<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I reckon I oughta keep my big yap trapped --- This Nitin Desai is UN undersecretary material and he really wants civil society involvement. I got this quote from his Freshwater Keynote address back in 2001 -- </div><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
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12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">"""Political
will:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "> </span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">A political will which is
expressed not only when we meet there, but which will sustain beyond that
meeting. And that is where particularly the involvement of the stakeholders and
civil society is so important, because it is a crucial instrument in
maintaining this commitment beyond this conference."""<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Of course it could be pointed out --- well never mind</span></p><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroap.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Milton L Mueller <mueller@syr.edu>; governance@lists.cpsr.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, July 2, 2010 5:39:14 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [governance] Workshops update, and decisions needed<br></font><br>
<div><div>On 03/07/2010, at 2:53 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" style="word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div class="WordSection1" style=""><div style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125);">You are kidding, right? Is this public information? Can I satirize this publicly? <…smacking his lips..></span></div><div style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div
style="border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-color:initial;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:blue;border-left-width:1.5pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:4pt;"><div><div style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:serif;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;">Nitin Desai and Markus Kummer also asked us to drop the word "revolutionary". <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(31, 73, 125);font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:15px;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>>>MARKUS KUMMER: Or should we delete the title "revolution"?<br> <br>>>NITIN DESAI: Can we at least drop the word "revolution"? Can we just say Internet governance ideas that can help change the world? That's ambitious enough. [Laughter]<br><br>>>NITIN DESAI: I have a
feeling this ‑‑ this thing needs some ‑‑ because people who read this and say ‑‑ could pretty easily ‑‑ some journalist picking this up could easily make fun of us, you know. [Laughter]<br><br>>>NITIN DESAI: So, say, "Ah, look at these guys, who really think that the IGF is about to ‑‑<br><br>>> (Speaker is off microphone).<br><br>>>NITIN DESAI: No, no. The point is that just think of a ‑‑ I think the idea that you have ‑‑ is a different type of workshop, which is not with a lot of prepared papers, speeches, panelists, but a space for people to ‑‑ where you could have a room saying that you are allowed to mention anything which has been mentioned in the main session. So the only people ‑‑ the only thing that you can come up with is something which is not on the table in the main session. But think of a title which does not lend itself to some
satirical references in the media, okay?<br><br><br><div>I wonder what he said when he was off microphone. Maybe "...change the world?" Now, there's a thought.<br><div>
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