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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bravo on this initiative Jeremy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Malcolm<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 17, 2012 10:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [governance] Pre-announcement of "Best Bits", 3-4 November, Baku, Azerbaijan<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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 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 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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Dr Jeremy Malcolm<br>Senior Policy Officer<br>Consumers International | the global campaigning voice for consumers</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><br>Office for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East<br>Lot 5-1 Wisma WIM, 7 Jalan Abang Haji Openg, TTDI, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br>Tel: +60 3 7726 1599<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Your rights, our mission – download CI's Strategy 2015:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> <a href="http://consint.info/RightsMission">http://consint.info/RightsMission</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>@Consumers_Int | <a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org">www.consumersinternational.org</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/consumersinternational">www.facebook.com/consumersinternational</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#999999'>Read our <a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org/email-confidentiality" target="_blank">email confidentiality notice</a>. Don't print this email unless necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>