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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday 10 September 2015 03:36 PM,
      Ang Peng Hwa (Prof) wrote:<br>
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        <div>Hi Parminder.</div>
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        <div>By response, I meant a big-picture response as opposed to
          replies to the specific questions, which I am not able to
          answer them as I was not involved in the decisions.</div>
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        <div>My big picture response is based on my previous experience
          with you re the first few APrIGFs.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>I note that APC has responded since your email and you have
          called it exemplary. I take it that you are satisfied.</div>
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    <br>
    Dear Peng Hwa, my degree of satisfaction or otherwise with regard to
    my transparency questions is clearly indicated in my email that you
    refer to... Best, parmidner <br>
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          <div>Regards, </div>
          <div>Peng Hwa</div>
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          <span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Parminder Singh
          <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:parminder@ITforChange.net">parminder@ITforChange.net</a>><br>
          <span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, 9
          September 2015 3:04 pm<br>
          <span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Ang Peng Hwa <<a
            moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tphang@ntu.edu.sg">tphang@ntu.edu.sg</a>>,
          "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>"
          <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>>,

          BestBitsList <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>>,
          Anja Kovacs <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:anja@internetdemocracy.in">anja@internetdemocracy.in</a>><br>
          <span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re:
          [governance] [bestbits] Taking place next week: Asian Regional
          Consultation on the WSIS+10 Review - remote participation
          available<br>
        </div>
        <div><br>
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        <div>
          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">On Monday 07 September
            2015 09:21 PM, Ang Peng Hwa (Prof) wrote:<br>
            <blockquote cite="mid:D213B395.504C0%25tphang@ntu.edu.sg"
              type="cite">
              <div>
                <div>Hi Parminder.</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>I wanted to understand the picture better before
                  writing a response. As I have gone and returned from
                  the Consultation at Pattaya, I feel more able to
                  respond.</div>
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            <br>
            Dear Peng Hwa,<br>
            <br>
            I read your email several times, because you call it a
            response to my email, but I still could not see the
            response. As you will see from the trailing emails, I
            deliberately sent two different emails raising two sets of
            issues - one set more important, primary, and substantively
            clear and precise, and the other kind of subsidiary,
            although also quite important. I requested that the first
            set be addressed separately so that there is no loss of
            focus from the primary set of the most important and, to
            repeat, precise and clear issues of transparency and
            accountability. I repeat them;<br>
            <br>
            <span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION">(1) who is funding this
              'consultation'<br>
              <br>
              (2) on what criteria participants were determined, and
              invitations sent, and by whom - were all concerned people
              invited (that, in my view, would be a consultation)<br>
              <br>
              (3) On what criteria funding for participation was
              provided, and by whom, and who decided it..</span><br>
            <br>
            (Let me also stress the issue of it being a 'consultation'
            and an 'Asia Pacific consultation' at that which greatly
            increases the salience of the above points.)<br>
            <br>
            The only response I can understand to this request is either
            to agree that these questions of transparency and
            accountability are important, and add your voice to them, or
            disagree and hold them to be not important or necessary. I
            really am not able to see from your email which of the two
            possible responses are you indicating. I will request you to
            clarify this . Thanks.
            <br>
            <br>
            <blockquote cite="mid:D213B395.504C0%25tphang@ntu.edu.sg"
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              <div>
                <div>Fwiw, the outcome document is available at <a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://wsis10.asia/index.php/outcomes">http://wsis10.asia/index.php/outcomes</a>.</div>
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            <br>
            Yes, I saw it. Notably, it says " Accountability and
            transparency must also be applied to other stakeholder
            groups, including but not limited to the private sector..."
            and "Transparent and accountable procedural rules that
            empower marginalised voices and those who lack technical
            expertise need to be developed."<br>
            <br>
            !!??<br>
            <br>
            I want to be very respectful to those who evolved this
            document, but seriously, I am fully confounded.... Can one
            get away by saying and claiming anything, while publicly
            acting in quite the opposite manner (this is with regard to
            the organisers), that too in the civil society space that is
            supposed to be the morality holder of the society. Maybe you
            have some comments on this.<br>
            <br>
            Best regards<br>
            parminder<br>
            <br>
            <blockquote cite="mid:D213B395.504C0%25tphang@ntu.edu.sg"
              type="cite">
              <div>
                <div><br>
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                <div>
                  <div>Your questions remind me of a similar set of
                    criteria you asked of me re the APrIGF when we held
                    the meeting first in HK and then Singapore. So it’s
                    with that sense of deja vu that I’m writing this
                    email.</div>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>I will not go into the details of your questions.
