<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On 6 July 2015 at 16:41, Douglas Onyango </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:ondouglas@gmail.com" target="_blank">ondouglas@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for the explanation.<br>
I think a lot of people will be pleased to learn that we don't have<br>
another entity cropping up in this space.<br>
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Your response w.r.t to Chinese reporting also clarifies why Jack Ma's<br>
appointment seems to overshadow the rest of the co-chairs.<br>
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I guess this frees us up to deliberate more on the arbitrary and<br>
unprecedented co-chair selection criteria.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">I suppose so, and I too appreciate the explanation ... though the episode, as described, indicates a remarkable lack of media relations competence. Such a major issues as "what is the group named", one would think, should not be the subject of such needless confusion.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">But now that THAT's out of the way .... we can get back to the original issue of trying to figure out exactly what problem this organization -- whatever it is called -- is supposed to non-redundantly solve. ;-) Adding Chinese representation to the mix doesn't magically provide an answer to that question.</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">- Evan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"></div></div></div>
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