<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I wrote that in a hurry. The other part - power struggle where the ultimate winners are the governments, with those GONGOs that are content and even happy to lobby for government interests possibly  discarded by the wayside is what strikes me as a losing proposition<br><br>--srs</div><div><br>On 24-Dec-2015, at 12:20 AM, Mawaki Chango <<a href="mailto:kichango@gmail.com">kichango@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Do you mean to say building bridges among stakeholders strikes you as a losing proposition? Am I following your sentence structure correctly?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">mC </div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div></div></span></div></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">True. Building bridges among stakeholders rather than engaging in a power struggle the ultimate winners of which are going to be the governments strikes me as a losing proposition<br>
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--srs<br>
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> On 23-Dec-2015, at 9:43 PM, Garth Graham <<a href="mailto:garth.graham@telus.net">garth.graham@telus.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Connect (or cooperate), until the other defects, then compete until the other connects.  And, yes, all that does is restate the golden rule in systems terms.<br>
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