Hello Everyone,

Few weeks ago, there was announcement about strategic panels from the ICANN
CEO Fadi Chehade. Those panels covers several themes and are supposed to
bring new perspectives
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-14oct13-en.htm . We
can cautiously state that this initiative was not warmly welcomed and we
had already some discussion within the list around question of
representation, bypassing the bottom-up model etc. One of those panel
become a High Level Panel
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-17nov13-en.htm .


Back to the 5 panels, we received this message, you found below, from the
one about "Multistakeholder innovation". This panel held a session at
Buones Aires meeting to get community feedback and there were definitely
several critics. They are asking for our comments, inputs and ideas. While
we may disagree about the process, we should participate and provide our
feedback.
Our members can participate and comment there following the process
described below. I do think that can be beneficial that those who will send
comments to share them here too. We can compile the comments and populate a
wiki page , in confluence , that we would create.

Any comments or proposal?

Best Regards,

Rafik


*Reply-To: *The ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation & The
GovLab <[log in to unmask]>

     Designing a 21st Century ICANN Hello, SO/AC/SG Leaders!

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 (The GovLab) recently launched an online engagement effort aimed at
helping to design a 21st century Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN).

We are writing to request your participation in this important initiative
and to help us spread the word.

The MSI Panel has been charged with:

   - Proposing new models for international engagement, consensus-driven
   policymaking and institutional structures to support such enhanced
   functions; and
   - Designing processes, tools and platforms that enable the global ICANN
   community to engage in these new forms of participatory decision-making.

The Panel is a small group of seven with no monopoly on the best ideas for
what ICANN should or should not do to coordinate the DNS in the public
interest. All suggestions to make ICANN more effective and more democratic
– whether constitutional, structural, legal, procedural or technological –
will be welcome.

While we cannot decide for ICANN, the aim of the MSI Panel is to use its
authority to push for real change. Thus, we want ideas that are concrete
and specific for innovative*processes, structures, platforms, *and
*techniques *to design a 21st century ICANN.

To gather and organize your input – this engagement effort will involve
three stages:

*Stage 1: Idea Generation* – *LIVE NOW* and running for six weeks via an
ideation platform, *Ideascale.* You can access our MSI Panel community page
here<http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=37af3b6bd7&e=493f5950c8>.
On the page, you can submit any and all concrete ideas you have. You can
also comment on, rate and rank others’ for importance and
practicality. *November
19 - December 31*.

*Stage 2: Proposal Development* – Submissions will be grouped into general
proposals and opened to discussion using a blog with line-by-line
annotation features (e.g., . *January 14 - January 21.*

*Stage 3: Collaborative Drafting* – Using a wiki, we will invite
collaborative drafting on specific proposals that the Panel will submit to
the ICANN CEO, Board and community.*January 28 - February 11.*

To help us spread the word, we ask you to do any of the following:

   - Submit ideas and encourage members of your community to contribute to
   the Ideascale community site by providing them with the link:
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   - Broadcast our “Call To Action,” for this initiative, which is online
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   as widely as possible within your community. Feel free to link to this post
   or repost on your website edited to fit your needs.
   - Share this information within your community and network via mailing
   lists and listservs.
   - Use social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter to spread the
   word about the campaign. Don’t forget to use the hashtag* #WeCANN*.
   - To inspire participation and learn how to contribute, watch and share a
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    The GovLab has made for the launch of this distributed brainstorm.
   - Host your own brainstorming forum and share ideas generated with the
   MSI Panel on our Ideascale community page.

For more information, visit The GovLab at
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Thanks and best,

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