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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi All!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Monday Nov. 12’s IGF opening day, with likely long security and registration lines, may be hectic from the start, and many people will be ducking in and out of IGF during the week due to the other
events in Paris. Angela Merkel and many other heads of state will be in town for the Peace Forum. Expect busy traffic and bustling security. It is unfortunate that there is no official Day Zero, just a three-day IGF and so many outside distractions in Paris
during IGF 2018 due to the Peace Forum and the GovTech Summit. I hope all will go well for everyone!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Does anyone on the list happen to know if most of the MAG or the civil society coordination people are staying in one particular hotel or, if they are having preliminary planning meetings, where
and when those might be? In other words, how can we happen to share the same space, hang out informally, share a greeting or even wave hello to some other IGF attendees on the weekend?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I will have a team from
<a href="http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/default.xhtml">Imagining the Internet</a> arriving very early on Saturday (could not find an affordable Paris flight for our group of 10 that would arrive Sunday) and we’re hoping to get to connect with people on
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Best regards,<br>
Janna Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><bestbits-request@lists.bestbits.net> on behalf of Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna75@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Nnenna Nwakanma <nnenna75@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at 8:27 AM<br>
<b>Cc: </b>"<bestbits@lists.bestbits.net>" <bestbits@lists.bestbits.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [bestbits] CS meeting at IGF Paris?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paris is really tight. Very tight. I am reaching out to a few organisations for a Tuesday lunch just by UNESCO.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Its a small gathering with the President and CEO of the Web Foundation - Adrian Lovett.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Talk will mostly be around the Principles for the Contract for the Web..which Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be launching Monday next week.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone wants to join, please ping me on <a href="mailto:nnenna.nwakanma@webfoundation.org">
nnenna.nwakanma@webfoundation.org</a> with [Paris Lunch on Tuesday] as header.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nnenna<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:36 AM Ginger Paque <<a href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com">gpaque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Sheetal. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could you please add me to the group? I'm very interested, and arrive Sunday morning. Thank you.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Ginger<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 05:51, Sheetal Kumar <<a href="mailto:sheetal@gp-digital.org" target="_blank">sheetal@gp-digital.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As far as I know, there isn't a joint civil society/'Bestbits' meeting this year. However, a few of us are gathering on the Sunday afternoon (time & location TBC) to discuss inputs into the
<a href="http://www.un.org/en/digital-cooperation-panel/" target="_blank">High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation
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<p class="MsoNormal">I had floated focusing the meeting on the HLPDC with the groups that organise the civil society coordination meeting a while back and those interested and following the panel are getting together informally to discuss our inputs into the
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<p class="MsoNormal">If that's of interest to anyone please let me know as soon as you can as I'll confirm the room sometime this week.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 19:06, Ginger Paque <<a href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com" target="_blank">gpaque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are there plans for a BB or CS meeting at the IGF in Paris? I know it's difficult with no day zero and a compressed schedule, but I'm hoping we get together. I haven't seen anything, so please repeat the info if I missed it. Hoping to see
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