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For those travelling to Baku for Best Bits and the IGF, here are
some final important notes.<br>
<br>
<b>Ground transport</b><br>
<br>
The IGF host country is arranging ground transport for those who
have emailed their full itineraries. You should have received an
email about this from them. If you didn't, you can try contacting
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:participant@igf2012.az">participant@igf2012.az</a> about this. Otherwise, if you are booked to
stay at the Days Hotel, they also offer a shuttle and you can email
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nurana.salahova@dayshotelbaku.az">nurana.salahova@dayshotelbaku.az</a> to arrange your pickup.<br>
<br>
<b>Reimbursements</b><br>
<br>
If you are being reimbursed in cash for a flight or hotel, Joe Power
from Global Partners has already contacted you to explain how this
will happen, or will do so soon. We are already slightly over
budget for Best Bits, so please understand that we have no room to
budge on the costs that we may have agreed to reimburse you. If you
have enquiries, please contact Joe (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Joe@global-partners.co.uk">Joe@global-partners.co.uk</a>) or
myself.<br>
<br>
<b>Hotel</b><br>
<br>
If you are staying at the Days Hotel and have been offered support
for your accommodation, then payment for the number of nights that
we have agreed with you will be made direct to the hotel, thereby
reducing the balance of your bill by two or three nights worth. You
will be solely responsible for paying the balance.<br>
<br>
Since some of your reservations were secured with a Consumers
International credit card, it is important - and I can't stress that
enough - that you pay the balance of the hotel bill yourself,
otherwise Consumers International will incur your room charges! In
the unlikely event of a dispute over your room bill, please contact
me immediately on +60 12 282 5895.<br>
<br>
<b>Distribution of papers</b><br>
<br>
We will not be distributing hard copies of the background papers
that were contributed for Best Bits and are collected at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.igf-online.net/background-papers/">http://bestbits.igf-online.net/background-papers/</a>. You are
encouraged to read them all online. We may, however, distribute a
one-page framing document which references these papers.<br>
<br>
If you would like everyone to have a hard copy of your paper, then
please bring your own 50 hard copies to Baku to distribute. We will
also be happy to hand them out for you, if you give them to us in
advance (for example, Andrew and myself will be at breakfast at the
Days Hotel from 8am on Saturday).<br>
<br>
<b>Participant list</b><br>
<br>
We have had to cap the number of attendees at 50, due to the
above-mentioned budget constraints. If anyone of you listed as a
participant at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.igf-online.net/participants/">http://bestbits.igf-online.net/participants/</a> no
longer plans to attend in person on both days, please let me know so
that I can tell one of those who is waiting in reserve. Currently
we have three on the waiting list.<br>
<br>
Thanks, and please let me know if you have any other last-minute
queries or concerns.<br>
<br>
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