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<!--EndFragment--></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6d6d6d" face="Calibri" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><b><!--EndFragment--></b></font><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "></p></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:08<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org">bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org</a>> Bits" <<a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org">bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Best Bits press conference, Thursday at 2pm<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>The Best Bits press conference will be held at 2pm on Thursday 8 November in the press room. All of you are welcome to attend. If you would like to be available for Q&A, please reply to the group so that we can sort that out ahead of time.</div><div><br></div><div>The conference will be short (we will try to keep to 10 minutes). I suggest the following agenda:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Explain in 30 seconds our motivation for coming together at Best Bits.</div><div>2. Present our WCIT statement (Andrew, would it be possible for you to print a few copies?).</div><div>3. Present our single sentence about the IGF-level statement on Internet governance.</div><div>4. Possibly - mention our objection to the handling of the ICT Watch censorship postcards.</div><div><br></div><div>Item 4 above is up for discussion - do we, as a group, feel that censorship at the IGF is important enough to raise with the press?</div><div><br></div><div>There are no official daily press conferences planned, therefore we will have to do our own work to attract journalists to attend. I am in touch with the European Union's press officer about this, but I could use some more help please. If any of you
have press contacts, please inform them of our plans.</div><div><br></div><div>We will also need a press release at the event, that any journos who attend can use as boilerplate for their report - does someone want to work on this? If not I will do so. We will have to choose one of the above items to focus on in the press release,
as journalists won't report on more than one thing per press conference.</div><div><br></div><div>If you plan to be there, whether or not you will be on the panel, please reply to me off list. Thanks!</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">-- </span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="font-size: 9pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b>Dr Jeremy Malcolm<br>
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