<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Virginia Paque</div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 17.33333396911621px;" class="">Independent Chair</span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 17.33333396911621px;" class="">Internet Governance Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Dear Ms. Paque<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The listed Directors of the Caribbean Conservation Association endorse the nomination of Deirdre Williams of St. Lucia to the <span style="line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""> Multistakeholder
Advisory Group (MAG) for the 2016 </span><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Internet Governance Forum.</span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Ms. Williams combines over eight years of intensive involvement with Internet Governance issues on behalf of Caribbean civil society with a breadth of contacts and insight into the special needs of Caribbean society for access and exercise of fundamental Internet rights and principles. As promoters of the use of knowledge and internet knowledge management technologies for sustainable environmental resource use, we feel confident that Ms. Williams experience and insights applied to the Internet Governance Forum process will improve Caribbean and small island access to these vital 21st century technologies.</span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Bruce Potter for himself and these other Directors of the Caribbean Conservation Association:</span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Ermath Harrington, President of the CCA Board, resident of Trinidad</span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Clarence Pilgrim, resident of Antigua</span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Patricia Turpin, resident of Tobago</span></div><div class=""><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Reina Vire, resident of Trinidad</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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