[governance] The seeds of change in the IGF

[Veni Markovski]

I join Avri in this. Actually for governments - if they agree, they 
say it. The "silence approval" is not valid there.

veni

At 05:57 AM 2/14/2007  +0100, Avri Doria wrote:
>hi,
>
>On 14 feb 2007, at 03.34, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
>>Of course, there were dissenting voices as always (though mostly
>>from the private sector, and even civil society, more so than
>>governments),
>
>
>a small point, just because the governments do not disagree with
>something in public is no reason to assume they are in agreement.  i
>do not know if they have dissented in the background, but governments
>are the ones who participate in the UN all the time and the ones who
>have access to UNSG's office.
>
>i am not trying to say they did dissent, but they generally don't do
>their dissenting too publicly.  also, think of all the countries that
>said nothing or essentially nothing.
>
>a.
>
>
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