Dear Carlos,

Hi , many thanks for sharing these information .


Best Regards,

Shabnam

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Carlos Raul Gutierrez <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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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> 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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