Hi It's really interesting reading people's stories about Alain and his many interests outside ICANN ( which is refreshing to hear) The last couple of years I managed to capture a number of images and video of NPOC and Alain so we have his eloquent and thoughtful insights recorded. Here is a playlist of the NPOC Sessions http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeYfhcpf4QSDaawP2adGl0WfsdEMYam7 He will be missed Glenn Glenn McKnight [log in to unmask] skype gmcknight twitter gmcknight . On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, Sam, I remember him from Bellanet. Great contributions of our > fellow Canadian. I recall trying to help mediate a meeting between NCUC > and NPOC with him and Klaus Stoll to try and minimize certain > differences, and Alain was fundamental in cooling down and being sensible. > > RIP Alain! > > --c.a. > > On 02/07/2014 10:59 AM, Sam Lanfranco wrote: > > I too would like to pay tribute to the memory of Alain Berranger. > > > > I knew Alain for almost twenty years. He was at Canada's International > > Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa when in the mid-1990s I and > > several others built the Bellanet Secretariate, housed at IDRC and an > early > > effort at using ICT for global development collaboration. Marie-Laure has > > kindly written about Alain so I will add nothing. It was Alain who > brought > > me into the NPOC, NCSG, ICANN orbit. > > > > I too will miss him, though his memory lives on in NPOC and ICANN's > > multistakeholder model. > > > > Sam Lanfranco > > ---------------------------------------------- > > "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured > > in an unjust state" -Confucius > > ---------------------------------------------- > > Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar) > > Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3 > > email: [log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) Skype: slanfranco > > blog: http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com ( > http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com) > > Phone: 613 476-0429 cell: 416-816-2852 > > > > > > >