
> Bali (and probably for regional IGFs as EURODIG in Lisbon in June) to bring
> issues of special interests for non-commercial users to the agenda and to
> link more NGOs to the process. I hope also that Klaus engagement in the
> German IGF (June 3) will be useful at the national level.
>
> Best wishes
>
> wolfgang
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> Von: NCSG-Discuss im Auftrag von Avri Doria
> Gesendet: Sa 02.02.2013 20:52
> An: NCSG-DISCUSS at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Betreff: Re: [NCSG-Discuss] WEF Background Paper
>
>
>
> Hi Alain.
>
> I agree, the meeting was quite good for both the NCSG and bring all of the
> all of its NCU/NGO/NFP/academic&activist  participants together.
>
> I also like the view we were able to get of how ICANN is changing and of
> the direction in which Fadi seems to be facing.
>
> I also appreciated some of bits of agreement that we were able to reach
> with the other Non Contract Party SG.  I even appreciated the clarity with
> which some areas of agreement and  disagreement we have with some of the
> constituencies in the CSG were able to be discussed.
>
> It was a good trip.
>
> Of course we probably also owe this list a more comprehensive report.
>  Maybe our leaders can work together to produce one.
>
> avri
>
> On 2 Feb 2013, at 08:48, Alain Berranger wrote:
>
> > Thanks Kathy,
> >
> > It was a good meeting. For me it was about an opportunity to start some
> NPOC team building. Secondly, it was the very first time in my opininon
> that NCSG leadership came together and a climate of trust clearly set in so
> that from here on we will together move the non-commercial issues forward.
> We have a lot of work to do together, for  instance getting NGO/NFP
> Engagement on the same level at ICANN as Government Engagement and Business
> Engagement. With the NCSG getting its act together, we have removed a
> barrier to ICANN creating a dedicated senior post for NGO/NPF Engagement.
> > Also, the LA meeting was an opportunity to reach to CSG and its
> Constituencies leadership and to establish perhaps that a win for one side
> is not always a loss for the other and that NCHP has a role to play in
> advancing a number of higher level debates to make ICANN stronger in the
> end.
> >
> > Alain
> >
> > On Friday, February 1, 2013, Kathy Kleiman wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have not yet read the attached paper, but it is a background paper
> that Fadi received at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  Fadi was in a
> meeting on user data and privacy, and found himself speaking for users
> (those whose data is captured). Hooray!
> >
> > A good intersessional meeting in LA.  A new experiment on having the
> Noncommercial and Commercial meet together for meetings on both policy
> issues, and administrative issues (for growth and operation of our
> Stakeholder and constituency groups). I hope others will comment. I found
> it very valuable -- and think we have a great NCSG team!
> >
> > Best,
> > Kathy
> >
>


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