[discuss] The Economist on NETmundial - "An online Risorgimento"

Sivasubramanian M isolatedn at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 06:38:11 UTC 2014


Dear Pindar Wong,

A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil?  Interesting title. But I can't
locate the article by search. Please be kind enough to point me to the link

Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>



On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Pindar Wong <pindar.wong at gmail.com> wrote:

> A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil
> The Times
> They Are A-Changin
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> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:33 AM, John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote:
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>> “IF WE want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” The
>> words, uttered by a Sicilian aristocrat on the eve of Italian unification
>> in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s classic “The Leopard”, neatly sum up the
>> sentiment at NETmundial. The big internet-governance powwow held in São
>> Paulo on April 23rd-24th brought together 1,200-odd participants, including
>> government officials, boffins, representatives of NGOs and business from 97
>> countries. Most shared a desire to prevent the internet's break-up. This,
>> many believe, requires an overhaul of the way it is run."
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>> Full story - <
>> http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/04/internet-governance#sthash.aoDnW5Kq.dpbs
>> >
>>
>> FYI,
>> /John
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