[NCUC-DISCUSS] 21 March 2014 Policy Conference in Singapore as Feeder to ICANN/Brazil-initiated IG meeting?

[Desiree Miloshevic]

+1 seems like a good opportunity.
On 28 Oct 2013 10:12, "William Drake" <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Further to my message on NCSG-discuss yesterday, why not focus our
> Singapore policy conference on the Brazil meeting & related issues, e.g.
> something like ICANN in a Reformed Global Internet Governance Architecture?
>  It would be a great opportunity to explore what has and hasn't come
> together in the preparatory process, what's on the agenda and what's not
> but should have been, how ICANN and CS @ ICANN can best position in
> relation to the ways its shaping up, etc.  Focusing our discussions around
> a potentially watershed meeting to be held a month later would, I'd think,
> raise awareness of the issues and stakes, play to our strong hand as a
> convener of intensive substantive discussions, help to center NCUC &
> partners in the debate both locally and more broadly, etc. I can't see
> anything but upsides, personally….
>
> Bill
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> On Oct 27, 2013, at 3:46 PM, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
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>
> Hi
>
> Further to the message I just sent about NCSG @ Bali….There was a
> significant flurry of activity at the IGF around the 2014 IG reform meeting
> in Brazil that Fadi and Dilma Rousseff announced.  This included several
> meetings of the emergent multistakeholder coalition/platform/whatever
> intended to work with Brazil and other governments and feed into an
> organizing committee; meetings within civil society and other SGs, as well
> as between them and Fadi; extensive debate about what the agenda could
> entail, and on and on.  Lot of buzz, speculation, prognosticating and all
> the rest.  All the possibilities on the table—e.g. some sort of agreement
> on overarching principles of IG, proposals regarding the globalization of
> the US government roles and of ICANN, establishment of new mechanisms to
> deal with "orphaned" issues that don't have fixed
> multilateral/multistakeholder institutional homes, something about
> surveillance, etc.—are of very direct relevance to us.
>
> It'd make sense for civil society @ ICANN to be directly involved in this
> at every step along the way.  We laid the foundations for that through a
> lot of networking in Bali, but will now need to get organized on a wider
> and more inclusive scale, and to build on it both independently and within
> the more IGF-oriented CS coalitions (e.g. Internet Governance Caucus, Best
> Bits) that include many people not involved in (and/or necessarily well
> disposed to) ICANN.  For a meeting with governments somewhere in the last
> week of April/first week of May, inputs will be needed by March and
> earlier, at the same time we all have a lot else going on—the BA meeting,
> NCSG and NCUC elections and transitions, NCUC policy conference in
> Singapore, etc. etc.
>
> I would suggest that in BA we make time to discuss this on Constituency
> Day, as well as with At Large.  In parallel, we will need some online
> conversation and consensus-building among our wider membership.
>
> So…lots to discuss and do.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
>
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>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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