<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 8:49 AM <<a href="mailto:david_allen_ab63@post.harvard.edu">david_allen_ab63@post.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I do not notice that the MAG chair answered the question, as to which side, and specifically who, initiated.<br>
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David<br></blockquote><div><br></div><ol><li style="margin-left:15px">The MAG Chair had been invited to previous World Economic Forums before to speak. The MAG would usually be informed after the fact. The invitation would go directly to her in her individual and personal capacity but she would report back to the MAG.<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">It was on a MAG call that I had asked her to include and involve the wider MAG to ensure diversity of input.<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">The proposal for collaboration is not about the merger of the IGF and the WEF it is simply understanding that these are two completely different platforms as CPU articulated but seeing some level of <i>syncing issues</i>.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">As for who initiated the collaboration, it is unknown but the WEF like many others have been in IGFs as a participant etc.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">There is a MAG member who is from WEF although in their individual capacity now.</li></ol><div>Sala </div></div></div></div></div>