[lac-discuss-en] Fwd: ICANN News Alert -- High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms Convenes in London

Tue Dec 17 14:45:24 UTC 2013

FYI, additional information on the work of the High-level Panel on Global
Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms. This topic was discussed on
the LACRALO call yesterday.

A special note to identify those who participated in briefing the panel at
their London meeting.

-Carlton

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http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-13dec13-en
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 High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms
Convenes in London

13 December 2013

*LONDON *– The Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance
Mechanisms—a diverse group of global stakeholders from government, civil
society, the private sector, the technical community and international
organizations—held their first meeting in London to discuss global Internet
cooperation and governance mechanisms. The Panel expressed strong support
for a multistakeholder approach to the future of Internet governance. The
conversations held at the London meeting were facilitated by a team of
Internet governance experts. The discussion will be taken online in the
coming days at 1Net.org.

"The world relies on the Internet for economic, social, and political
progress. It is imperative to ensure emerging issues are properly addressed
in a global context, without individual governments or intergovernmental
organizations developing their own solutions," said Estonian President
Toomas Hendrik Ilves and chair of the Panel.

"The success of the Internet is rooted in a distributed and bottom-up
model, with openness and collaboration at its core," said Vint Cerf,
vice-chair of the Panel. "The inaugural meeting of the Panel brought
together a diverse set of perspectives on the future of the Internet, and
through this diversity I'm confident we can chart a course to protect the
core of the current ecosystem, while evolving its methods, accessibility,
and universality to meet the opportunities and challenges of the future."

In keeping with its mission, the first meeting of the Panel addressed
desirable properties for global Internet cooperation, administration and
governance. The Panel will conduct two additional meetings in the coming
months. The next meeting, scheduled for late February 2014 in Rancho
Mirage, California, will be hosted by The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands.
Sunnylands is partnering with the Panel in its substantive work. Following
this meeting, a high-level draft report will then be released for open
consultation. A final meeting will be hosted by the World Economic Forum in
May 2014 in Dubai. During this meeting, the Panel will consider community
feedback and discussions at forums including the Global Multistakeholder
Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance in Brazil and the Freedom
Online Coalition's conference in Tallinn, Estonia. A high-level report will
be published at the conclusion of the May meeting, and is expected to cover
the following areas:

   - A brief overview of the current Internet governance ecosystem
   - Opportunities and challenges facing the current ecosystem
   - Desirable ecosystem properties including:
      - Ecosystem legitimacy
      - Effective and inclusive multi-interest and consensus-based system
      - Ensuring global participation including from the developing world
      - Co-existence with other governance systems (national and
      multi-lateral) ensuring a stable system that is not prone to attack,
      mismanagement, and manipulation

 Panel members are working in their personal capacity. Members consist of:

