Thank you very much Carlos

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> El feb 21, 2015, a las 9:28, Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]> escribió:
> 
> 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