<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Friends and colleagues,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are very pleased to nominate Mr. Asad Baig, Executive Director, Media Matters for Democracy from Pakistan to be one of the speaker. We have talked to him and he is willing to take up this important responsibility. His brief profile is appended below:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">———</div><div class="">Asad Baig</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:asad@mediamatters.pk" class="">asad@mediamatters.pk</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="-apple-system-font" class="">Asad Baig is the founder and Executive Director of Media Matters for Democracy, a Pakistan based non profit working to promote and protect freedom of expression in the country as a key component of democratic development. A technologist by education, he switched to journalism early in his career and has since been interested in bringing the two together. His organisation is working extensively on bringing together journalism and technology and is thus involved in policy discussions on internet governance and regulation from a rights based perspective. He is also working with his team to improve and facilitate access of technology to women and marginalised groups in Pakistan and is currently involved in the process of developing a technological solution for countering gender based abuse online. Previously associated with Open Society Foundations Pakistan, he lobbied to add open data and equal access to the foundation’s media program strategy and was instrumental in the creation of various local coalition working on issues ranging from digital rights to impunity in journalists’ murders. </font><span class="" style="font-family: -apple-system-font;">In addition to various researches on media content and economy in Pakistan, he has also published researches on the status of freedom of expression online and state of religious expression in cyberspace. He is currently a part of the Mutistakeholder Advisory Group for Pakistan National IGF. </span></div><div class=""><div class="">———</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Over to you for your kind considerations. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes and regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Shahzad</div><div class=""><font face="-apple-system-font" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="">
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</pre></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sheetal Kumar</b> <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:sheetal@gp-digital.org" class="">sheetal@gp-digital.org</a>></span><br class="">Date: 4 November 2016 at 14:24<br class="">Subject: Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November<br class="">To: <a href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net" class="">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a><br class="">Cc: Poncelet Ileleji <a href="mailto:pileleji@ymca.gm" class="">pileleji@ymca.gm</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-im">Dear all,<br class=""></span></span><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-im"><br class="">If you would like to <span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-m_1258719832980809361gmail-m_5843015862698410567gmail-il">nominate</span> anyone (including yourself) as an opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's <span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-m_1258719832980809361gmail-m_5843015862698410567gmail-il">IGF in Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09)</span>, please send Poncelet (cc'd) and I or the list your <span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-m_1258719832980809361gmail-m_5843015862698410567gmail-il">nomination</span> with a short statement of the reason for the<span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-m_1258719832980809361gmail-m_5843015862698410567gmail-il"> nomination</span>, and whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to be<span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-m_1258719832980809361gmail-m_5843015862698410567gmail-il"> nominated</span>. </span></span><br class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-im"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-im"><br class="">The <span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-m_1258719832980809361gmail-m_5843015862698410567gmail-il">IGF</span>
the Secretariat has asked for names by <span style="" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><b class="">COB Thursday 10 November</b>,</span></span> - therefore we ask that you send
your</span><span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-m_1258719832980809361gmail-m_5843015862698410567gmail-il"> nominations</span> by<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)" class=""><span style="" class=""> <span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)" class=""><u class=""><b class="">COB 07 November</b></u></span>. </span></span></span><br class=""><br class="">Any <span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-m_1258719832980809361gmail-m_5843015862698410567gmail-il">nominations</span>
given will be briefly discussed among the civil society coordination
group (which contains reps of all the main civil society networks in
Internet governance, including us). <br class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-im">Thanks! Any questions let us know,<br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><span class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail-m_8352939403521395129gmail-im"><br class=""></span></span></div><div class="">Best,<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail-m_6529448930830502073gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#073763" class=""><b class="">Sheetal Kumar</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#073763" class="">Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL</font><div class=""><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666" class="">Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL</font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666" class="">T: +44 (0)20<font color="#666666" class=""> 3 818 3258</font> 0337</font><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666" class="">| M: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%297739569514" value="+447739569514" target="_blank" class="">+44 (0)7739569514</a> | </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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