<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><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><div><br></div><div>They do talk about gender parity, which will be interesting on how they plan to work this into an iGov model.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Dave Farber via ip" <<a href="mailto:ip@listbox.com">ip@listbox.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 11 October 2014 00:49:59 IST<br><b>To:</b> "ip" <<a href="mailto:ip@listbox.com">ip@listbox.com</a>><br><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">dave@farber.net</a><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Ram Mohan" <<a href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info">rmohan@afilias.info</a>><br>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 href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>><br>Cc: "Ram Mohan" <<a href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info">rmohan@afilias.info</a>><br><br type="attribution"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><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">press release</a> 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><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><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><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">-Ram</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div><div style="width:auto;margin:0;padding:5px;background-color:#fff;clear:both;border-top: 1px solid #ccc;" bgcolor="#ffffff"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="background-color:#fff" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td padding="4px"><br></td><td valign="top" align="right"><a style="border-bottom:none;" href="http://www.listbox.com">
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