<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Dear Yannis, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Thank you so much for your support.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Members for all three initiating organisations will be participating in the APrIGF in July [and hopefully leading some sessions]. We aim to ensure that discussions from the APrIGF can add and feed into our own discussions in September. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">I will also separately write to you as we chalk out our plans further to seek advice and feedback from your own experience with organising the regional IGFs. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Sadaf </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Yannis Li <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yannis@registry.asia" target="_blank">yannis@registry.asia</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Congratulations Sadaf.<br>
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Great to have one more local initiatives running in the Asia region. Would hope to have that discussion also feedback to the Asia Pacific Regional IGF too.<br>
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Happy to contribute any experience that we can lend from the APrIGF as well as on the youth engagement part.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
Yannis<br>
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On 21 Feb 2016, at 4:52 AM, Mishi Choudhary <<a href="mailto:mishi@softwarefreedom.org">mishi@softwarefreedom.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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Congratulations! Please let us know how can we help.<br>
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P.S. You are way ahead of us in your neighborhood who have a MAG but no<br>
Indian IGF.<br>
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On 02/19/2016 06:23 AM, Lea Kaspar wrote:<br>
> Dear Sadaf,<br>
><br>
> Congrats for this initiative and thank you for sharing. It's great to<br>
> see further proliferation of national IGFs across the world. I'm<br>
> assuming this is on the radar of the IGF Secretariat? It's important for<br>
> these initiatives to feed back into the global IGF and there are a<br>
> number of IGF MAG members have been actively involved in making this<br>
> link more relevant and robust. My personal experience in national IGFs<br>
> is limited to the UK example, but I know there are others on the MAG who<br>
> would be more than happy to provide guidance and advice. Let me know if<br>
> you would like me to forward this info to the MAG list.<br>
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> Best and good luck!<br>
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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Sadaf Khan <<a href="mailto:sadaf.baig03@gmail.com">sadaf.baig03@gmail.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:sadaf.baig03@gmail.com">sadaf.baig03@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Dear All,<br>
><br>
> We are very happy to announce that we are planning to initiate<br>
> *Pakistan Country Internet Governance Forum* this year. We hope to<br>
> organize first yearly event in September 2016.<br>
><br>
> Several civil society organizations including Media Matters for<br>
> Democracy, Bytes for All, Pakistan and Internet Policy Observatory<br>
> of Pakistan (IPOP) and other relevant stakeholders are collaborating<br>
> for this purpose. PakIGF is going to be a collaborative<br>
> multi-stakeholder effort. While we already have ICANN onboard, we<br>
> are reaching out to several international organizations, local<br>
> universities, government authorities and other institutions seeking<br>
> collaborations and support to organize Pakistan Country IGF. A<br>
> Multi-stakehodler Advisory Group (MAG) will be announced by the end<br>
> of March 2016. The event website will soon be live on <a href="http://www.pakigf.pk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.pakigf.pk</a><br>
> <<a href="http://www.pakigf.pk/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.pakigf.pk/</a>>.<br>
><br>
> We will be keeping everyone in the loop and welcome ideas and<br>
> feedback from other organisations who have arranged national IGFs in<br>
> other countries to make sure that we can arrange an event that<br>
> successfully enriches the internet governance policy debates in<br>
> Pakistan.<br>
><br>
> With Regards,<br>
><br>
> *Sadaf Khan*<br>
><br>
> *Director Programs*<br>
><br>
> *Media Matters for Democracy *<br>
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