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

[João Carlos R. Caribé]

Exactly Norbert!

Jack Ma was elected as co-chair of Net Mundial Initiative, probably your thesis of translations of translations was right, otherwise was physically impossible, since Ma left São Paulo to Beijing just after the election, and no one IG event was noticed here on same day e location.   

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> Em 02/07/2015, às 10:44, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> escreveu:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 07:46:33 -0400
> "Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google" <tracyhackshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is GIGA the new name of the NETmundial Initiative Coordinating
>> Council or is it something different?
> 
> I think that "GIGA" is probably the result of the following four-step
> process:
> 
> 1. Someone translated "NETmundial initiative" into Chinese.
> 2. Someone else translated that Chinese translation back into English,
>   with a result of "Global Internet Governance Alliance".
> 3. A third person used "GIGA" as an informal shorthand for "Global
>   Internet Governance Alliance".
> 4. A fourth person thought that "Global Internet Governance Alliance"
>   and "GIGA" were the official name and official acronym.
> 
> Greetings,
> Norbert
> 
>> 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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