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This is a "save the date" notice for a gathering on Internet
governance and Internet rights in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 3-4
ahead of the global IGF, titled "Best Bits". This will be an
advocacy-focused event designed for sharing knowledge and
collaborating on tangible outputs. It arose from discussions of a
diverse group of North and South based experts held at the
Asia-Pacific Regional IGF.<br>
<br>
You can download a short document which gives more details about the
motivation for the event, the programme, and the expected outputs
from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://igf-online.net/bestbits.pdf">http://igf-online.net/bestbits.pdf</a>.
For more information, you are also invited to join the "Best Bits"
mailing list at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/bestbits">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/bestbits</a>.
Specific details such as the venue will be confirmed later.<br>
<br>
The importance of this meeting for the IGC is that it is meant
partly as a bridge between our IGF/WSIS world and the US tech policy
world, leading to better informed, more effective, and more
complementary and consistent advocacy outcomes - though there is no
intention to subsume or supersede any existing work. The other
purpose is to produce specific outputs, including the long-planned
civil society statement of principles for the IGF, and a slightly
different one to WCIT.<br>
<br>
If you plan to attend, please let me know off-list - this is just
for planning purposes, as a formal registration form will come
later.<br>
<br>
If you would require any assistance with travel expenses, a very
limited fund may be available courtesy of Google to assist certain
individuals with specific skillsets who will contribute to the
meeting by way of moderating, presenting, helping to prepare
briefing documents, or working on the zero-draft texts that are to
be discussed and finalised at the meeting. Those seeking support
must let me know strictly within 1 week, ie. by 24 August 2012 at
the latest.<br>
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<p style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><b>Dr Jeremy Malcolm<br>
Senior Policy Officer<br>
Consumers International | the global campaigning voice for
consumers</b><br>
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