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<DIV>Please feel free to copy to other lists – here is a Communique from the
Netmundial Initiative meeting held in Madrid on February 26.</DIV>
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<DIV>My own take is that the meeting decided on some sensible changes, while
still needing to clarify others, and I welcome the institutional home within
CGI.br if that goes ahead . Much discussion centred on the replacement of
the Inaugural Co-ordination Council – suggestions included a smaller flatter
structure, a renaming (Advisory Group was favoured by some); this is going to be
the subject of a public consultation in coming weeks before this is
finalised.</DIV>
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<DIV>I also personally welcome the idea, promoted by Wolfgang Kleinwachter, of a
NMI+5 conference in 2019, and look forward to discussions on how that might take
place. </DIV>
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<DIV>More on these ideas as they develop in coming months.</DIV>
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<DIV>Ian Peter</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>