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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The clear merge here is with workshop proposal 184 on the same subject (net neutrality) from Diplo Foundation (Vladimir Radunovic).<BR>
Ginger, given your associations there, can you approach them and see if they are willing to merge? WE need to submit by June 15 so I guess this is fairly urgent.<BR>
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On 7/06/09 7:22 PM, "Parminder" <parminder@itforchange.net> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">"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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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">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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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">parminder <BR>
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