<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hi DD <br>This is to acknowledge your mail and also support Virginia normation. Congrats to Virginia.<br>Best of the day.<br>Remmy Nweke </div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com">Deirdre Williams</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">13/12/2015 12:57</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">Internet Governance</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[governance] CSCG CHAIR</span><br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear All,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;">Copied below is the announcement of the new arrangements for the CSCG Chair.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;">Best wishes</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;">Deirdre</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;">CSCG CHAIR ARRANGEMENTS</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;"></font> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;">The Internet Governance Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) is pleased to announce that, following consideration of a range of names put forward for the role of Independent Chair, it has agreed to appoint Virginia Paque. As well, and at Virginia’s request, Ian Peter will continue on in a parallel role as Co-Chair with her for 12 months, to allow for both a smooth transition and load sharing over the coming year.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;">Virginia Paque has previous experience with CSCG, having been the representative of Diplo Foundation on CSCG until recently, when Diplo asked to withdraw because, despite its active involvement with and support of civil society, it could not be described as a coalition of civil society members. We look forward to Virginia’s renewed involvement and ongoing involvement in our activities.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 13pt;"><font style="font-size: 11pt;">We wish to thank everyone who put names forward for their interest, and look forward to continuing to provide a conduit for civil society appointments to outside bodies in 2016 with the guidance of our two Co-Chairs.</font></p><div><font style="font-size: 11pt;"><br></font></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979</div>
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