                  (One long reply can only beget another.) Instead, I
                  will focus on what I consider to be the larger issues.</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <div>1. I think that such bottom-up initiatives should
                    be encouraged.</div>
                </div>
                <div>It is a lot of work to get going a meeting that
                  attempts to represent AP views. In this consultation,
                  there were forces working against it happening,
                  because of fears that the group might raise sensitive
                  issues. (I hope it did.) You probably mean well but
                  some cheerleading with some gentle nudges (instead of
                  harrumphs) should the group stray would be more
                  encouraging to current and future initiatives.</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>2. There is a tension between legitimacy and
                  efficacy. </div>
                <div>They are not in total contradiction because a
                  non-legitimate outcome will likely not be efficacious.
                  But I hope you can see how trying to cross all the
                  “T"s and dotting the “I"s may mean not moving forward
                  in such situations. For example Edmon and I were so
                  enthused about getting the APrIGF going so that there
                  would be some form of feedback from Asia-Pac to the
                  IGF in 2010 that it took us two years for the APrIGF
                  MSG (a culturally appropriate term) to have me elected
                  as Chair. Before that, as Edmon was leading the event
                  in HK, he chaired the meetings that year; and when I
                  did Singapore, I chaired the meetings for that year.
                  There was sufficient buy-in from the AP organisations
                  in our nascent stage that the APrIGF was able to move
                  forward. </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>3. So how does one recognise legitimacy?</div>
                <div>I don’t see one size fitting all. It is a mix of
                  process and outcome, of being open and inclusive and
                  being transparent in processes and outcomes. But also
                  in achieving at least a reasonable outcome. The
                  ultimate test is acceptance by the Internet community.
                  In the present case, the acceptance of the Pattaya key
                  messages. (Google obviously has questions about
                  legitimacy; it asks, "Did you mean: pattaya
                  massages?”)</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>4. In the interest of transparency, I declare that
                  the organisers paid for my budget airline ticket from
                  Singapore to Bangkok, the transfers to and from
                  Bangkok airport and the stay in Pattaya. The transfers
                  in Singapore, the tips to the drivers and tips to the
                  staff who serviced my hotel room were paid by me. </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <div>Regards, </div>
                  <div>Peng Hwa</div>
                </div>
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                  <span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a
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                  on behalf of Parminder Singh <<a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:parminder@ITforChange.net">parminder@ITforChange.net</a>><br>
                  <span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"<a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>"
                  <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>>,

                  Parminder Singh <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:parminder@ITforChange.net">parminder@ITforChange.net</a>><br>
                  <span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday,
                  2 September 2015 3:01 pm<br>
                  <span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>"
                  <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>>,
                  BestBitsList <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:bestbits@lists.bestbits.net">bestbits@lists.bestbits.net</a>>,
                  Anja Kovacs <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:anja@internetdemocracy.in">anja@internetdemocracy.in</a>><br>
                  <span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re:
                  [governance] [bestbits] Taking place next week: Asian
                  Regional Consultation on the WSIS+10 Review - remote
                  participation available<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><font face="Verdana">Hi Anja<br>
                      <br>
                      There were two levels of issues that I had raised.
                      First (which I call as category 1) is simple,
                      direct, objective and fully-self contained, public
                      interest information about what is supposed to be
                      a public interest activity. I have covered this
                      aspect in the email I sent just now.<br>
                      <br>
                      The second (category 2) is connected, but a
                      slightly lower level issue because it involves
                      judgements, and judgements about judgements, about
                      who was invited, who was funded, who was informed
                      in time enough to consider participating, and so
                      on....( In fact, this part is also greatly helped
                      by a full declaration of the decision process, the
                      group involved in making the judgements, and so
                      on, which basic info is part of category 1 above.)<br>
                      <br>
                      I do not want to mix issues of category 1 and 2,
                      so that the clarity of category 1 issues, and the
                      basic and objective imperatives involved, may not
                      get diluted. So please provide me</font><font
                      face="Verdana"> separately</font><font
                      face="Verdana"> the fully objective information </font><font
                      face="Verdana">under category 1 </font><font
                      face="Verdana">sought in my earlier email  .<br>
                      <br>
                      Meanwhile, this email will deal with some
                      admittedly judgemental issues that are involved,
                      which while being not fully objective are still a
                      worthy subject of public debate. Please see
                      inline....<br>
                      <br>
                    </font><br>
                    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 01 September
                      2015 11:52 PM, Anja Kovacs wrote:<br>
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                        <div>
                          <div>Hi Parminder,<br>
                            <br>
                          </div>
                          I have not discussed this with my
                          co-organisers, but as the person who first
                          came up with this idea and also the one to
                          send the message to which you responded, I am
                          happy to provide some answers.
