<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thanks Bill</div><div><br></div><div>And this is one of those rare occasions where I find myself agreeing with Parminder.  So thanks Parminder too.  Really quick work.<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 11-Oct-2014, at 22:18, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
  
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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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.weforum.org/news/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2015-address-new-global-context?news=page">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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>>
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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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              <blockquote type="cite"><b>From:</b> "Dave Farber via ip"
                <<a moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" 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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a><br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>><br>
                  Cc: "Ram Mohan" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info">rmohan@afilias.info</a>><br>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Dave,</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Here is a piece from a <a moz-do-not-send="true" 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>
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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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                    <p class="MsoNormal">-Ram</p>
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