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<span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:13px">Antonio Medina Gómez</span></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Asociación</font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Colombiana de Usuarios de Internet</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-02-11 6:17 GMT-05:00 Adam Peake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp" target="_blank">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Congratulations to Jeanette in particular :-)<br>
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<<a href="http://netmundial.br/blog/2014/02/10/netmundial-welcome-board-members/" target="_blank">http://netmundial.br/blog/2014/02/10/netmundial-welcome-board-members/</a>><br>
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Sao Paulo, February 10, 2014 - In alignment with the multistakeholder spirit of the meeting, the Chairman of the NETmundial, Professor Virgílio Fernandes Almeida, has invited distinguished names to co-chair and lead the NETmundial organization.<br>
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>From the academia, Jeanette Hofmann: an expert on internet governance, senior researcher at Social Science Research Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB), Research Officer at London School of Economics and Political Science, and also professor at Humboldt - University of Berlin.<br>
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As part of the civil society, Subi Chaturvedi is an activist-academician, from Delhi University, and also an active research scholar at the Indian Institute of technology (IIT-D). As a media critic she writes extensively on best practices on Internet governance and the way forward through a bottoms up, inclusive, multistakeholder, approach to preserve core internet values.<br>
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Representing the private sector, Andile Ngcaba is chairman, founder and majority shareholder of investment group Convergence Partners.<br>
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Complementing the group and representing the technical community is Fadi Chehade, President and CEO of ICANN, that holds more than 25 years of experience in building and leading progressive Internet enterprises.<br>
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Together, the multistakeholder chairmanship will ensure coordination among all the committees and the success of the conference. They will have their first meeting this Friday, February 14th, where they will discuss further coordination mechanisms, document drafting process, among other internal details.<br>
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