Dear c.a,
It is great to hear your thoughts on the NMI. I am always learning about it and i take advantage of any comment or views of anyone to better understand what the NMI brings into the Internet ecosystem.
And as Carlos Raul said, let's keep an eye to the developments happening this year. As i am writing this, in my country we are still facing Internet problems, not accessing to every website especially when on 3G.
Best regards,
A
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Arsene Tungali,
Executive Director, Rudi International
www.rudiinternational.org
Founder & Director, Mabingwa Forum
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ICANN Fellow | ISOC Member | Child Online Protection | Activist & Youth Leader | Internet Governance.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
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> On 21 févr. 2015, at 18:40, Carlos Raul Gutierrez <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear Carlos Afonso,
>
> Thank you very much for your note.
>
> I had a concurrent meeting I had to co chair in SIngapore and only noticed that the room con Internet Governance was fully packed. It would be good to add to your comments the official results of the meeting just before Christmas 2014 between ISCO and ICAN Board members, where all this should have been settled after a generous Christmas additional donation for the 2015 IGF. Do you have a copy of th statement out of that meeting? It may refresh some minds. and help everybody concentrate on more useful activities for this year: some volunteers are working hard for the IANA transition, others in the US will face an uphill battle for net neutrality, other still have no internet access and/or freedom of expression in their countries. Lets join efforts!
>
> And as I learned from you, un abrazo fraternal!
>
> Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez
> ISOC Costa Rica Chapter
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> +506 8837 7176 (New Phone number!!!!)
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> 2015-02-21 9:28 GMT-06:00 Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Dear people, below is a text based on my statement on the NETmundial
>> Initiative (NMI), in the Internet Governance session at ICANN 52.
>>
>> Your comments would be appreciated.
>>
>> frt rgds
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>> My view on the NETmundial Initiative (NMI)
>>
>> Carlos A. Afonso
>>
>> [Derived from my statement in the workshop on Internet governance, on
>> Feb.12, 2015, at ICANN 52, Singapore]
>>
>> As explained in its portal, The NETmundial Initiative is a "bottom-up,
>> action-focused movement for the global community to organically
>> operationalize distributed Internet governance, based on the Principles
>> developed at the NETmundial meeting held in São Paulo, and the
>> polycentric ecosystem described in President Toomas Ilves’ panel report."
>>
>> It is a platform (in construction) to provide mechanisms of support to
>> concrete initiatives, projects, and research, which will advance the
>> NETmundial principles and roadmap. It is currently facilitated by ICANN
>> and CGI.br, which provide infrastructural and secretarial support to the
>> initiative. In the words of the portal's FAQ: "The NETmundial Initiative
>> provides an online platform to (i) facilitate ‘crowd-sourcing’ of
>> enablers and solutions from the global community; and (ii) energize
>> ‘crowd-funding’ and multistakeholder partnership to support the further
>> development and wider application of such enablers and solutions."
>>
>> In summary, its motivation is to provide an environment for building
>> upon the principles and roadmap established by NETmundial. ICANN and
>> CGI.br are its natural initial enablers, as they were among the crucial
>> instances that enabled NETmundial itself.
>>
>> The Initiative is not controlled, managed or overseen by the WEF. The
>> Forum helps in facilitating the project with CGI.br and ICANN, but has
>> its own Internet initiative, which has recently been announced. [1]
>>
>> Several organizations of stakeholders are involved in collective
>> initiatives related in one way or another to Internet governance.
>> Besides the example of the WEF proposal (mentioned above), there is a
>> call by a group of some civil society organizations called the Just Net
>> Coalition (JNC) to implement an Internet Social Forum (ISF). The ISF
>> promises to follow the principles set by the World Social Forum (WSF)
>> and is restricted to organizations and individuals that adhere to the
>> JNC and the WSF principles.
>>
>> According to JNC, "the ISF will inter alia offer an alternative to the
>> recently-launched World Economic Forum's 'Net Mundial Initiative' on
>> global Internet governance. While the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the
>> 'Net Mundial Initiative' convene global elites, the Internet Social
>> Forum will be a participatory and bottom-up space for all those who
>> believe that the global Internet must evolve in the public interest; a
>> direct parallel to the launch of the WSF in 2001 as a counter initiative
>> to the WEF." [2]
>>
>> Contrary to the view of the JNC, NMI is not "run by the WEF" and is not
>> a convener of "global elites". None of the above undertakings
>> invalidates the NETmundial Initiative. It will not replace or compete
>> with them. NMI is not a forum -- it was never intended to replace or
>> compete with the UN's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) or any other forum.
