Thx Milton. These quite relevant questions and comments, as others I am 
receiving, will be very helpful for our local group to refine and 
improve on process and structure. I am compiling all of them for our 
online meeting on Dec.27.

frt rgds

--c.a.

On 12/23/2013 04:06 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> Thanks Carlos for this great service of keeping us informed.
>
> I have a few questions.
>
> First, the description of the EMC does not specify the total size of the committee, although it does say that 8 of them will be Brazilian, and only 2 from transnational civil society. Do you have any additional information about this?
>
> The EMC seems to be very powerful, setting the agenda and approving participants.  Can you tell me more about what it means to have the EMC in charge of selecting "the various stakeholders' proposals?" We are vaguely under the impression that proposals or statements need to be submitted by March 1. I imagine that some kind of agenda-setting will be required to consider the various proposals. Of course I do not expect you Carlos Sr. to know exactly how this will be done - probably no one does at this point - but perhaps you can tell us more about how people in LOG are thinking about how substantive proposals will be handled.
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> I was surprised - pleasantly - by the large size of the meeting. Does this mean that every one of the 550 civil society attendees will be individually approved by the EMC. Will there by a first come, first-served dynamic to one's applications as the date approaches?
>
> Can you say any more about what "political articulation" means? You described that as one of the tasks of the HLMC.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NCSG-Discuss [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carlos A. Afonso
> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 11:37 AM
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> Subject: [NCSG-Discuss] Report from the BR meeting local organizing group - Dec 2013
>
> Hi people,
>
> This is my quick summary of yesterday's meeting of the local organizing group (LOG) for the BR meeting. This summary is basically oriented to civil society but may be useful to all stakeholders. Covers basically the structure of the committees and includes some other useful info.
>
> I do hope it answers several of the many questions we are receiving.
>
> fraternal regards
>
> --c.a.
>
> ================================
>
> 1. Co-chairs of the BR Meeting
>
> This is a no-brainer: the BR Meeting will be chaired by Virgilio Almeida (current chair of CGI.br, and member of Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation), and Fadi Chehadé.
>
> 2. High Level Multistakeholder Committee
>
> The HLMC will be responsible for overseeing the political articulations and for encouraging the participation of the international community.
>
> It will be composed of government representatives of 12 countries (precise list still being established by the BR government) plus 12 non-govs, and two representatives of UN agencies to be chosen by the UNSG. The 12 non-govs include four of each non-gov stakeholder (civil society, academia/techies, private sector). All of the non-gov, non-UN stakeholders' names will be brought to the LOG by 1Net. So the HLC will be composed of 26 people.
>
> The HLMC will have four co-chairs, keeping the multistakeholder balance.
> One of the co-chairs will be Brazil's Minister of Communications Paulo Bernardo.
>
> So civil society needs to indicate to 1Net Steering Committee four high-level reps as soon as possible.
>
> 3. Executive Multistakeholder Committee
>
> The EMC will be responsible for organizing the event, including the discussion and implementation of the agenda, and the selection of the participants and the various stakeholders' proposals. The crucial part of the preparation process resides here, in close coordination with the Logistics Committee, so people selected for the EMC ought to make themselves readily available for this challenge.
>
> The LOG has already selected the eight Brazilian members of the EMC.
> There will be four co-chairs as well, and names already appointed are Demi Getschko (CEO of NIC.br) and Raúl Echeberría (to be confirmed, CEO of LACNIC). A representative of an international agency will be appointed as well (by the coordinating body of the UN agencies) to participate.
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> Like the HLMC, non-gov, non-UN members of the EMC will be brought to the LOG by 1Net.
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> For the EMC civil society needs to indicate to 1Net Steering Committee two names as soon as possible.
>
> 4. Logistics and Organizational Committee
> 		
> The LOC will be co-chaired by Hartmut Glaser, executive secretary of CGI.br with proven expertise in coordinating the organization of national and international events. Another co-chair will be indicated by 1Net.
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> 5. Government Advisory Committee
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> This is in the hands of the BR government who acts as a facilitator and coordinator. Two co-chairs will be indicated. This committee will be open to any government who wishes to act in an advisory capacity.
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> 6. Funding
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> NIC.br will cover about 50% of the meeting's overall costs. The balance will be share by international participants/sponsors. Contributions from ICANN and ISOC are expected.
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> 7. Participation
>
> The meeting is to be held at Hotel Transamérica, in São Paulo, fairly close to NIC.br headquarters (see attached map). The basic distribution of participants is envisioned approximately as:
>
> 450 from govs
> 500-550 from non-gov, non-UN stakeholders
> 100 journalists
> 50 IGOs/UN reps
>
> Inviting participants, or receiving and approving participation requests, is one of the tasks of the EMC.
>
> 8. Expected outcomes as success indicators
>
> - Official launching of a review process of the global IG frameworks/models;
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> - Development of a set of universally acceptable core of principles for global IG;
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> - Tentative draft of a global IG model.
>
> My personal comment: these ambitious outcomes of course involve a lot of preparatory process work, especially by the Executive Committee. This is why we need to conclude the nominations asap in order to start the real work towards the meeting.
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