                          <br>
                          <br>
                        </div>
                        <div>Perhaps first a note on what we are trying
                          to do here. As we all know, the modalities
                          explicitly made the Review a government-led
                          process. Also, details on the way in which the
                          informal consultations with other stakeholders
                          would be facilitated remained extremely scanty
                          even eight months before the review was
                          supposed to take place. Even when the Review
                          process was formally announced, it wasn't
                          clear to what extent inputs from stakeholders
                          other than governments would be taken into
                          account. This meeting is an attempt to be
                          proactive in that situation, trying to amplify
                          voices from our region to make sure that
                          concerns from this region actually find
                          resonance in New York - something that, seeing
                          how far removed we are from there, isn't
                          guaranteed at all.
                          <br>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    Sure... I note the term <i>'amplify voices</i>' and
                    the neutrality of the platform which is thus
                    suggested.... Hope you note it too, and your
                    responses are informed with this fact . (The
                    <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://www.wsis10.asia/index.php">conference
                      website</a> carries this blurb "Amplifying Asian
                    Voices in the WSIS + 10 Process" - which raises the
                    important public interest question about who
                    determines and filters what are 'Asian Voices')<br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>The organisations that are co-organising
                          this meeting are organisations that all got
                          enthused by this prospect, and were willing to
                          put part of their organisational budgets, of
                          their staff's time and minds, or of all of
                          these up to make this event happen.</div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    Who funded what - especially in terms of actual
                    money.... Lets not generalise clear and objective
                    issues and questions. What you refuse to answer, you
                    should just say so.
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div>No funding was secured specifically for
                          this meeting (though I tried). What this meant
                          is that the funding pool was limited, and
                          difficult decisions indeed did have to be
                          made.</div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    Who made the decisions, what was the process... This
                    being after all an "Asia Regional Consultation"
                    whereby the outputs of it will also carry that
                    label.
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div>What we aimed for was to have a balanced
                          representation across Asia's sub-regions as
                          well as a group that could address a mix of
                          issues from a range of perspectives.
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    'Balanced representation'.... and 'mix of issues
                    from a range of perspectives'  :) . You must be
                    joking.... One cant just write anything, just
                    because it sounds good and is of a general
                    nature.... Can you show how is it balanced and
                    admits a range of perspective, about which more
                    below...<br>
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div>A direct engagement with the WSIS+10 Review
                          process over the past two years was definitely
                          seen as a plus, but not a must.
                          <br>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    Sure. Then maybe engagement with WSIS for 12 years
                    would be a big plus plus plus ... but it did not
                    seem to count here among a 'range of perspectives'
                    and 'balanced views'..... You need to justify with
                    facts all the good and general things you are
                    writing here if we are to have a meaningful dialogue
                    and not just confuse people.<br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div><br>
                          As is bound to happen in such circumstances,
                          there are indeed people who would be able to
                          offer valuable inputs to the meeting but who
                          we were not able to offer funding.</div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    Just wanted to understand the 'process'.. Who was
                    actually making the decisions. <br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div>Luckily, some of those are able to
                          self-fund their attendance.</div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    But then they at least need to know about the event,
                    which I first heard about exactly 10 days before the
                    meeting from your email below -- this even when we
                    were in conversation over another issue, in fact a
                    meeting my organisation is organising in Delhi on
                    the 5th of Sept to which we invited you, but you
                    said you cannot come, even at that stage not
                    revealing why you could not - which I now gather
                    was  bec you had this Asia Consultation meeting on
                    the 5th. Anja, the meeting plans and dates were
                    clearly kept under wraps till the very last minute -
                    so I do not understand this 'self funding' business
                    either.... Other than it being another link in the
                    long chain of general, good sounding, statements,
                    which are not very well founded on facts, and thus
                    do not contribute to a serious and useful
                    discussion. Maybe some people could have self funded
                    (although I could not have)  if they knew about this
                    meeting... But the problem is that a so called 'Asia
                    Regional Consultation' of a UN process is being held
                    even without sufficient notice to people (all of 10
                    days)...<br>
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div>In addition, we tried to alleviate the
                          restrictions imposed by the limited funding by
                          deciding to provide remote participation, so
                          as to allow all those interested in
                          participating to do so. The full modalities of
                          how this will work is something that we are
                          still working out: as this is intended to be a
                          working meeting, ensuring that remote
                          participation is substantive is not a given.
                          We are doing our very best to try and pull off
                          successfully what I think is a first in our
                          region for a meeting of this kind.
                          <br>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    I am not sure what you mean by first of this
                    kind.... The original WSIS process had publicly
                    funded regional review meetings, in both its
                    phases...
