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CGI.br's position on NMI is strongly in line with Bill's view and
with the ToR draft.<br>
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Best<br>
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Flavio<br>
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<div class="">So the NMI will largely be another talk
shop without teeth that allows people who care about
this stuff to, well, talk and network and talk? </div>
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<div>No it’s not for talking, that’s the IGF</div>
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network in the Internet governance world? </div>
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Not to my knowledge, although whether they yield desirable
dynamics and results is another matter.</div>
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<div class="">I don't mean to denigrate the hard work of
those involved in this effort, I'm just trying to
understand why we need the NMI, what niche it fills.</div>
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<div>The proposed functions are as described below. Again, a
platform to share info and coordinate projects consistent with
the NM statement. And a resource and connector so that when,
e.g., a government says we’d like to think about establishing
national/regional MS mechanisms, how do we do it, what have
been the experiences, their only option isn’t to get on a
plane and go as <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://CGI.br" class="">CGI.br</a> or New Zealand and
ask because there’s info available, model laws, best
practices, etc. to refer to. Or when a developing country
government says we have a problem with spam or security or
whatever and don’t know how best to approach, there’s another
answer besides ‘ask the ITU,’ they can connect with actors via
the platform that will help steer them to relevant people orgs
and resources and construct a distributed network they can
draw on in working toward solutions. Or when someone wants to
do a thing like the Friends of IGF project or Bertrand’s or
the Stanford IGF polling thing they can come there and find
potential partners and funders. Or when we want to take stock
of progress or the lack thereof in implementing the NM
principles, someone can propose a report and find partners for
finance organization etc. and the platform helps to
disseminate. If you know of another space where these and
related functions mentioned below are all being done now, you
are well ahead of the rest of us. Please provide pointers.</div>
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Yes, and the joke’s on you, Kieren and others
who’ve been endlessly fulminating that NMI is
somehow a dastardly plot to take over the
universe, even though your colleagues who are
involved have been saying forever that no it’s not
(why would we be involved in it if it were?).
What we propose to actually do, if facts matter,
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<div class=""><i class="">The Initiative will seek
to <b class="">complement and support the work
of existing Internet governance dialogue </b>and
normative processes and institutions,
including particularly the Internet Governance
Forum (IGF), as well as the technical Internet
community. In addition, the <b class="">Initiative
will not be a policy-setting body.</b><br
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The NETmundial Initiative will:<br class="">
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Serve as a<b class=""> neutral clearinghouse</b>
for issues, solutions, expertise and resources
in Internet governance, and <b class="">provide
a platform on which diverse actors can
solicit project partners and establish
collaborative relationships</b>.<br class="">
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<b class="">Enable open, inclusive, balanced and
collaborative communities to share knowledge
and expertise,</b> leading to best practices,
suggestions, innovation and solutions to address
challenges identified by the community.<br
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<b class="">Facilitate participation</b> in the
Internet governance ecosystem, particularly in
the developing world, and <b class="">advance
multistakeholder processes at the national
and regional levels.</b><br class="">
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Promote the application, evaluation, and
implementation of the Principles and <b
class="">encourage community reporting</b>
efforts.<br class="">
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<b class="">Assist developing-country
communities, governments and underserved
stakeholders by enabling capacity development
efforts and in networking</b> with
relevant organizations and processes in order to
address gaps in policy development.</i><br
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These elements distill both public feedback
received on a questionnaire and discussions that
have taken place in various spaces, e.g. at the
Istanbul IGF, in the Ilves commission process, at
ICANN Singapore, and within NMI (reports of the
ToR drafting group meetings are at <a
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href="https://www.netmundial.org/2015-meetings"
class="">https://www.netmundial.org/2015-meetings</a>).
I would very much encourage people to comment on
each of these elements on the website. If you
think they can be useful or that there is no need
for them, say why.<br class="">
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<div class="">Either way, there's no dastardly plot
here to take over the world. No centralizing
decision making about anything behind closed doors
in smoke filled rooms filled by the cigars of WEF
fat cats (they are barely involved). No taking away
anything from the IGF, but rather complementary work
(we’ll probably hold an Open Forum in Brazil). No
big new organization, it’s three ICANN and <a
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class="">CGI.br</a> staffers who have multiple
other responsibilities working very part time
alongside a multistakeholder Coordination Council
that has five NCUC members and works by consensus.
Fadi is one member and has been not so involved
either, so Fadi Fever explanations of how things
must really work don’t cut it.</div>
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<div class="">NMI is a space for people to say what
projects they’re working on (e.g. <a
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class="">https://www.netmundial.org/contributions-list</a>)
and seek partners, make connections, share
information, etc. A core concern is and always was
contributing to capacity building for developing
country governments and stakeholders trying to deal
with non-ICANN issues. Either people will decide
this can be useful and it will sustain a place as a
small facilitating connector in complex
institutional ecosystem, or they won’t, and we’ll
say ok we tried and it’ll drift off, not the end of
the world. Either can happen, especially given all
the willful misrepresentations of this that have
become part of the zeitgeist. But it’s worth
remembering that when some of us started talking in
2004 about the need for a new multistakeholder
process for open dialogue and analysis on the broad
range of IG issues and institutions, the push back
was immediate from the some of same folks that have
criticized this—e.g. ISOC and the ICC—and yet
eventually they came to see that the IGF was a
useful addition to the mix. That could happen here
too if people get beyond the original sins of a key
protagonist in the initial roll out of the idea.
TBD.</div>
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