There you go. Two women to represent us!<br>The names were unfamiliar to me, it is good to know them now.<br>Congratulations! <br><br>-----<br>Arsene Tungali,<br>Executive Director, Rudi International.<br>Founder & Director, Mabingwa Forum.<br><br>Mandela Washington Fellow. ICANN Fellow. ISOC IGF Ambassador. Blogger. Child Online Protection. Communications Specialist.<br><br>Democratic Republic of Congo.<br>Sent from Huawei Mobile (excuse typos)<br><br>Ian Peter <ian.peter@ianpeter.com> wrote:<br><br>
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<div>Below are the two nominations from Civil Society Coordination Group for
speakers for this years IGF opening and closing ceremonies. They were chosen
from a field of 20 names submitted from various civil society coalitions, and
have been forwarded to the IGF Secretariat. I must say that any of the 20 names
submitted could have represented us admirably, and that it was a tough decision
for the CSCG members to come up with 2 names.</div>
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<div>Joana Varon (Brazil) – opening ceremony – <a style="href: "mailto:joana@varonferraz.com"">joana@varonferraz.com</a></div>
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<div>Nadine Moawad (Lebanon) – closing ceremony – <a style="href: "mailto:nadine@apcwomen.org"">nadine@apcwomen.org</a></div>
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<div>For those who don’t know them,</div>
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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; WIDOWS: 1; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><font style="COLOR: #000000">Joana Varon Ferraz is a researcher and project
coordinator at the Centre for Technology and Society from Fundação Getulio
Vargas in Rio de Janeiro</font></span></div>
<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; FLOAT: none; COLOR: ; WIDOWS: 1; DISPLAY: inline !important; LETTER-SPACING: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><font style="COLOR: #3c3c3c"></font></span> </div>Nadine Moawad is a Lebanese
feminist activist and grasssroots worker who leads Association for Progressive
Communication (APC)'s sexual <br>rights work.
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<div>We commend them both as informed excellent communicators to represent civil
society. They have both been informed of their nominations.</div>
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<div>Ian Peter (Independent Chair, Civil Society Coordination
Group)</div></div></div>