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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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                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>
    <br>
    parminder <br>
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                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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                                style="font-family:garamond,serif">"You
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