Yes. NMI is agreed to be a joint project facilitation platform initiated by ICANN/
CGI.br/WEF that will hopefully draw in other participants who will shape it and keep it limited in scope so there’s no wandering into governance policies that need to be worked out in more fully open and inclusive forums.
Separately, WEF has its own discussions about issues, just like ICANN,
CGI.br, or anyone else who wants to. At Davos there will be perhaps six events related to the Internet. Some will likely be broadly focused e.g. on the future of the Internet economy, others will take up more bounded hot topics (the privacy/surveillance session moderated by Angela Merkl could be rather interesting if Eric Schmidt et al agree to participate, could be a newsmaker). I’m told there might be a discussion that includes the IG clearinghouse stuff I’ve been pushing as NM Roadmap implementation, and something related to
CGI.br’s project on facilitating national/regional multistakeholderism. Whether there will also be a session on stuff closer to home here like the IANA transition is too early to tell, nobody from the US Dept. of Commerce is on the participant list yet, but government people often are the last to confirm. All in development and TBD.