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.
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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
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> "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured
> in an unjust state" -Confucius
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> Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar)
> Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3
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