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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 02 July 2015 05:56 AM,
Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear All,<br>
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Apologies for the crossposting but this I found interesting:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif">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 </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">GIGA
council held here <span tabindex="0" class=""><span
class="">Tuesday</span></span>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif">"This election
signifies trust in China's Internet, and how China
governs its Internet," said Ma</span></span></p>
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Very interesting! <br>
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Just jogging my memory but wasnt China's Internet related attitude
the original reason for so much opposition to UN based IG system.
But one reckons it is always all right when you come, as they say in
India, suited-booted, and are the rich and the elite. A clear proof
that anti UN ism was not against 'dangers to Internet freedom' but
against people and democracy . Against the latter taking control of
how the Internet and its associated digital technologies will
evolve. The powerful are always ready to make deals with other
powerful and that was always what the MetMundial Initiative was
about. It is the worst thing to happen to the global IG scene ever.
A complete and largely formal take over of global IG by the elite -
political as well as economic. A largely transparent cooptation in
the IG arena of the elite from the developing countries by that of
the developed ones.<br>
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The only more unfortunate thing has been that a large party of civil
society, especially its so called leaders, have merrily gone along,
god knows for what.<br>
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parminder <br>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif">.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif">The meeting was set to
discuss key issues related to international cooperation
on Internet governance while highlighting China's role.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif">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).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif">Rousseff had suggested
he find Chinese partners for cooperation, Chehade said.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif">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.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif">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. </span></span></p>
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