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Thanks everyone for your invaluable inputs on the proposal. Here is
a quick update, following discussions with various of you offlist.<br>
<br>
First, it looks like we won't be able to do Singapore after all.
The hotel reported to me yesterday that they are fully booked for
the weekend prior to the IIC conference, and that for the
alternative dates after the conference we are on standby.<br>
<br>
Several of you have voiced that you would prefer to do the event in
conjunction with the IGF in Azerbaijan instead. Although it has its
downsides, the big benefit is that we would have to support fewer
participants' travel costs. This is important because the budget
that we have sketched out is significantly too high to be supported
by any of our prospective funders (and indeed at this stage, it
looks like only one of them, Google, will be able to offer support).<br>
<br>
On this basis, I have gone ahead and begun enquiries with the hotels
in Baku about hosting the event over the weekend prior to the IGF.
The next thing to determine is who will be in Baku, and who won't.
Amongst those who won't, we need to receive and decide upon their
applications for travel support <b>within a week</b>. Sorry for
the short deadline!<br>
<br>
So without further ado, I have thrown up a document in Google Docs
(I would have stuck with Etherpad, except that it doesn't support
tables yet) with a table of the groups who were listed in the
proposal as prospective invitees. It is at <a
href="http://bit.ly/SqnzeS"> http://bit.ly/SqnzeS</a>
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</style><b>Your help is needed to complete this table</b>. Please:<br>
<ul>
<li>If you are on the list (which you should be!) please complete
the entry for your organisation by:</li>
<ul>
<li>Indicating whether you plan to attend, either in person or
remotely.</li>
<li>If you <i>really</i> can't make your own way to the meeting
without assistance, please specify what kind of assistance you
are seeking (for example full or partial flight cost, hotel
for two nights or for the whole week, etc). If you can
estimate a US dollar value, all the better.</li>
<li>Indicating how you would like to participate in the draft
programme - would you like to speak at or to moderate a
session? Would you like to be part of a working group that
prepares "zero draft" text for discussion on day 2, or do you
want to nominate someone else to do so? (Andrew or I may
reach out to some of you individually about this.)<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Please check the other suggested representatives from each
group - there are a few that need adding, those I've listed
mightn't be the most appropriate, and there are a few that I
haven't completed. In general, one representative per
organisation should be enough.<br>
</li>
<li>If you know any of those people, and the "invited" column
isn't already completed, please contact them to ask if they are
interested in attending the meeting. I'm attaching a PDF
document excerpted from the proposal that can accompany the
invitation. Then add the date when you contacted them to the
"invited" column, so that we know they have been informed.</li>
</ul>
Once again, the <b>deadline to complete the table is by next week</b>
- 24 August 2012. Whilst the details are yet to be confirmed (for
example how many delegates could be funded and which hotel will be
used as the venue), we need to have an idea of the prospective
participants first.<br>
<br>
Thanks again, and please let me know of any queries or concerns with
these revised plans.<br>
<br>
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