<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear All,</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Just want to share that the Asia Pacific Regional IGF has also opened call for workshop proposals. Please refer to the below announcement for more details. Hope to receive proposals from the civil society. </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks,</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yannis<br><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="69164F6F-9AA1-4C9C-A71F-7E9119435757" height="127" width="527" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:AFF32605-FC09-4BDA-9690-F8871D338C15"></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 23px;">Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum</b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 23px;">APrIGF Taipei 2016</b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;"><b><font color="#444444" size="4">27 Jul - 29 Jul 2016</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;"><b><font color="#444444" size="4">National Taiwan University of Science and Technology</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/"><font size="4">http://2016.aprigf.asia</font></a></div><div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b><font color="#232323" size="4">Open Call for Pre-Events/Workshop Proposals</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) is one of the key regional initiatives on Internet governance which provides an open platform for multi-stakeholders to discuss and identify issues and priorities, and ultimately advances the development of Internet governance in the Asia Pacific region as well as bring forward and contribute to the wider global Internet community. </span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Hosted by the National Information Infrastructure Enterprise Promotion Association (NIIEPA), the main conference will be held from 27 - 29 July 2016 at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) with pre-events on Day 0 (26 July) and a new 2-day Asia Pacific School of Internet Governance (APSIG) before the main conference. </span></font></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><font face="ArialMT"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Our Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group(MSG) now would like to call upon the community to contribute to the program development process and suggest any pre-events or workshop proposals for 2016 with the overarching theme </span></font><b style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px;"><i>"A New Internet Era</i></b><font face="ArialMT"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><i>”</i></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">. More details on the suggested sub-themes could be found at </span></font><a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/themes/" style="font-size: 14px;">http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/themes/</a>.</div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Online Submission Form: </span></b><a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/" style="font-size: 14px;">http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/</a></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline:</b> 2 Feb 2016 (Tue), 24:00 UTC</span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><i>**R<span style="font-size: 14px;">ead the online submission guide before you submit a proposal!</span></i></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat at <a href="mailto:sec@aprigf.asia">sec@aprigf.asia</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51); margin: 0px; font-weight: normal;">If you are interested to follow any news and updates about APrIGF and discuss relevant issues, you may subscribe to the mailing list <a href="mailto:discuss@aprigf.asia">discuss@aprigf.asia</a> by sending in subscription request.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51); margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51); margin: 0px; font-weight: normal;">We also welcome any Internet-related organisation to become a sponsor. Please visit the <a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/sponsorship/">2016 website</a> or contact <a href="mailto:sec@aprigf.asia">sec@aprigf.asia</a> for more information.</div></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; border-spacing: 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; text-align: -webkit-auto; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-size: 14px;">Best Regards,</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(95, 94, 95); text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: 14px;">Secretariat of APrIGF</span></div><div><a href="http://www.aprigf.asia/" style="font-size: 14px;">http://www.aprigf.asia</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></body></html>