[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC @ NETmundial?

[Robin Gross]

> For the NM, the organizers are really desperate to have inputs from the community on the draft document.  Stakeholders from around the world are inputting comments at http://document.netmundial.br and I would heartily encourage any NCUCers with the bandwidth and interest to join the fray.


Yes, please, NCUC members!  We need your comments on this draft outcome document and its only open for comment for a couple more days.  If our views are not put into this document now, our values won't be represented in the outcome document.  We need comments that support and strengthen human rights, especially free expression and privacy.  (France has proposed that intellectual property rights should be listed among the "human rights" to be centralized in Internet governance principles).  And we need comments supporting more specifics on bottom-up decision making and accountability mechanisms for internet governance institutions (like ICANN) such as external accountability mechanisms and checks and balances of power.  Among other issues.  Please look for yourself!

It only takes a few minutes to submit a comment and your participation would make a big difference in the text of this NETmundial outcome document, so please submit a comment  Thank you!!

Best,
Robin

On Apr 18, 2014, at 2:02 AM, William Drake wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I asked last week who's coming to NM because ICANN staff wanted to set up comm channels for ICANNauts in attendance who might like to chat and coordinate etc., and there will probably be varying side meetings etc.  It appears there will be at least 40 NCUC members in Brazil, maybe more….we’ll probably be the single largest ICANN contingency there, although staff may come close.
> 
> Anyway, they have now set up a Skype channel and will do an email list as well.  They were going to just add peoples’ addresses but I suggested making this opt in, as maybe some folks won’t want to be bothered.  So if anyone wants to add multistakeholder comm lines in parallel with all their civil society channels etc, just let us know and I or someone else will add you to the Skype, and when the mail list is up I’ll send the subscription URL.
> 
> It will be a very hectic week starting Tuesday with the Civil Society Coordination meeting, of which NCUC is a co-sponsor http://bestbits.net/events/netmundial-coordination, and which many of us will attend.  Also there are invite-based academic pre- and post-meetings organized by Brazilian NCUC members, and the NM itself on Wednesday-Thursday.
> 
> For the NM, the organizers are really desperate to have inputs from the community on the draft document.  Stakeholders from around the world are inputting comments at http://document.netmundial.br and I would heartily encourage any NCUCers with the bandwidth and interest to join the fray.
> 
> NM will of course provide remote participation for folks who can’t come to SP.  There’s a series of hubs http://netmundial.br/remote-participation.   I’m not sure how exactly this all works but Adam Peake, who’s a CS on the Exec. MS Committee can probably answer any questions in his abundant spare time.
> 
> Hope to see you F2F or virtually.
> 
> Best
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Apr 12, 2014, at 11:35 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> So far 17 NCUC members have indicated that they will be at the NETmundial.  But looking at list of folks who responded to the Doodle, I can’t help noting that a number of members I believe will be attending (and are e.g. listed as being at the Best Bits civil society coordination meeting or the academic meeting before and after) have not done the Doodle.  May I therefore ask again that anyone who will be in SP fill out http://doodle.com/3axp7s5vrgkq9x8r.  I’d like to wrap this up, get it off my desk and send it to ICANN.
>> 
>> There’s reason to believe we will be the most well represented part of the ICANNsphere.  It’d be useful for us to drive that home with ICANN’s leadership.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> On Apr 9, 2014, at 10:15 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> ICANN staff are asking who from NCUC (& other groupings) will be at http://netmundial.br in Sao Paulo 23-24 April, in the event there’s critical mass to organize any sort of pre- or post-meeting events.  
>>> 
>>> At the same time, we might want to connect ourselves—while the weeks’s schedule is packed with civil society and academic meetings on the days before and after NM, who knows, maybe we could at least organize a caipirinha together.  At a minimum we could establish a chat space for electronic blabbing.
>>> 
>>> I know of a number of people who are going and others who've said they wanted to if travel support materialized, but I don’t know the final tally.  I’d put up a page on the Confluence wiki (as At Large and probably some other groups have done), but people might not all have accounts.  So instead, here’s a simple Doodle
>>> 
>>> http://doodle.com/3axp7s5vrgkq9x8r
>>> 
>>> Please fill in if you’re coming to Sao Paulo and want to connect.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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