[At-Large] [IP] WEF says it plans to build multilateral architecture to govern internet

Tue Oct 14 01:37:09 UTC 2014

Dear Bill,

thank you for this update. Good to hear this was an unfortunate mistake.
Kindest regards,

Olivier

On 11/10/2014 09:20, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
> The ill-chosen wording has been pointed out to the WEF and the text has been changed.  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 11, 2014, at 7:25 AM, Sébastien Bachollet <sebastien at bachollet.com> wrote:
>
>> I am sure it is a mistake
>> But can we be the one to bit them?
>> We are not able to make difference between international (inter nation)
>> and global.
>> We need to ask WEF an updated text.
>> But we need to be tolerant with new comers ;)
>> All the best
>> Sébastien Bachollet
>> +33 6 07 66 89 33
>> Blog: http://sebastien.bachollet.fr/
>> Mail: Sébastien Bachollet <sebastien at bachollet.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 10/10/2014 20:02, « Sivasubramanian M » <isolatedn at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> Dear Olivier,
>>>
>>> World Economic Forum can not possibly go with any plans to exclude
>>> Business
>>> from Internet Governance; If it does not exclude Business, it would have a
>>> hard time explaining why it includes Business and not Civil Society nor
>>> the
>>> Technical Community.
>>>
>>> As of now, the World Economic Forum is half way into the Multi-Stakeholder
>>> process by talking about a "Public - Private partnership".  For Internet
>>> Governance it would at least call for a public private partnership, and
>>> with some efforts, the Forum's outlook could get more evolved into a
>>> multi-stakeholder thinking.
>>>
>>> What needs to be done at this stage is to make sure that the 2500
>>> participants include a good number of stakeholders other than Government
>>> and Business.
>>>
>>> Sivasubramanian M
>>>
>>> Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Louis Houle <louis.houle at oricom.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Indeed.
>>>>
>>>> Louis Houle
>>>> President
>>>> ISOC Quebec
>>>>
>>>> Le 2014-10-10 20:25, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> the Press release below, which Ram refers to is, IMHO, problematic.
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Olivier
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>>> Subject:        [IP] WEF says it plans to build multilateral
>>>>> architecture
>>>>> to
>>>>> govern internet
>>>>> Date:   Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:19:59 -0400
>>>>> From:   Dave Farber via ip <ip at listbox.com>
>>>>> Reply-To:       dave at farber.net
>>>>> To:     ip <ip at listbox.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------- 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 ³build a
>>>>> broad-based, multilateral global architecture for governing the
>>>>> internet² that might be interesting to the IP readership.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Excerpt below:
>>>>>
>>>>> ³The 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 world¹s 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 Forum¹s Gender Parity Taskforces, which
>>>>> work with governments worldwide to improve economic opportunity for the
>>>>> female half of the population.²
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Ram
>>>>>
>>>>>
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