This is well underway. You can go back down the live timeline to catch up. . Look to the tweets for some summary. It seems with Tim B-L and others sounding cautious notes about preserving openness the outlook is generally positive. Myself I am tuned into the AfPIF <https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/AfPIF2014day3/> but in my brief visit to the livestream I heard Fadi announce "CYBERSPACE IS DEAD!"... joly posted: "As a followup the NetMundial meeting in Brazil in April 2014 the World Economic Forum has initiated the NETmundial Initiative for Internet Governance Cooperation & Development. Today Thursday 28 August 2014 they are holding the Initial Scoping Meeting" [image: WEF Netmundial] <https://webcasts.weforum.org/widget/1/NETmundial?p=1&pi=1&ms=1&th=2>As a followup the *NetMundial* <http://netmundial.br/> meeting in Brazil in April 2014 the *World Economic Forum* <http://www.weforum.org/> has initiated the *NETmundial Initiative for Internet Governance Cooperation & Development* <http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_1NetmundialInitiativeBrief.pdf>. Today *Thursday 28 August 2014* they are holding the *Initial Scoping Meeting* <https://webcasts.weforum.org/widget/1/NETmundial?p=1&pi=1&ms=1&th=2> in Geneva with leaders from government, business, civil society and academia. *Participants <http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_4NETmundialListofParticipants.pdf>* include *Kathryn Brown* of the Internet Society, *Fadi Chehadé* of ICANN, *Tim Berners Lee* of WWWF, *Hamadoun Touré* of the ITU, and *Lawrence Strickling* of the NTIA. It is being webcast live the WEF Livestream Channel. *What*: *NETmundial Initiative Initial Scoping Meeting <https://webcasts.weforum.org/widget/1/NETmundial?p=1&pi=1&ms=1&th=2>* *Where*: Geneva Switzerland *When*: Thursday 28 August 2014 0900-1800 CEST | 0700-1600 UTC *Agenda*: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_3NETmundialInitiativeLaunchAgenda.pdf *Webcast*: http://new.livestream.com/wef/events/3320009 *Twitter*: #netmundial <https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23netmundial&src=typd> Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6931#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6931#comments> *Permalink*: http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6931 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -