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

[Joana Varon]

Thanks, Bill.

This and the other dates/meetings you made reference to are on my agenda
and I will be brainstorming on how to contribute.

best

joana


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:30 PM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Joana
>
> On Jan 7, 2014, at 7:00 PM, Joana Varon <joana at varonferraz.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Bill and all,
> First of all, happy new year! :)
>
>
> You too
>
> Thanks for the info, Bill. Just some quick doubts:
> When is the Feb meeting? What is the deadline for inputs?
>
>
> Feb. 27-28 at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage.  The conference center, I kid
> you not, is on Bob Hope Drive, in between Frank Sinatra Drive and Gerald
> Ford Drive.  And if that’s not Republican enough for you, the airport in
> Orange County is John Wayne International!
>
> There’s no fixed agreement on inputs yet, it’s just something I suggested
> to staff, who were receptive.  It’ll have to be agreed to by Fadi,
> President Ilves, and the panelists.  I may know more in two weeks after a
> prep meeting in Brussels. Whatever happens, NCUC can have its say via one
> means or another, if that is we get it together to say something.
>
> If we had an IG interest group or some similar vehicle with some folks who
> are dedicated to tracking the issues and providing written views, there’ll
> be many avenues for their distribution, and many occasions to do
> it—Singapore, SP, and beyond.
>
> Best
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> 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
>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org
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>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
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