<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Great choices.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div><div class=""><br class=""><div style=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Oct 2015, at 3:15 am, Ian Peter <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" class="">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">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 class="">Joana Varon (Brazil) – opening ceremony – <a style="href: "mailto:joana@varonferraz.com"" class="">joana@varonferraz.com</a></div>
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<div class="">Nadine Moawad (Lebanon) – closing ceremony – <a style="href: "mailto:nadine@apcwomen.org"" class="">nadine@apcwomen.org</a></div>
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<div class="">For those who don’t know them,</div>
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<div class=""><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" class="">Joana Varon Ferraz is a researcher and project
coordinator at the Centre for Technology and Society from Fundação Getulio
Vargas in Rio de Janeiro</span></div>
<div class=""><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" class=""><font style="COLOR: #3c3c3c" class=""></font></span> </div>Nadine Moawad is a Lebanese
feminist activist and grasssroots worker who leads Association for Progressive
Communication (APC)'s sexual <br class="">rights work.
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<div class="">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 class="">Ian Peter (Independent Chair, Civil Society Coordination
Group)</div></div></div></div>
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