What a sad news ! Je garde le souvenir d'un pionner du NPOC, ardent et brave travailleur. R.I.P. très cher Alain. Mes sincères condoléances à la famille éplorée. -Olevie-, tout ému ... 2014-02-07 Carlos A. Afonso <[log in to unmask]>: > 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 > > > > > > > -- Olévié (Olivier) A. A. KOUAMI Membre de ISoc (www.isog.org) & du FOSSFA (www.fossfa.net) DG Ets GIDA-OKTETS & CEO de INTIC4DEV (http://www.intic4dev.org) PC Vice Chair for Francophone Africa ICANN-NCSG/NPOC (http://www.npoc.org/) SG de ESTETIC (http://www.estetic.tg) Po Box : 851 - Tél.: (228) 90 98 86 50 / (228) 928 512 41 / (228) 224 999 25 Skype : olevie1 Facebook : @olivier.kouami.3 Twitter : #oleviek Lomé - Togo