Thanks a lot, Stephanie. Any clarification on HLMC roles and workflow? best joana On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Carolina Rossini < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thank you :-) > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Stephanie Perrin < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> I was not in the room, but on the phone and conference bridge, and I can >> update you from my notes. I am sure that Louis will have a better report, >> but in the meantime: >> Agenda: >> >> 1. Welcome message and Introduction of Participants (5 min) >> >> 2. Initial remarks (15 min) >> - H.E. Neelie Kroes - Vice President of European Commission for the >> Digital Agenda >> - D. Víctor Calvo-Sotelo - Secretary of State for Telecommunications >> and Information Society of Spain (Special Invitee) >> - Minister Paulo Bernardo - Minister of Communications of Brazil >> >> 3. Briefing and Introduction of the NETmundial structure and workflow >> (Secretary Virgílio Almeida) (10 min) >> a. Background >> b. Objectives and expected outcomes >> c. Committees and interactions among them >> d. Content contribution process >> e. Synthesis paper and document drafting >> f. Important dates >> g. HLMC roles and Agenda >> >> 4. Open Floor & Discussion (40 min) >> >> 5. Summary and Closing Remarks (20 min) >> >> 1. There was a slight delay in the start of the meeting. The Minister >> outlined his brief from the President of Brazil, to do the conference in a >> multistakeholder way. He stressed that they needed to come up with >> principles accepted by the stakeholders, and a roadmap for how to get >> there. Our role, as the high-level multi-stakeholder committee, would be >> to set the political tone and foster the involvement of international >> parties. He went over the structure and representatives for each >> committee (slides were promised and I will forward once I receive them). >> The goal is to have a reference document by mid-march >> There will be seven languages, the UN languages plus Portugese. During >> the actual meeting in April, the HLMC and the Chairs of Netmundial will >> seek approval for meeting outputs. >> There was further encouragement to all groups to submit both expressions >> of interest, to attend, and content submissions. Submissions will be >> accepted until March 8, expression of interest only until February 28 (I >> think this is accurate). >> Fifteen cities around the world will be connected to the conference [I >> guess through live streaming] [my apologies if I have mis-named the persons >> speaking, the audio was not always clear and some were speaking through an >> interpreter, I focused on the speech and not the speaker] >> 2. Neelie Kroes spoke next, she said she did not want another talk show, >> she expected Sao Paulo to deliver an agreement and a clear roadmap, with >> concrete actionable milestones. She mentioned the recently released EU >> statement on Internet policy and governance, saying she knew it would be >> hard, but we have to deliver a very clear political statement. She tressed >> the need to globalize the IANA function, and ensure full respect for human >> rights. >> The next speaker was Dirk Brengelmann, who stressed not trying to be too >> political, focus on laying out the markers for the way forward. (had to >> leave for another meeting) >> Representative of the government of South Africa spoke, stressing that >> they had not heard as a government what was going on yet. The business >> person named from South Africa could not speak for the government. >> Tawfik Jelassi from the Tunisian Ministry agreed we did not need another >> talk show, need concrete actions and true multi-stakeholder >> approach.[various others made short statements, but had to rush for their >> planes.] >> Louis Pouzin made an intervention but the audio was not clear so I did >> not catch it, I will let him speak for himself. >> The meeting ended rather abruptly, I did not hear an announcement of when >> the next meeting would be, and have not heard yet from the secretariat. I >> will seek that information now, but as you can see, there are many blanks >> in this report, my apologies for not being there in person but it was short >> notice and far away from Canada. >> >> Stephanie Perrin >> On 2014-02-26, at 11:07 AM, Carolina Rossini wrote: >> >> Dear Louis, could you give us any report back from the meeting? >> Thank you, >> Carol >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Deirdre Williams < >> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Louis, >>> I hope that the meeting went well. >>> Glad you were there >>> Best wishes >>> Deirdre >>> >>> >>> On 22 February 2014 13:45, Louis Pouzin (well) <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I received an invitation to the 1st HLC meeting in Barcelona on 24th >>>> Feb. 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