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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It might be worth a try… I've had some very very preliminary discussions here in Vancouver with some environmental groups (coalitions of groups) concerning this (Vancouver is a hotspot for these groups). If there was a specific focal point event that we could promote to these groups it might motivate them to begin paying attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> bestbits-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:bestbits-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Puddephatt<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 15, 2013 8:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> parminder; bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Interesting idea Parminder – how could we make it work?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Andrew Puddephatt, Director</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Global Partners & Associates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Direct: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>+44 (0)20 7549 0336<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Office</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>: +44 (0)20 7549 0350<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Mobile</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>: +44 (0)771 339 9597<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Email</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>: <a href="mailto:niamh@global-partners.co.uk"><span style='color:gray;text-decoration:none'>andrew@global-partners.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Address</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>: Development House, 56-64 Leonard St, London EC2A 4LT, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'><a href="http://www.global-partners.co.uk">www.global-partners.co.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:bestbits-request@lists.igcaucus.org">bestbits-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a> [<a href="mailto:bestbits-request@lists.igcaucus.org">mailto:bestbits-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>parminder<br><b>Sent:</b> 15 March 2013 09:01<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org">bestbits@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [bestbits] Best Bits meeting plans for the 2013 IGF<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><br><br></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I know I am getting increasingly and perhaps unsustainable ambitious, but maybe we can hold an 'Internet social forum' and then proceed to more focussed strategising in the bestbits meeting. <br><br>I think a core/ real civil society in the Internet area needs to be recovered from the unclear ambiguous gooey mass that what goes for the IG civil society has increasingly become....<br><br>Perhaps just being too radical (and a bit modernist in a highly post modernist Internet world), which is not a bad thing to do once in a while :)<br><br>parminder </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>On Friday 15 March 2013 02:17 PM, parminder wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><br>On Friday 15 March 2013 02:02 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Michael Gurstein <a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com"><gurstein@gmail.com></a> wrote: <br><snip> <br>Agreed. <br><br>Furthermore, it is important to get civil society actors from outside <br>the Internet governance community more involved. Maybe, in addition to <br>addressing these matters at the Best Bits meeting in Bali, we need to <br>think about organizing a pre-event in the spirit of Best Bits (but <br>maybe with a different name corresponding to a less technology-centered <br>focus) to an international event where the chances are optimal for <br>effectively introducing the family of issues that you're thinking about <br>into the mainstream of discourse of international policy shaping. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><br>Something in the spirit of the 'world we want' and then proceed to discussing the 'web we want' for the 'world we want'. <br><br>We can invite participation from non IG global and sub global civil society bodies, most of whom do now have an interest to see how IG connects to their work (and most now believe that it does in some basic though largely unclear ways) . Maybe many of them want to come and join in, but there are no good enough and appropriate docking points made available to them, in a manner that look at things in a manner that they traditionally look at. <br><br>Such actors coming for such an event where they will get introduced to the world of IG can then also lead to a much needed more diverse participation in the IGF... <br><br><br>.. parminder <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I think that we would be very remiss not to spend some time reviewing <br>these "IS" issues and strategizing on how to move these forward <br>alongside and particularly as part of the increasingly visible and <br>significant IG processes -- including within the IGF but also toward <br>WSIS +10 and beyond. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB>+1 <br><br>Greetings, <br>Norbert <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>