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text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#444444" size="4" class="">27 Jul - 29 Jul 2016</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#444444" size="4" class="">NTUH International Convention Center</font></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;" class=""><a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/" class=""><font size="4" class="">http://2016.aprigf.asia</font></a></div><div class=""><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#232323" size="4" class="">Extended Workshop Proposal Deadline </font></b></div><div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Despite receiving many good workshop proposals, the MSG has decided to further extend the submission deadline to allow more interested members from the community to develop their proposals. (Submitted proposals can be viewed </span></font><a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/submit/" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">here</a>.<font face="ArialMT" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">)</span></font></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><font face="ArialMT" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><font face="ArialMT" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Overarching Theme:</b></span></font></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><font face="ArialMT" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span></font><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class="">"A New Internet Era - Merging Physical Space with Cyberspace</i></b><font face="ArialMT" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">”</i></b><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">. More details on the suggested sub-themes could be found at </span></font><a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/themes/" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/themes/</a>.</div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Online Submission Form: </span></b><a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">http://2016.aprigf.asia/program/</a></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline:</b><strike class=""> 2 Feb 2016 (Tue), 24:00 UTC </strike><font color="#ff2600" class="">16 Feb 2016 (Tue), 24:00 UTC</font></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><i class="">**R<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">ead the online submission guide before you submit a proposal!</span></i></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><font color="#232323" size="4" class="">Fellowship Application Now Available! </font></b></span></div><div class=""><font face="ArialMT" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">To encourage participation and enhance the diversity and multi-stakeholder concept of APrIGF, fellowship opportunity is available for the APrIGF 2016 registrants. For more details of the application guideline and evaluation criteria, please go to </span></font><a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/fellowship/" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">http://2016.aprigf.asia/fellowship/</a>.</div><div style="widows: 1;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Fellowship Application Deadline: </b><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">29 Feb 2016, 24:00 UTC</font></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">If you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact the secretariat at <a href="mailto:sec@aprigf.asia" class="">sec@aprigf.asia</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51); margin: 0px; font-weight: normal;" class="">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" class="">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;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51); margin: 0px; font-weight: normal;" class="">We also welcome any Internet-related organisation to become a sponsor. Please visit the <a href="http://2016.aprigf.asia/sponsorship/" class="">2016 website</a> or contact <a href="mailto:sec@aprigf.asia" class="">sec@aprigf.asia</a> for more information.</div></b></div><div style="font-family: ArialMT; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""><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;" class=""><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;" class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-size: 14px;">Best Regards,</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(95, 94, 95); text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: 14px;" class="">Secretariat of APrIGF</span></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.aprigf.asia/" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">http://www.aprigf.asia</a></div><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>