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<p>I am cutting and pasting here from an off-list email summarising
the opportunities that still exist for you to participate in Best
Bits, since I thought that information might be useful to others
too.<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>To distribute ownership of the event more widely, the
moderators of each session are now responsible for finding
volunteers to contribute to that session (as panelists,
discussants, etc, as they choose). So please take a look at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bestbits.igf-online.net/agenda/">http://bestbits.igf-online.net/agenda/</a>
and decide which session/s you'd like to contribute to. I can
then put you in touch with the moderator, or you can contact
them directly.</li>
<li>Please upload any documents that you'd like the other
participants to use as resources to the page <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bestbits.igf-online.net/background-papers/">http://bestbits.igf-online.net/background-papers/</a>,
by this Friday. Instructions on how to do so are there. Andrew
Puddephatt will be compiling them together into a briefing pack,
and writing an introductory paper. If you have difficulty
uploading, let me know.<br>
</li>
<li>As for the "zero draft" output documents, these have been
slower to come together than anticipated, however we
deliberately have several hours to work on them during the event
itself. As things stand we do not have draft text, so by all
means, please post your ideas to the list.</li>
<ul>
<li>For the ITU statement, William Drake is facilitating it and
is proposing a text focusing on substantive issues, which will
be submitted to the ITU public comment process on 3 November.<br>
</li>
<li>For the Internet governance principles, Wolfgang
Kleinwächter's current proposal is that we use the existing
text that APC and others worked on for the Council of Europe,
which is this one: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.apc.org/en/node/11199">http://www.apc.org/en/node/11199</a>.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
In addition:<br>
<ul>
<li>If you have been offered funding for your hotel stay during
Best Bits, please reply to confirm whether you will be needing
this, and whether you will be staying at the Days Hotel (in
which case we can pay the hotel directly for those nights) or
elsewhere.</li>
<li>If you will be attending Best Bits in person but have not yet
re-confirmed your registration by completing the form at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.igf-online.net/registration/">http://bestbits.igf-online.net/registration/</a>, please take one
minute now do do that.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
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<p style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><b>Dr Jeremy Malcolm<br>
Senior Policy Officer<br>
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