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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Not sure that I would argue about abandoning e-G8 – I think its quite useful if imbalanced, and is opening up some lines of communication with some excellent interventions and some good attendees.<BR>
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I’d rather discuss how we could make IGF as relevant by attracting the same calibre of attendees. IGF government attendees are usually way down the picking line; the business reps are not quite CEOs of large players such as Paypal, Google and Facebook – and similarly our civil society reps are not quite Jimmy Wales, John Perry Barlow etc.<BR>
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In other words, IGF has failed to attract high profile opinion leaders. If it continues as a second rate forum it will probably just fade away and no-one will notice. Which would be a pity – IGF is far more balanced, strives to achieve global and balanced inputs, and could be a really relevant and useful vehicle. <BR>
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>From our point of view, I am interested in how we can strengthen our inputs by involving and communicating with some of the higher profile civil society people who are not so involved with us at present. <BR>
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Ian Peter<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><BR>
<B>Organization: </B>Consumers International<BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wed, 25 May 2011 14:32:00 +0800<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, Roland Perry <<a href="roland@internetpolicyagency.com">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [governance] : e-G8 forum<BR>
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On 25/05/11 14:16, Roland Perry wrote: <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>In message <B97535D24829433AB1D5ECAC3B6AA468@userPC>, at 06:53:13 on Wed, 25 May 2011, Michael Gurstein <<a href="gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">mailto:gurstein@gmail.com</a>> writes <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Who is the host for next year's meeting? <BR>
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According to Wikipedia: <BR>
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"Each calendar year, the responsibility of hosting the G8 rotates through the member states in the following order: France, United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada." <BR>
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We could go further than we have, and argue that there should be no e-G8 next year, even if it were opened to broader participation, since it is duplicative and it distracts attention from other fora in which civil society's resources are already thinly enough spread.<BR>
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