<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">In my imagination I have created an origin myth for the IGC.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Way back at the beginning I see a group of people who all recognise their differences and their diversity but who, at the same time, all identify themselves as belonging to civil society. I see them recognising the potential weakening effect of those differences to the presentation of a common approach, and therefore the desirability of a “civil society” space for objective discussion and negotiation of the differences and the diversity towards what common position may be possible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">I wasn’t there. Those who were can debunk the myth as necessary.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Within the context of this imaginary myth:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Last year Nnenna spoke at the Netmundial meeting in Sao Paolo. Many of us were very enthusiastic about that speech. Daniel Pimienta suggested that we might work on distilling it into a set of principles that, as civil society, we could support. But we moved on to other things.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">This morning Nnenna made another speech. </span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:16px">Jean-Christophe has stated what he disliked/disapproved of/disagreed with about the speech. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Other</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black"> people offered uncritical praise for what she had said. But we should not be “uncritical” with our praise. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">It would be good to see some constructive discussion of what she had to say.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Best wishes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Deirdre</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></p><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 April 2015 at 07:06, Jean-Christophe NOTHIAS I The Global Journal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jc.nothias@theglobaljournal.net" target="_blank">jc.nothias@theglobaljournal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Optima;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px"><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px"><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Optima;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing:0px">Hi Nnenna from the Internet,</span><br></p><div style="font-style:normal"></div></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></blockquote><div>....</div></div>-- <br><div>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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