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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 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 title=parminder@itforchange.net
href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=governance@lists.igcaucus.org
href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</A> ;
<A title=wjdrake@gmail.com href="mailto:wjdrake@gmail.com">William Drake</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [governance] [IP] WEF says it plans to build
multilateral architecture to govern internet</DIV></DIV></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><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>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On Saturday 11 October 2014 09:49 PM, William Drake
wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:64B4A30E-59B7-40CB-941A-7C52CDC66382@gmail.com
type="cite">Hi
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<DIV>The ill-chosen wording has been pointed out to the WEF and the text has
been changed.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Real quick stuff, i'd say, from both sides
:) .... parminder<BR><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><BR>
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<DIV>On Oct 10, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <<A
href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">suresh@hserus.net</A>> wrote:</DIV><BR
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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><BR>--srs (iPad)</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Begin forwarded message:<BR><BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><B>From:</B> "Dave Farber via ip" <<A
href="mailto:ip@listbox.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">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"
moz-do-not-send="true">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"
moz-do-not-send="true">dave@farber.net</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From:
"Ram Mohan" <<A href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info"
moz-do-not-send="true">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"
moz-do-not-send="true">dave@farber.net</A>><BR>Cc: "Ram Mohan" <<A
href="mailto:rmohan@afilias.info"
moz-do-not-send="true">rmohan@afilias.info</A>><BR><BR
type="attribution">
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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 moz-do-not-send="true">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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