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>Your claim that nobody from the Just Net
                          Coalition has been invited is of course not
                          correct. One organisation was on our shortlist
                          from day one. Another is attending on its own
                          force, and we are very happy that they, as
                          well as others, have been able to draw on
                          their own resources to attend this event and
                          contribute to its success.
                          <br>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    But perhaps you could have put the info on the Just
                    Net Coalition elist, so that all would know, also
                    also engaged with other JNC members especially those
                    who were most active in WSIS + 10 engagement
                    including developing JNC's statement towards it.
                    That reminds me - the resource page of your proposed
                    'Consultation', which carry a number of
                    contributions to the WSIS + 10 process of NGOs and
                    even of non-NGOs, chose to specifically censor the
                    contribution of Just Net Coalition. This says a lot
                    to your commitment to 'balanced views' and 'range of
                    perspectives'. <br>
                    <br>
                    (Well, very interestingly, I now see that JNC's
                    contribution has been added now after I wrote the
                    email yesterday, but
                    <i>it wasnt there till yesterday</i>, and I did take
                    the enclosed print out which shows that it wasnt .
                    Anja, another specific question, is it not true that
                    the JNC contribution was not there on your list of
                    contributions page till yesterday?  )<br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>On APRCEM, thanks for the heads-up. I am
                          glad to hear that they are now intending to
                          work on issues related to science and
                          technology as well,</div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    They have worked in this area for quite some time..<br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div>and that they are even engaging with the
                          Internet Social Forum initiative on this.
                          Though I am on an email list that is dedicated
                          to discussing the Internet Social Forum, I
                          don't seem to be able to locate that
                          information there. Do please feel free to pass
                          on the message about this event to them
                          though. If any representative of APRCEM would
                          be interested in attending, either in person
                          or remotely, they are very welcome to do so,
                          as are you.<br>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    Dont you think this is very late for meeting in 3
                    days! But again, the real issues here are structural
                    ones around civil society processes and
                    transparency/ accountability, and not about
                    individuals...
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>Hope this clarifies.<br>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </blockquote>
                    <br>
                    My apologies, but it doesnt. <br>
                    <br>
                    Best, parminder <br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">
                      <div dir="ltr">
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div>Regards,<br>
                        </div>
                        <div>Anja<br>
                        </div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <br>
                        <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                          <div class="gmail_quote">On 31 August 2015 at
                            18:47, parminder <span dir="ltr"><<a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net"
                                target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>></span>
                            wrote:<br>
                            <blockquote class="gmail_quote"
                              style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:1px
                              #ccc solid; padding-left:1ex">
                              <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Dear organisers of
                                the <b>Asian Regional Consultation on
                                  the WIS+10 Review,<br>
                                  <br>
                                </b>With your permission I have some
                                questions to ask you. I know this is a
                                treacherous territory, given an extra
                                ordinary (and completely inappropriate)
                                sensitivity to being asked questions by
                                some groups, but my apologies, I cannot
                                but ask them in pursuance of my public
                                interest work, however distasteful it
                                may be even for me to get into this
                                thing....<br>
                                <br>
                                This is being called a 'consultation'
                                and further an 'Asian Regional'
                                consultation, on what is a global
                                governance process, and so some
                                questions arise in my mind:<br>
                                <br>
                                (1) who is funding this 'consultation'<br>
                                <br>
                                (2) on what criteria participants were
                                determined, and invitations sent, and by
                                whom - were all concerned people invited
                                (that, in my view, would be a
                                consultation)<br>
                                <br>
                                (3) On what criteria funding for
                                participation was provided, and by whom,
                                and who decided it..<br>
                                <br>
                                Thanks for answering these public
                                interest questions...<br>
                                <br>
                                I may declare that my interest got
                                evoked from the knowledge that no member
                                of the Just Net Coalition has been
                                invited... IT for Change is among very
                                few groups in Asia Pacific which has
                                been engaged with the WSIS process from
                                the start, and very thoroughly engaged.
