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<p class=""><span class="">Dear All, </span></p><p class=""><span class="">We are very happy to announce that we are planning to initiate <b>Pakistan Country Internet Governance Forum</b> this year. We hope to organize first yearly event in September 2016. </span></p><p class=""><span class="">Several civil society organizations including Media Matters for Democracy, Bytes for All, Pakistan and Internet Policy Observatory of Pakistan (IPOP) and other relevant stakeholders are collaborating for this purpose. PakIGF is going to be a collaborative multi-stakeholder effort. While we already have ICANN onboard, we are reaching out to several international organizations, local universities, government authorities and other institutions seeking collaborations and support to organize Pakistan Country IGF. A Multi-stakehodler Advisory Group (MAG) will be announced by the end of March 2016. The event website will soon be live on <a href="http://www.pakigf.pk/"><span class="">www.pakigf.pk</span></a>.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">We will be keeping everyone in the loop and welcome ideas and feedback from other organisations who have arranged national IGFs in other countries to make sure that we can arrange an event that successfully enriches the internet governance policy debates in Pakistan.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">With Regards,</span></p><p class=""><span class=""><b>Sadaf Khan</b></span></p><p class=""><span class=""><b>Director Programs</b></span></p><p class="">
</p><p class=""><span class=""><b>Media Matters for Democracy </b></span></p><p class=""><span class=""><a href="http://mediamatters.pk">mediamatters.pk</a> | <a href="http://mediamatterspakistan.org">mediamatterspakistan.org</a>|@mmfd_pak</span></p></div></div>