[discuss] [IRPCoalition] [governance] Meeting in São Paulo on Friday, January 10th, is between the LOG and 1Net

Thu Jan 9 16:17:52 UTC 2014

Colleagues:

Since the who and what of Friday's meeting remain a bit confused, I thought it might be useful to set out some concepts which I feel should be addressed.  While these are my comments and not consensus comments of business stakeholders these are issues which have been discussed in various business groups so I think they are broadly representative.

1.	 There is no way that any stakeholder group can be sufficiently represented by the handful of persons that are allowed to serve as representatives.  As such, I believe that these representatives should only act as liaisons. In light of this liaison status, the main function of these representatives in my view is to be present in meetings and take back issues to the broader stakeholder group for consensus decisions on response and parameters for action.

2.	In light of the liaison nature of the representatives, I would suggest that somewhat detailed  agendas are formed and published in advance of meetings to allow consultation with the broader group before the meeting and that detailed reports of the meetings are issued to assure a common understanding of discussions, outcomes, and action items.  Finally time needs to be provided between meetings to allow for consultation and development of consensus.

3.	All stakeholders from Bali onwards have indicated a substantial interest in not just mutlistakeholder consultation, but multistakeholder participation.  While working groups may need to have numerical limits for efficiency, the decision-making process and the actual meeting in Brazil need to have broad multistakeholder participation.  This includes appropriate consideration of how to assure participation for stakeholder representatives from less and least developed economies in the Brazil meeting.

4.	We should use our collective experience in the IGF and other international meetings on how to best assure interactive participation to the Brazil meeting for remote participants.

5.	Greater clarity and transparency needs to be provided related to chairing roles of the Brazil meeting and how they factor multistakeholder input and assure mutlistakeholder participation/representation.

While these are not logistics coordination issues per se, they are needed process assurances and clarifications which need to be put in place in the very near term.  

Best-

Joe
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Subject: Re: [discuss] [IRPCoalition] [governance] Meeting in São Paulo on Friday, January 10th, is between the LOG and 1Net

I won't be in Brazil. I have already asked if the /1net steercom reps can attend the meeting at least as observer, awaiting for answer from the LOC.

- a.
On 2014-01-07, at 20:35 PM, Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com> wrote:

> + 1 on Joana's email. And since Joana and Laura were part of the temporary CS liaison appointees for the 1Net back in the IGF, and since they are in Brazil, it is crucial to have them in the meeting. I expect that Adiel, who will be in this meeting, agree and support that. 
> 
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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Joana Varon <joana at varonferraz.com> wrote:
> Dear Glaser,
> 
> Is it possible that at least those who were elected in the steering/coordination committee of 1net could also attend the next planning meetings?
> 
> At least from CS, it has been a demand from some representatives in the various lists where Adiel's report was shared that at least representatives from international civil society should attend such meetings to report back to it's constituencies. 
> 
> As 1net has been pointed as a conduit by the LOG, and we are now trying to create some legitimacy for this network by electing it's representatives for the steering/coordination committee, I think that at least enabling elected representatives for 1net to attend and report back should be a way forward to start opening up the planing process while the Br committees are not formed yet. IMHO I think that would even help CGI to speed up this process. 
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> all the best
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> joana
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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Hartmut Richard Glaser <glaser at cgi.br> wrote:
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> URGENT INFORMATION/CLARIFICATION
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> There will be a face-to-face meeting in Brazil on Friday, January 
> 10th, between the local organizing group (LOG) and representatives of 
> 1Net to sort out relevant details related to the Brazil Meeting 
> process, in particular the organization of the meeting's committees.
> 
> 
> This is not a meeting of any of the committees planned for the event's 
> process,  since they are not yet constituted. We hope that by January 
> 15th the nominations from all stakeholders will be in place for all 
> committees to start their work.
> 
> Thanks for your support.
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