[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC involvement ICANN /Internet Governance Initiatives (3): The High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms

[Joana Varon]

Dear Bill and all,
First of all, happy new year! :)
Thanks for the info, Bill. Just some quick doubts:
When is the Feb meeting? What is the deadline for inputs?
best
joana



On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:36 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> A third current initiative worth having on our radars is *The High-Level
> Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms*.  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 *Anriette Esterhuysen,* 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,
> http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-13dec13-en.htm.
>  3 of said experts are *NCUCers—Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Jovan Kuberlaja *of
> Diplo Foundation,* and myself. * Also included are Sally Wentworth of
> ISOC, David Gross, and Bertrand de la Chappelle.
>
> 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.
>
> 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, *it would be really good if NCUC were to engage and
> provide some written inputs etc. *
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
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