[menog] NETmundial Initiative Announces Formation of its Inaugural Coordination Council and a Broad Global Community Consultation Phase

[Stephen Wilcox]

Wow this seems surprising given the lack of support from the major
stakeholders, I didn't expect to see them form a council without key
players involved!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/24/internet_governance_group_pushes_forward_without_internet_organizations/

Steve

On 28 December 2014 at 23:37, Fahd Batayneh <fahd.batayneh at icann.org> wrote:

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> Submitted by Secretariat on Tue, 12/23/2014 - 16:52
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> Today the NETmundial Initiative announced the members of its Inaugural
> Coordination Council and outlined next steps in the process. The
> announcement follows a series of open dialogues and consultations across
> all sectors of the global community that have helped inform and shape the
> way forward.
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> The open call for nominations for the inaugural Coordination Council was
> answered with strong voluntary community participation. A total of 46 high
> quality nomination submissions were made for the 20 seats available,
> reflecting a broad and diverse representation of stakeholders from all
> sectors and geographies. The final selection decisions are based on the
> criteria developed in consultation with respective stakeholder groups, in
> full transparency.
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> The responsibilities of the Inaugural Coordination Council will be limited
> to facilitating global support for the Initiative, including promoting the
> distributed Internet governance model, and attracting ideas, individuals,
> organizations, and funding in order to enable interested parties to take
> voluntary actions on the platform.  The Council will have no mandate to
> intervene on any initiatives advanced through the platform. Prior to the
> Council’s first meeting, the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the NETmundial
> Initiative will be developed through an inclusive, bottom-up, and
> consultative process, open to the global community.
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> The Inaugural Coordinating Council members listed below are distributed
> across four sectors and five geographies:
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> *Sector: Academia, Technical Community and Foundations*
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>    1. *Nii Narku Quaynor*, University of Cape Coast, Ghana – Africa
>    2. *Akinori MAEMURA*, Japan Network Information Center – Asia & Oceania
>    3. *Jean-François Abramatic*, W3C – Europe
>    4. *Marília Maciel*, Center for Technology and Society - Getulio
>    Vargas Foundation School of Law – Latin America & Caribbean
>    5. *William Drake*, Media Change and Innovation Division, IPMZ,
>    University of Zurich – North America
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> *Sector: Civil Society*
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>    1. *Anriette Esterhuysen, *Association for Progressive Communications,
>    APC – Africa
>    2. *Ian Peter, *Nomination as an individual - Asia & Oceania
>    3. *Jean-Jacques Subrenat, *EURALO - Europe
>    4. *João Carlos Rebello Caribé, *Movimento Mega - Latin America &
>    Caribbean
>    5. *Eileen Donahoe, *Human Rights Watch - North America
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> *Sector: Governments and Intergovernmental Organizations*
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>    1. *Atef Helmy*, Minister of Communications & Information Technology,
>    Egypt – Africa
>    2. *Lu Wei*, Minister for Cyberspace Affairs Administration, China – -
>    Asia & Oceania
>    3. *Andrus Ansip*, European Commission, Vice-President for the Digital
>    Single Market – Europe
>    4. *Juan Cruz González Allonca*, National Director for Personal Data
>    Protection, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Argentina – Latin America
>    & Caribbean
>    5. *Penny Pritzker*, Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of
>    Commerce – North America
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> *Sector: Private Sector *
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>    1. *Andile Ngcaba*, Convergence Partners Investments – Africa
>    2. *Jack Ma, *Alibaba Group – Asia & Oceania
>    3. *Christoph Steck*, Telefonica, S.A. – Europe
>    4. *Pablo Bello Arellano*, AHCIET (Asociación Iberoamericana de
>    Centros de Investigación y empresas de Telecomunicaciones) – Latin America
>    & Caribbean
>    5. *James Poisant*, The World Information Technology & Services
>    Alliance
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> *Organizing Partners*
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>    1. *Virgilio Augusto Fernandes Almeida*, The Brazilian Internet
>    Steering Committee
>    2. *Fadi Chehadé*, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
>    3. *Richard Samans*, World Economic Forum
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> The organizing partners will leave open two additional liaison seats (one
> each) for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and the technical Internet
> community (I* group), which they are welcome to fill at any time. The
> NETmundial Initiative must and will actively work to strengthen the IGF and
> extend its valuable work at the global, regional, and national levels.
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> In addition, Professor Wolfgang Kleinwächter from the University of Aarhus
> will be appointed as Special Ambassador of the NETmundial Initiative to
> increase collaboration and dialogue with the global Internet community.
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> The NETmundial Initiative remains an iterative process that can only
> evolve through the broad-based involvement of stakeholders from across the
> world. The recent joint statement (link is external)
> <http://www.internetsociety.org/news/joint-statement-isoc-icann-meeting>
> issued by ISOC and ICANN is welcomed. The NETmundial Initiative will
> embrace the suggestions in the ISOC/ICANN statement to engage the community
> in developing the Initiative’s ToR, and to explore with the community what
> they need on the NETmundial platform to advance their Internet governance
> activities.
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> The first formal meeting of the Inaugural Coordination Council will be
> held on March 31, 2015 (location to be finalized). The first three months
> of 2015 will be a period of broad engagement across the global community.
> The Initiative’s secretariat will work closely with members of the
> Inaugural Coordination Council and/or their staff to coordinate the global
> bottom-up consultation to finalize the Initiative’s ToR and to develop a
> framework for the NETmundial solutions’ platform – prior to the Council’s
> first meeting.
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> The Inaugural Coordination Council will be in place for a period of 18
> months to ensure the development of the Initiative during its startup
> phase. The NETmundial Transitional Committee – which was formed to
> facilitate the formation of the Inaugural Coordination Council – has
> completed its task and is therefore now dissolved.
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