<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 05/02/2012, at 1:33 AM, michael gurstein wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div dir="ltr" lang="en-us" class="OutlookMessageHeader" align="left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">What this tells me, and particularly from a CS
perspective is that we as CS in the context of the IGC need to step back a bit
and enter into a more deliberate process of reflection and positon development
on these very important issues.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" lang="en-us" class="OutlookMessageHeader" align="left"><font face="Tahoma"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><span class="678171217-04022012">I'm wondering if funds couldn't be found to stage an
online/offline event to discuss these issues and to help to formulate a CS
position on these. (Note that the OECD counterpart to the IGC has now obtained
limited but useful funding from Soros/OSI.</span></font></font></div>
</blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>When I stepped down I promised to look into funding options for the IGC, and I approached two funders about it, both of whom responded that they were not interested in receiving a funding proposal from the IGC at present. This doesn't mean we couldn't try again if we had a particular activity to fund, such as this online/offline event of which you speak.</div><br><div>
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