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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hi All<br>
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I see that 15th is the last date for final workshop proposals and 30th
for speakers. IGC has two workshop proposals and we will need to work
on this. Best to get working groups made for each. This is how it
worked the last time. <br>
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Meanwhile there is a proposal in the program paper that some workshops
that are sufficiently representative will be given longer time period -
3 hours, with a view of possibly seeking some useful convergences of
views. The precise language of the program paper is<br>
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face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">"Merged
workshops will be given the opportunity to bring their findings to
the attention of the related main session. If sufficiently
representative, merged workshops will be given three hour slots with
the aim of providing an opportunity to identify a range of best
practices."<br>
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face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I wonder if we can try and
propose merger of our network neutrality workshop with another one on
the same subject, and apply for a 3 hour slot. We can point to the fact
that in at least one country (Norway) all stakeholders have been able
to agree to set of NN principles, and it is worth making such efforts
at the global level. At the least we can try to agree to some basic
set of principles that flow flow from the defining characteristics of
'openness' and 'neutrality' of the Internet. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">In order to give our best to
leverage the new format opened up, perhaps as a back up (since we have
no proposed workshop on this subject) we can seek a 3 hour workshop on
developing principles and best practices in IG in the area of
disability rights - this would perhaps also complement the current work
in WIPO on copyright exception for the disabled. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">On a different note, we should
also put in a request for a booth in the IGF village for the IGC, last
date fro which is 30th June. We took one in Hyderabad, but it was not
advertised among members and did not get used. Such a booth is a good
meeting point for the caucus <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">parminder <br>
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