The meeting, framed as a "roundtable discussion" by The Wall Street Journal, is expected to cover a broad range of emerging tech topics, from 5G to AI to quantum computing, which "can help ensure U.S. leadership in industries of the future," according to a White House email.
The field team packaged findings for feedback, often without leaving the community, in a series of steps that gradually became standardised: computational analysis; consultative interpretation, often through focus groups and small meetings; framing emerging themes to share; development and testing of numeric and narrative formats; and then dissemination.
Only in the most extreme cases of fabrication and lying did the staged meeting break frame and become a genuine occasion of accountability, where investors demanded greater transparency, further meetings and at the extreme, divested shares.
The meeting was framed as a response to Russia's failure to meet the terms of the cease-fire agreement that Mr. Sarkozy had negotiated between Moscow and Tbilisi.
The chief sat in a palm thatch meeting house framed by photos of an African statue, Dutch royalty and the Surinamese president, Jules Albert Wijdenbosch.
In the end, countries will decide for themselves what they are going to do, but these meetings help frame their thinking, just as the MDGs helped to focus the world's attention on reducing absolute poverty and improving access to key services.
That meeting has framed our relationship: the chipper business rep and the fretting journalist.
Alec's response, Sullivan went on to explain at the meeting, is to frame and then lobby for model legislation in state assemblies across the country.
Rather, the speech, coming from a leader who is overseeing a huge government intervention in the financial markets, was an attempt to put him front and center in advance of the summit meeting, and to frame the debate on his terms.
But as the raucous meetings in the summer of 2009 demonstrated, the tone of the meetings tends to frame the terms of the debate.
