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With apologies to those associated with it I mostly agree with
Milton. Also association with US State Department initiatives often
backfires on those working in parts of the world where these are
viewed (and often rightly) with suspicion.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/09/15 8:36 AM, Mueller, Milton L
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would oppose signing it. My opposition comes partly from it
being outside of NCUC’s remit as a GNSO constituency and
partly from the fact that there are parts of the statement I
don’t agree with. Even those parts I do agree with I think
raise false expectations for no purpose other than the
political posturing benefit of the proposers. Did I miss
something or how many trillions of dollars are being
allocated to this program in order to move African internet
penetration up from 16% to, um, 30%? I see a lot of feelgood
statements about how the world needs more internet and not a
single concrete proposal that moves us toward that goal,
and I just have an inherent tendency to resist being drawn
into these kinds of PR things. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>William Drake<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 26, 2015 4:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NCUC-discuss
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org"><ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NCUC-DISCUSS] Global Connect
Initiative?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">People who are on the various
broad-focus civil society Internet governance lists may
have seen the traffic e.g. below from Carolina about the
USG’s Global Connect Initiative. A number of civil
society orgs including NCUC members are doing a sign-on
letter endorsing and seeking to help steer the effort in
hopes of increasing the alignment with our broad common
denominator orientations. How would people feel about
NCUC signing on? While the issues involved obviously go
beyond ICANN matters there’s certainly enough overlap to
say it’s not out of scope, and it’s sort of a pity that we
being one of the oldest and largest CS coalitions on
Internet governance are usually sitting on the sidelines
when people organize such things….<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any thoughts either way?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bill<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">From:
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</b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Carolina
Rossini <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Subject:
[bestbits] Global Connect</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Date:
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</b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">September
26, 2015 at 2:54:50 AM GMT+2</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Carolina
Rossini <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:carolina.rossini@gmail.com">carolina.rossini@gmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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friends, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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am glad to share with you the final statement on
the occasion of the launch of the US initiative <b>Global
Connect</b>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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href="http://bestbits.net/global-connect-initiative/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/global-connect-initiative/">http://bestbits.net/global-connect-initiative/</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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will have a series of civil society members
present during the launch and I do hope they are
granted some time to deliver a shorter version on
this comments. A printed version will be hand
delivered. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
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week, PK has also published a short press-release
on the issue:<o:p></o:p></p>
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regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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