[governance] [bestbits] Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, elected co-chairman of Global Internet Governance Alliance

[Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google]

Is GIGA the new name of the NETmundial Initiative Coordinating Council or
is it something different? Same meeting date. Same location.

See
https://www.netmundial.org/blog/secretariat/s%C3%A3o-paulo-communiqu%C3%A9-inaugural-council-meeting



On 1 July 2015 at 18:34, Lorena Jaume-Palasi <lorena at collaboratory.de>
wrote:

>
> FYI
> http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-07/01/c_134373596.htm
>
> SAO PAULO, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Jack Ma, founder of China's ecommerce giant
> Alibaba, was elected co-chairman of the Global Internet Governance Alliance
> (GIGA) at the first general meeting of GIGA council held here Tuesday.
>
> "This election signifies trust in China's Internet, and how China governs
> its Internet," said Ma.
>
> The meeting was set to discuss key issues related to international
> cooperation on Internet governance while highlighting China's role.
>
> Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff had called for a just and equal global
> Internet environment and regarded China as the "key factor to the success
> of global Internet governance," said Fadi Chehade, president of the
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
>
> Rousseff had suggested he find Chinese partners for cooperation, Chehade
> said.
>
> To establish a multiple-stakeholder platform, Chehade said that dialogues
> among different partners should be improved, the platform should be
> transparent and just, and all stakeholders should be able to equally
> participate in global Internet governance.
>
> GIGA is co-sponsored by ICANN, the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee
> and the World Economic Forum to provide a platform for the discussion of
> Internet governance solutions.
>
>
> --
>
> Lorena Jaume-Palasí ∙ Coordinator, Global Internet Governance
> Arbeitsgruppe
>
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