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    Lovely Ian and so true!<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/11/2014 6:36 PM, Ian Peter wrote:<br>
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          <div>a beautiful example of multistakeholder coagulation – a
            state that arrives when too much spin is applied.</div>
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                <div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
                    moz-do-not-send="true" title="suresh@hserus.net"
                    href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">Suresh
                    Ramasubramanian</a> </div>
                <div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 12, 2014 11:37 AM</div>
                <div><b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    title="parminder@itforchange.net"
                    href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder</a>
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                <div><b>Cc:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    title="governance@lists.igcaucus.org"
                    href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>
                  ; <a moz-do-not-send="true" title="wjdrake@gmail.com"
                    href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">William Drake</a> </div>
                <div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] [IP] WEF says it
                  plans to build multilateral architecture to govern
                  internet</div>
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            <div>Thanks Bill</div>
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            <div>And this is one of those rare occasions where I find
              myself agreeing with Parminder.  So thanks Parminder too. 
              Really quick work.<br>
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              --srs (iPad)</div>
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              On 11-Oct-2014, at 22:18, parminder <<a
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                href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>>
              wrote:<br>
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                <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 11 October 2014
                  09:49 PM, William Drake wrote:<br>
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                  <div>The ill-chosen wording has been pointed out to
                    the WEF and the text has been changed.</div>
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                Real quick stuff, i'd say, from both sides :)  ....
                parminder<br>
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                  <div>It now says "a multistakeholder endeavour to
                    stimulate more cross-industry and cross-ministry
                    strategic dialogue on ways to strengthen
                    multistakeholder Internet governance ‎and
                    cooperation.”  This is a separate track of activity
                    from the NMI/platform for collaborative projects.</div>
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                  <div><a
href="http://www.weforum.org/news/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2015-address-new-global-context?news=page"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.weforum.org/news/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2015-address-new-global-context?news=page</a></div>
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                  <div>Best</div>
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                  <div>Bill<br>
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                      <div>On Oct 10, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Suresh
                        Ramasubramanian <<a
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                        wrote:</div>
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                          <div>"Broad based" and "multilateral" seem to
                            be a contradiction in terms, though possibly
                            this is from a group less concerned with the
                            finer points of igov jargon than most of the
                            existing actors are?  </div>
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                          <div>They do talk about gender parity, which
                            will be interesting on how they plan to work
                            this into an iGov model.<br>
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                            --srs (iPad)</div>
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                            Begin forwarded message:<br>
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                          <blockquote type="cite"><b>From:</b> "Dave
                            Farber via ip" <<a
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                            <b>Date:</b> 11 October 2014 00:49:59 IST<br>
                            <b>To:</b> "ip" <<a
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                            <b>Subject:</b> <b>[IP] WEF says it plans
                              to build multilateral architecture to
                              govern internet</b><br>
                            <b>Reply-To:</b> <a
                              href="mailto:dave@farber.net"
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                              From: "Ram Mohan" <<a
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                              Date: Oct 10, 2014 2:48 PM<br>
                              Subject: WEF says it plans to build
                              multilateral architecture to govern
                              internet<br>
                              To: "Dave Farber" <<a
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                                moz-do-not-send="true">dave@farber.net</a>><br>
                              Cc: "Ram Mohan" <<a
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                                <p class="MsoNormal">Dave,</p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal">Here is a piece
                                  from a <a
href="http://www.weforum.org/news/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2015-address-new-global-context?news=page"
                                    target="_blank"
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                                  by the World Economic Forum (WEF)
                                  regarding their plan to “build a
                                  broad-based, multilateral global
                                  architecture for governing the
                                  internet” that might be interesting to
                                  the IP readership.</p>
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                                <p class="MsoNormal">Excerpt below:</p>
                                <p class="MsoNormal">“The Annual Meeting
                                  2015 will provide a platform for over
                                  50 initiatives that are currently
                                  being led by the Forum, with the aim
                                  of contributing positive,
                                  transformative change to the global
                                  agenda, as well as those of industry,
                                  business and the world’s regions.
                                  These include a public-private
                                  initiative to help achieve zero net
                                  tropical deforestation caused by key
                                  agricultural commodities by 2020; an
                                  endeavour to build a broad-based,
                                  multilateral global architecture for
                                  governing the internet; and the
                                  Forum’s Gender Parity Taskforces,
                                  which work with governments worldwide
                                  to improve economic opportunity for
                                  the female half of the population.”</p>
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