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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/10/13 23:32, Evan Greer wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Jeremy Malcolm <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<blockquote type="cite">Obvious challenges: the fact that civil
society organising structures have crumbled since then, the
lack of funding, the short time scale to organise...
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Could FFTF/IDL join us in Bali, in person or remotely? It is
really important for the rest of us to connect with your
community, I feel.<span class="HOEnZb"></span></blockquote>
I don't think that we can send someone to Bali but we'd be happy
to join a session remotely or talk ideas / strategy anytime. Is
there a central location where we can get info or can someone
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Firstly sorry for the typos in my original reply which was sent by
phone. Since you're on the main Best Bits mailing list that's
already the main central location for info, though feel free also to
contact the interim steering committee at any time
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:steering@lists.bestbits.net">steering@lists.bestbits.net</a>), and during 19-20 October we will be
streaming our Bali meeting at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bestbits.net/streaming/">http://bestbits.net/streaming/</a> (though
I still have to work out a way to authenticate viewers and/or to
close the stream during sensitive discussions).<br>
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Though some feedback has been given already, we should continue to
discuss (here and in Bali) the possibility of a civil society side
event as more details of the Brazil event come out. I am a firm
believer in the idea that the stakeholder groups can and should hold
their own meetings and that this should be seen as complementary to
the official multi-stakeholder proceedings, rather than competing
with or subverting them. So I wouldn't like to rule out at the
least a Best Bits side event, or perhaps (which is closer to what
you had in mind) a broader one that could include end-user
communities. Let's see how things come together.<br>
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