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From: Shaun Pather <spather@uwc.ac.za>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018, 17:10
Subject: Summary: meeting at Gaite Lyrique (15 Nov 2018)
To: Carlos Rey-Moreno <carlos@apc.org>, Carlos Rey-Moreno <carlos.reymoreno@gmail.com>

Report back session

 

Group :  CN Summit

·       Use pf the declaration and its purpose

·       How to get everyone involved

·       Levelling the playing field

·       Need an oversight committee for preparatory process

·       Must be a bottom up from regions to global

·       Focus on commonalities

·       Build on previous initiatives

·       Gathering needed before the summit of the CNs – spaces to accommodate local circumstances

·       Risk – stress in the process may backfire

·       Should not start with a blank page – but needs a framework document to be setup

·       Wireless international group is already meeting – need to ensure their inclusion

·       Role of woman to shape the process

Group:  Inclusivity

·       Inclusivity is a broad issue: Gender, territorial, Language

·       Gender:  Cultural constrains in general is noted; needs to be a deepening of understanding of power relationships and roles of different members of society in each region

·       CN definition to help people realise if they need to be part of the process

·       Energy on putting action on sensitive groups – to empower marginalised people in more roles

·       Technologies that can be made your own has an important role e.g. Alta Mundi

·       As a collective of CNs – need to reflect more on what it means to be more diverse and inclusive

·       Actions must be undertaken as close to the ground as possible e.g. local content process

·       Regional diversity:  No representation of the Asia-Pacific region – must be addressed;  note several examples from this region in GisWatch

·       Language diversity:  Regional discussions are very important; therefore work at the regional level – before global level; noted that Francophone not represented – must be addressed; See Alta Mundi translation project – where communities undertook translation.

·       Race is also an issue to be addressed

Group:  Policy

·       Work at national and regional level to obtain access to fibre and spectrum – provide exemplars (write up cases) as to how this can be done for others to learn from

·       Similarly access to USFs – which must be more flexible in what they fund e.g. skills development, tech development

·       Spectrum Access:  Has to be taken to regulators and a wider community of stakeholders; therefore need to provide some information pack in this regard

·       Access to backhaul:  Bring cases that can demonstrate benefits of access; try to make governments look good in the process;  

·       Select best practice cases from different countries and provide such info to government

·       Problem of treating first nations as a country within a country must be addressed

·       GisWatch / or continuation can be used for advocacy purposes

Report back session

 

Group :  CN Summit

·       Use pf the declaration and its purpose

·       How to get everyone involved

·       Levelling the playing field

·       Need an oversight committee for preparatory process

·       Must be a bottom up from regions to global

·       Focus on commonalities

·       Build on previous initiatives

·       Gathering needed before the summit of the CNs – spaces to accommodate local circumstances

·       Risk – stress in the process may backfire

·       Should not start with a blank page – but needs a framework document to be setup

·       Wireless international group is already meeting – need to ensure their inclusion

·       Role of woman to shape the process

Group:  Inclusivity

·       Inclusivity is a broad issue: Gender, territorial, Language

·       Gender:  Cultural constrains in general is noted; needs to be a deepening of understanding of power relationships and roles of different members of society in each region

·       CN definition to help people realise if they need to be part of the process

·       Energy on putting action on sensitive groups – to empower marginalised people in more roles

·       Technologies that can be made your own has an important role e.g. Alta Mundi

·       As a collective of CNs – need to reflect more on what it means to be more diverse and inclusive

·       Actions must be undertaken as close to the ground as possible e.g. local content process

·       Regional diversity:  No representation of the Asia-Pacific region – must be addressed;  note several examples from this region in GisWatch

·       Language diversity:  Regional discussions are very important; therefore work at the regional level – before global level; noted that Francophone not represented – must be addressed; See Alta Mundi translation project – where communities undertook translation.

·       Race is also an issue to be addressed

Group:  Policy

·       Work at national and regional level to obtain access to fibre and spectrum – provide exemplars (write up cases) as to how this can be done for others to learn from

·       Similarly access to USFs – which must be more flexible in what they fund e.g. skills development, tech development

·       Spectrum Access:  Has to be taken to regulators and a wider community of stakeholders; therefore need to provide some information pack in this regard

·       Access to backhaul:  Bring cases that can demonstrate benefits of access; try to make governments look good in the process;  

·       Select best practice cases from different countries and provide such info to government

·       Problem of treating first nations as a country within a country must be addressed

·       GisWatch / or continuation can be used for advocacy purposes