[governance] [IP] WEF says it plans to build multilateral architecture to govern internet

[parminder]

On Saturday 11 October 2014 09:49 PM, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> The ill-chosen wording has been pointed out to the WEF and the text 
> has been changed.

Real quick stuff, i'd say, from both sides :)  .... parminder

>  It now says "a multistakeholder endeavour to stimulate more 
> cross-industry and cross-ministry strategic dialogue on ways to 
> strengthen multistakeholder Internet governance ‎and cooperation.” 
>  This is a separate track of activity from the NMI/platform for 
> collaborative projects.
>
> http://www.weforum.org/news/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2015-address-new-global-context?news=page
>
> Best
>
> Bill
>
> On Oct 10, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net 
> <mailto:suresh at hserus.net>> wrote:
>
>> "Broad based" and "multilateral" seem to be a contradiction in terms, 
>> though possibly this is from a group less concerned with the finer 
>> points of igov jargon than most of the existing actors are?
>>
>> They do talk about gender parity, which will be interesting on how 
>> they plan to work this into an iGov model.
>>
>> --srs (iPad)
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> *From:* "Dave Farber via ip" <ip at listbox.com <mailto:ip at listbox.com>>
>>> *Date:* 11 October 2014 00:49:59 IST
>>> *To:* "ip" <ip at listbox.com <mailto:ip at listbox.com>>
>>> *Subject:* *[IP] WEF says it plans to build multilateral 
>>> architecture to govern internet*
>>> *Reply-To:* dave at farber.net <mailto:dave at farber.net>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: "Ram Mohan" <rmohan at afilias.info <mailto:rmohan at afilias.info>>
>>> Date: Oct 10, 2014 2:48 PM
>>> Subject: WEF says it plans to build multilateral architecture to 
>>> govern internet
>>> To: "Dave Farber" <dave at farber.net <mailto:dave at farber.net>>
>>> Cc: "Ram Mohan" <rmohan at afilias.info <mailto:rmohan at afilias.info>>
>>>
>>> Dave,
>>>
>>> Here is a piece from a press release 
>>> <http://www.weforum.org/news/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2015-address-new-global-context?news=page> 
>>> by the World Economic Forum (WEF) regarding their plan to “build a 
>>> broad-based, multilateral global architecture for governing the 
>>> internet” that might be interesting to the IP readership.
>>>
>>>
>>> Excerpt below:
>>>
>>> “The Annual Meeting 2015 will provide a platform for over 50 
>>> initiatives that are currently being led by the Forum, with the aim 
>>> of contributing positive, transformative change to the global 
>>> agenda, as well as those of industry, business and the world’s 
>>> regions. These include a public-private initiative to help achieve 
>>> zero net tropical deforestation caused by key agricultural 
>>> commodities by 2020; an endeavour to build a broad-based, 
>>> multilateral global architecture for governing the internet; and the 
>>> Forum’s Gender Parity Taskforces, which work with governments 
>>> worldwide to improve economic opportunity for the female half of the 
>>> population.”
>>>
>>>
>>> -Ram
>>>
>>>
>>>
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