                                Further, there is in fact an <a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="http://www.asiapacificrcem.org/"
                                  target="_blank">
                                  Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement
                                  Mechanism</a>, which describes itself
                                as<br>
                                <br>
                                <blockquote>"APRCEM is a civil society
                                  platform aimed to enable stronger
                                  cross constituency coordination and
                                  ensure that voices of all sub-regions
                                  of Asia Pacific are heard in
                                  intergovernmental processes in
                                  regional and global level. The
                                  platform is initiated, owned and
                                  driven by the CSOs, and has been set
                                  up under the auspices of UN-ESCAP and
                                  seeks to engage with UN agencies and
                                  Member States on the Post-2015 as well
                                  as other development related
                                  issues/processes. "<br>
                                </blockquote>
                                In fact the APRCEM also has an Science
                                and Technology Constituency which works
                                as an active network (of which IT for
                                Change is a member) which has begun to
                                work closely with the Just Net Coalition
                                (many JNC members also being its
                                members) and the Internet Social Forum
                                initiatives, which shows its interest in
                                Internet issues... As far as I know no
                                member of this network, or the network
                                as a whole, has been involved in this
                                so-called "Asia Regional Consultation'
                                which being on a UN process this group
                                would be natural constituency... All of
                                which makes me wonder, and so my
                                questions..<br>
                                <br>
                                <br>
                                parminder <br>
                                <div>
                                  <div class="h5"><br>
                                    <br>
                                    <div>On Wednesday 26 August 2015
                                      08:21 PM, Anja Kovacs wrote:<br>
                                    </div>
                                  </div>
                                </div>
                                <blockquote type="cite">
                                  <div>
                                    <div class="h5">
                                      <div dir="ltr">
                                        <div>Dear all,<br>
                                          <br>
                                        </div>
                                        The Internet Democracy Project,
                                        Bytes for All, APNIC, the
                                        Association for Progressive
                                        Communications, ISOC, Global
                                        Partners Digital and ICT Watch
                                        are together organising an
                                        <b>Asian Regional Consultation
                                          on the WIS+10 Review</b> from
                                        3 to 5 September in Pattaya,
                                        Thailand.
                                        <br>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal">The Asian
                                          Regional Consultation on the
                                          WSIS+10 Review will bring
                                          together experts from
                                          different backgrounds and from
                                          around the Asian region who
                                          are concerned about issues
                                          concerning ICTs, sustainable
                                          development, human rights and
                                          Internet governance, to ask: <b>what
                                            are the issues that our
                                            governments need to squarely
                                            address in the process of
                                            the review?
                                            <br>
                                          </b></p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal">The meeting
                                          is timed so as to be able for
                                          the group to comment on the
                                          non-paper that will have been
                                          released by the
                                          co-facilitators of the review
                                          process in late August (inputs
                                          into that paper can be made by
                                          all stakeholders and are due
                                          on 31 July).<span> The group
                                            will take stock of the
                                            extent to which priorities
                                            for the Asian region have
                                            been reflected in the
                                            non-paper, and will work
                                            together on formulating a
                                            joint comment on the
                                            non-paper</span> (comments
                                          on the non-paper will be due
                                          in mid-September, and will be
                                          drawn on by the
                                          co-facilitators to formulate a
                                          zero-draft).
                                          <span>The group will also look
                                            forward to consider which
                                            further inputs could be made
                                            or actions could be taken
                                            strategically to ensure that
                                            priorities from the Asian
                                            region are fully taken onto
                                            board in the final WSIS+10
                                            Review outcome documents.
                                          </span>If there are other
                                          processes the group believes
                                          this work could usefully feed
                                          into, these might be taken
                                          into consideration as well.
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><b>The
                                            meeting is conceived as a
                                            highly interactive working
                                            meeting that is geared
                                            towards producing a joint
                                            submission to the next input
                                            round on the Review outcome
                                            document.
                                          </b>Participants will be drawn
                                          from all non-government
                                          stakeholder groups, and will
                                          have a wide and rich variety
                                          of backgrounds, both in terms
                                          of professional expertise and
                                          geographical location. What
                                          unites all, however, is a
                                          shared commitment to a free
                                          and open Internet and to the
                                          use of technology to benefit
                                          the development and human
                                          rights of all in our region.
                                          <br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><b>We're
                                            very happy to let you know
                                            that remote participation
                                            will be available.
                                          </b>For more information on
                                          remote participation and the
                                          event in general, please see
                                          the
                                          <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                            href="http://www.wsis10.asia/"
                                            target="_blank">event
                                            website</a>. Or follow us on
                                          Twitter @WSISAsia #wsis10.<br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal">We look
                                          forward to your inputs into
                                          this event. Do please let me
                                          know if you have any comments
                                          or questions.<br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
                                        </p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal">Warm
                                          regards,</p>
                                        <p class="MsoNormal">Anja<br>
                                        </p>
                                        <br>
                                        <div>
                                          <div><br>
                                            -- <br>
                                            <div>Dr. Anja Kovacs<br>
                                              The Internet Democracy
                                              Project<br>
                                              <br>
                                              +91 9899028053 |
                                              @anjakovacs<br>
                                              <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.internetdemocracy.in/" target="_blank">www.internetdemocracy.in</a><br>
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