“I welcome the NetMundial initiative announced today, which is based on the principles and roadmap developed in Brazil last April by the global Internet multistakeholder community. I hope it will be successful in advancing multistakeholder Internet governance that is open, transparent and allows for the participation of all interested parties.”"The NETmundial Initiative Launch Webinar took place on Thursday, November 6, 2014 (7:00 AM PST). According to the sponsoring organizations, ICANN, World Economic Forum (WEF) and Brazil's CGI.br the webinar session marked the official launch of the NETmundial Initiative, shaped by the feedback collected from the various community dialogues since the NETmundial-inspired meeting hosted by the World Economic Forum in Geneva on 28 August 2014. Representing the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), were Virgilio Augusto Fernandes Almeida (CGI.br), Richard Samans (WEF), and Fadi Chehadé (ICANN), who discussed developments in the Initiative including the website netmundial.org and its role in energizing multistakeholder, bottom-up, collaborative Internet governance solutions in a distributed ecosystem. In addition, a Coordination Council is to be formed--for more information on this and all aspects of the NETmundial Initiative, go to the website: netmundial.org
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