<div dir="ltr">At our meeting with Fadi in NYC yesterday he seemed to be distancing the NMI process from the WEF <font face="yw-b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e-18ff71319f3c1b12bb050d48f5bd2bc2--o" style></font><div><br></div><div><a href="http://youtu.be/huI6PucrL7c">http://youtu.be/huI6PucrL7c</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Earlier he spoke of the undeniable need for a forum for nation states to discuss non-technical Internet issues. Later he described the NMI as a "blank slate" waiting for bottom-up initiatives. (I'll post full video later today)</div><div><br></div><div>So, perhaps he is coming to accept that the two ideas are not necessarily entirely compatible?</div><div><br></div><div>j</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:42 AM, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Civil society partnering with the WEF on a global governance
initiative is not the civil society we knew. It is something new.
But new can be interesting. Lets see where it leads us..<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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