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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 02 September 2014 02:19 PM,
Anne Jellema wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:38 PM,
parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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note that no one has proposed the World Social Forum to
hold the global IG process together, as the WEF is being
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Quoting from our post-NMI blog:</div>
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Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px">More
broadly, the views of the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Social_Forum"
style="color:rgb(64,127,33);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(122,184,0);font-family:'Lucida
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Social Forum</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Lucida
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Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.5px"> (like
the NETmundial summit, another initiative memorably nurtured
by the government of Brazil) are just as vital as those of
the World Economic Forum, and likely to be diametrically
opposed on some issues — isn’t that what
‘multi-stakeholderism’ means?</span><br>
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Yes, Anne, I read the blog, but reserved my comments for later... <br>
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Just on the point above, I have nothing against taking 'the views of
WEF' as you ask for doing for WSF above... Of course everyone should
contribute views. However, we all know that WEF's NMI is not about
contributing WEF's views, it is about institutionalising something
that is supposed to crystallise the spirit (variously interpreted)
of Net Mundial, as a/ the key global IG process. I meant in that
sense "to hold the global IG process together". And of course your
blog does not suggest such a role for the World Social Forum. It is
a bit of an exclusive role in that sense, I think we need to avoid
confusion between (1) something being just another global IG
initiative and (2) the kind of special aspirations that the WEF's NM
initiative has. Of course as just another initiative no one can have
any problem with it. In fact that is what I said clearly in my first
posting on the WEF's NM Initiative on the IGC list.<br>
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