   - *Mohamed Al Ghanim*, Founder and Director General of the UAE
   Telecommunications Regulatory Authority; former Vice-Chair, UAE Information
   and Communications Technology Fund; Chairman of WCIT-12
   - *Virgilio Fernandes Almeida*, Member of the Brazilian Academy of
   Sciences; Chair of Internet Steering Committee; National Secretary for
   Information Technology Policies
   - *Dorothy Attwood*, Senior Vice President of Global Public Policy, Walt
   Disney Company
   - *Mitchell Baker*, Chair, Mozilla Foundation; Chair and former CEO,
   Mozilla Corporation
   - *Francesco Caio*, CEO of Avio; former CEO, Cable and Wireless and
   Vodafone Italia; Founder of Netscalibur; broadband advisor in UK and Italy;
   Government Commissioner for Digital Agenda
   - *Vint Cerf*, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google;
   former Chairman, ICANN; Co-Founder of the Internet Society
   - *Fadi Chehade*, CEO and President of ICANN; Founder of Rosetta Net;
   technology executive
   - *Nitin Desai*, Indian economist and diplomat; former UN Undersecretary
   General; convener of Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)
   - *Byron Holland*, President and CEO of the Canadian Internet
   Registration Authority
   - *Toomas Hendrik Ilves*, President of Estonia; former diplomat and
   journalist; former Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Member of the
   European Parliament
   - *Ivo Ivanovski*, Minister of Information Society and Administration,
   Macedonia; Commissioner to the UN Broadband Commission for Digital
   Development
   - *Thorbjørn Jagland*, Secretary General of the Council of Europe;
   former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Norway
   - *Omobola Johnson*, Minister of Communication Technology of Nigeria
   - *Olaf Kolkman*, Director of NLnet Labs; "Evangineer" of the Open
   Internet; former Chair of the Internet Architecture Board
   - *Frank La Rue*, labor and human rights lawyer; UN Special Rapporteur
   on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and
   Expression; Founder, Center for Legal Action for Human Rights (CALDH)
   - *Robert M. McDowell*, former U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner;
   Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute's Center for Economics of the Internet
   - *Andile Ngcaba*, Chairman and Founder, Convergence Partners; Executive
   Chairman, Dimension Data Middle East and Africa; former South African
   Government Director General of Communications
   - *Liu Qingfeng*, CEO and President of iFLYTEK; Director of National
   Speech & Language Engineering Laboratory of China; Member of Interactive
   Technology Standards working group
   - *Lynn St. Amour*, President and CEO of the Internet Society; telecoms
   and IT executive
   - *Jimmy Wales*, Founder and Promoter of Wikipedia; Member of the Board
   of Trustees of Wikimedia Foundation
   - *Won-Pyo Hong*, President, Media Solution Center, Samsung Electronics

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 London Panel Agenda

*December 13*
   09:00 – 11:00

Backgrounder

*Expert presentations on Internet Cooperation and Governance to cover:*

   - History of Internet cooperation and overview of current ecosystem
   *Speaker: Vint Cerf*
   - Nature and scope of global Internet governance
   *Speaker: William Drake*
   - Current system opportunities and challenges: ( this includes
   legitimacy and mandate challenges, challenges for global participation and
   inclusion)
   *Speaker: David Gross & Bertrand de la Chapelle*

  11:00 – 11:15 Break  11:15 – 12:00 Backgrounder Q&A Session  12:00 – 13:00
Lunch  13:00 – 14:30

Developing Desirable System Properties

*Panel is split into the following four proposed tracks, each moderated by
an Internet Governance expert:*

   - Desirable properties for ecosystem legitimacy
   *Moderator: David Gross*
   - Desirable properties for an effective and inclusive multi-interest &
   consensus-based system
   *Moderator: Sally Wentworth*
   - Desirable properties to ensure global participation including from
   developing world
   *Moderator: William Drake*
   - Desirable properties for co-existence with other governance systems
   (national and multi-lateral) ensuring a stable system that is not prone to
   attack, mismanagement, and manipulation.
   *Moderator: Wolfgang Kleinwachter*

  14:30 – 14:45 Break  14:45 – 17:30

Joint Observations

*Panel members, moderated by experts, coalesce around a set of overall
joint observations on the desirable system properties*
  17:30 – 17:45 Break  17:45 – 18:30

Wrap-up

*Panel members discuss next steps, timelines/dates, communication rules and
modus operandi for panel*
   About The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands

The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, which operates The Annenberg
Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, is an independent
501(c)(3) nonprofit operating entity. The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands
hosts high-level retreats that address serious issues facing the nation and
the world, including the recent official meeting between President Obama
and President Xi of the People's Republic of China. In addition, Sunnylands
offers programs through the Sunnylands Center & Gardens to educate the
public about the history of Sunnylands, its architecture, art collections,
cultural significance, and sustainable practices.
 About ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an
internationally organised, non-profit corporation that has responsibility
for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier
assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name
system management, and root server system management functions. As a
private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the
operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to
achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to
developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up,
consensus-based processes. For more information please visit:
http://www.icann.org.
 About The World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization
committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in
partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Incorporated as a foundation in 1971 and headquartered in Geneva,
Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it
is tied to no political, partisan or national interests (
http://www.weforum.org).

*Editor's Note: The Panel was previously referred to as the Panel on the
Future of Global Internet Cooperation.*

For more information on the Panel, please contact: Pearson Cummings at
Pearson.Cummings at edelman.com.

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