[governance] : e-G8 forum

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On 25/05/11 14:16, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <B97535D24829433AB1D5ECAC3B6AA468 at userPC>, at 06:53:13 on
> Wed, 25 May 2011, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> writes
>
>> Who is the host for next year's meeting?
>
> According to Wikipedia:
>
> "Each calendar year, the responsibility of hosting the G8 rotates
> through the member states in the following order: France, United
> States, United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada."

We could go further than we have, and argue that there should be no e-G8
next year, even if it were opened to broader participation, since it is
duplicative and it distracts attention from other fora in which civil
society's resources are already thinly enough spread.

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