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<font size="+1">Yes... agree. Looks good. And APC's offer to help
organise w<font size="+1">orking with Donny and with our member<font
size="+1">s and partners in Indonesia still stands.<br>
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<font size="+1">Anriette<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/03/2013 09:25, parminder wrote:<br>
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Thanks Jeremy and Andrew,
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This looks like a very well done and purposeful agenda/ work plan
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parminder
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Subject: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF
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From: "Jeremy Malcolm" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org"><jeremy@ciroap.org></a>
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Date: Thu, March 14, 2013 12:07 am
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To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org">bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org</a>
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Hello all,
<br>
<br>
This is to follow on from Andrew's summary of the informal Best
Bits
<br>
meeting in Paris. If you can't find it, it is available in the
web
<br>
archives of this list at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/arc/bestbits">http://lists.igcaucus.org/arc/bestbits</a>.
<br>
(Thanks also to Deborah for forwarding the notice about the short
<br>
deadline for IGF workshop proposals.)
<br>
<br>
On the basis of suggestions and offers made so far, here is what
we are
<br>
proposing for Best Bits in 2013. It follows from the discussions
in
<br>
Paris, but is just a rough outline and it is still open for your
comments:
<br>
<br>
* A two-day pre-IGF Best Bits meeting on the weekend of 19-20
October
<br>
in Bali, with an overall theme around a positive agenda for
Internet
<br>
governance, which (like last time) will split into two very
<br>
practical agenda items, one of them substantive ("what we
want"),
<br>
and the other procedural ("how we can get it"):
<br>
o Identifying common civil society strategies for advancing
a
<br>
human rights Internet. This can incorporate related
initiatives
<br>
such as the IGF MAG's newly-established Internet
principles
<br>
working group, and the "Web We Want" initiative that a
number of
<br>
those from this list are involved with.
<br>
o A positive agenda for the evolution of Internet governance
<br>
arrangements. This will tie in with the work of the CSTD
<br>
Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation. The output of this
would
<br>
be a common civil society position on an enhanced
cooperation
<br>
mechanism or process (perhaps IGF-based) that we could
support.
<br>
* Two public IGF workshops that would present each of the two
agenda
<br>
items above to a wider audience, and would include
participation by
<br>
representatives of the other stakeholder groups. Global
Partners is
<br>
working on text for the workshop proposals, and will post them
for
<br>
comment when ready.
<br>
<br>
Meanwhile I am fundraising now to get some more travel funds for
those
<br>
who will need it, and indeed to broaden the funding base compared
to
<br>
last time. The funds will also be used for a permanent website,
<br>
including a rather sophisticated event calendar, which will begin
as a
<br>
rather less sophisticated event calendar, and grow features
progressively.
<br>
<br>
If you have any comments on the above outline please share them.
Thanks!
<br>
<br>
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anriette esterhuysen <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anriette@apc.org">anriette@apc.org</a>
executive director, association for progressive communications
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.apc.org">www.apc.org</a>
po box 29755, melville 2109
south africa
tel/fax +27 11 726 1692</pre>
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