<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We are well into the first day of this, and if you go to the link you will find two sessions - 1) a full exploration of the history and state of Internet Governance from a Sri Lankan POV, and 2) the Women IGF which examines the role of gender in Internet Governance. A very high level of intelligence is evident in the session Q&A's with the mainly young crowd. Tomorrow, Wednesday, sees the actual Youth IGF sessions. We still have another Women IGF session to go today.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div class="m_4445216216705890955subscription-body-tag"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "Today Tuesday May 16 2017 through Thursday May 18 2017 the second Internet Governance Forum Sri Lanka is being held in Colombo. The IGF Sri Lanka reinforces active citizenship in people and participates in the development of intercultural and intergenera" </span><table class="m_4445216216705890955subscribe-body" style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0 auto;overflow:hidden"><table class="m_4445216216705890955subscribe-wrapper" style="width:100%;background-color:#fff;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0 auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="m_4445216216705890955the-post" valign="top"><div class="m_4445216216705890955post-content" style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfsrilanka2017"><img class="m_4445216216705890955size-full m_4445216216705890955wp-image-9188" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid #ccc;" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/igflk_170x255.png" alt="Livestream" border="0"></a>Today <strong>Tuesday May 16 2017</strong> through <strong>Thursday May 18 2017</strong> the second <strong> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://igf.lk">Internet Governance Forum Sri Lanka</a></strong> is being held in Colombo. The IGF Sri Lanka reinforces active citizenship in people and participates in the development of intercultural and intergenerational dialogues. The 2017 theme is "<strong>Cyber Security & Safer Internet</strong>". The IGF Sri Lanka is hosted by <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc.lk/language/en/">ISOC Sri Lanka</a></strong> and the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.mtdi.gov.lk/">Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure</a></strong> with support from the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc.org">Internet Society</a> </strong>and the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://igfsa.org">IGFSA</a></strong> and other stakeholders. The event was extended to 3 days this year to include an <strong>Accessibilty Forum</strong>, a <strong>Women IGF</strong>, a <strong>Youth IGF</strong>, as well as workshops in <strong>Internet Governance</strong>. The event is webcast live via the <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfsrilanka2017"><strong>Internet Society Livestream Channel</strong>.</a></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em"><strong>View on Livestream: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfsrilanka2017">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfsrilanka2017</a><br> Twitter: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/igfsrilanka2017">#igfsrilanka2017</a></strong></p></div><p class="m_4445216216705890955subscribe-action-links" style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#666;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0 0 1em;padding:0;width:auto;padding-top:1em;padding-bottom:0em;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-left:0"> </p><table class="m_4445216216705890955auto-width" style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#fff;border-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;background-color:#2585b2;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0;white-space:nowrap" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9187#respond">Comment</a></td><td> <a class="m_4445216216705890955subscribe-action-link" style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9187#comments">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="m_4445216216705890955subscribe-wrapper-sub" style="width:100%;background-color:#efefef;text-align:left;border-top:1px solid #ddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td class="m_4445216216705890955subscribe-content" style="border-top:1px solid #f3f3f3;color:#888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 10px 0px"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px"> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>Permalink</strong></div><br> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9187">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9187</a><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="m_4445216216705890955subscribe-footer-wrap" style="width: 100%; background-image: ; background-color: #43a4d0; height: 3px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?blog=10787942&post=9187&subd=isoc-ny.org&ref=&email=1&email_o=jetpack&host=jetpack.wordpress.com" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0"></div></div><div><br><br></div><div> </div><div> </div><div class="gmail_signature"> </div></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><img src="https://t.yesware.com/t/b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e/2e89abcde4d32478cdd609a320524a7d/spacer.gif" style="border:0; width:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;" width="0" height="0"><img src="http://t.yesware.com/t/b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e/2e89abcde4d32478cdd609a320524a7d/spacer.gif" style="border:0; width:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;" width="0" height="0">-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>---------------------------------------------------------------<br><span>Joly MacFie <span title="Call with Google Voice"><span id="gc-number-284" class="gc-cs-link" title="Call with Google Voice">218 565 9365</span></span> Skype:punkcast</span><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-</div></div></div>
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