>>
>> Since January 2015 NMI is run by its inaugural Coordination Council
>> (CC), constituted after careful consultation with all stakeholders. The
>> CC is composed of 20 members of civil society, academic/technical
>> community, business and government, and includes representatives from
>> ICANN, CGI.br and WEF (as facilitators). As Wolfgang Kleinwächter
>> explains: "[the Council] started a process to outreach as much as
>> possible to the broader Internet governance community to stimulate an
>> open, transparent, inclusive and bottom up discussion process," the
>> first step of which is to produce the Terms of Reference (ToR) of the
>> Initiative through a consultative process much similar to the one
>> carried out by NETmundial to build is final document.[3]
>>
>> The result of this consultation will be a draft ToR to be submitted to
>> the community during March. On the basis of this feedback a final
>> version of the ToR will be discussed in the first face-to-face meeting
>> of the CC in Costa Rica at the end of March. The adopted ToR will be
>> essential to define the procedures and criteria for the platform to
>> gather relevant proposals.
>>
>> Further, the CC is in charge of negotiating sponsorships and funding
>> sources to support the relevant proposals gathered by the platform. The
>> only limitations are that the mission of NMI and the mandate and goals
>> of the CC are not changed in a way to distort the original idea. This is
>> certainly relevant for ICANN and CGI.br to continue to provide support
>> for it.
>>
>> The NMI, as a supporting platform of projects crafted to advance the
>> NETmundial principles and roadmap, can be seen as an accelerator, in
>> which the "start-ups" are initiatives to enhance, better understand
>> and/or improve on aspects of the Internet governance ecosystem.
>>
>> In this spirit, a good idea to spark the process of finding those
>> potential "start-ups" would be to comb through the many workshops of the
>> 9th IGF in Istanbul to catch possible ideas for proposals, which could
>> perhaps be a clear demonstration of projects in this nascent phase.
>> Certainly the João Pessoa IGF will be a good source of ideas as well,
>> and this could be thought as a permanent interactive mechanism between
>> the platform and the IGF.
>>
>> This is of course an idea to be submitted to the CC members, who are in
>> charge of in coordinating this process based on the input provided by
>> the Internet governance community.
>>
>> A last note, after the Singapore meeting, upon reading the recent public
>> consultation carried out by the Internet Society. Question 10 of the
>> questionnaire states:
>>
>> "10. Do you think the new “NETmundial Initiative” (NMI) that was
>> launched by the WEF, Brazil and ICANN is needed for effective Internet
>> governance?"
>>
>> This biased question induces the respondent to think that the initiative
>> is controlled by wEF and the Brazilian government in cahoots with ICANN.
>> Wrong. NMI has been proposed in a WEF meeting with the initial
>> participation of ICANN, WEF and CGI.br. As most of you know (but ISOC
>> seems not to), CGI.br is a multistakeholder commission, the majority of
>> board members being non-government.
>>
>> After an intense public scrutiny, the original proposal was
>> significantly modified, as I hope to have explained above. NMI in
>> summary is today a multistakeholder process.
>>
>> I encourage NCSGers to contribute to the CC's public consultation here:
>>
>> https://www.netmundial.org/community-consultation-terms-reference
>>
>> Deadline has been extended to Feb.23 and might be further extended to
>> Feb.27.
>>
>> I can't help but notice another tricky notion in ISOC's question 10:
>> what does ISOC consider to be "effective" Internet governance? I have no
>> idea of what they have in mind, but certainly an international
>> multistakeholder initiative which seeks to support the advancement of
>> the principles and roadmap of NETmundial cannot be discarded in the name
>> of a certain "effective" Internet governance.
>>
>> Notes:
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.weforum.org/news/world-economic-forum-launches-future-internet-initiative
>>
>> [2]
>> https://fsm2015.org/en/article/2015/01/25/global-civil-society-launches-internet-social-forum-call-occupy-internet
>>
>> [3]
>> https://www.netmundial.org/blog/secretariat/netmundial-initiative-taking-positive-steps-forward
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