Summary of ways to participate in Best Bits

[parminder]

On Tuesday 16 October 2012 12:57 PM, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> I am cutting and pasting here from an off-list email summarising the 
> opportunities that still exist for you to participate in Best Bits, 
> since I thought that information might be useful to others too.
>
>   * To distribute ownership of the event more widely, the moderators
>     of each session are now responsible for finding volunteers to
>     contribute to that session (as panelists, discussants, etc, as
>     they choose).  So please take a look at
>     http://bestbits.igf-online.net/agenda/ and decide which session/s
>     you'd like to contribute to.  I can then put you in touch with the
>     moderator, or you can contact them directly.
>   * Please upload any documents that you'd like the other participants
>     to use as resources to the page
>     http://bestbits.igf-online.net/background-papers/, by this
>     Friday.  Instructions on how to do so are there. Andrew Puddephatt
>     will be compiling them together into a briefing pack, and writing
>     an introductory paper.  If you have difficulty uploading, let me know.
>

I did a paper on dev agenda in IG last year which is at 
http://www.itforchange.net/sites/default/files/ITfC/%20%20Dev%20agenda%20in%20IG%20200412.pdf 
. It speaks about global pubic policy issues and institutional options. 
Best, parminder
>
>  *
>   * As for the "zero draft" output documents, these have been slower
>     to come together than anticipated, however we deliberately have
>     several hours to work on them during the event itself.  As things
>     stand we do not have draft text, so by all means, please post your
>     ideas to the list.
>       o For the ITU statement, William Drake is facilitating it and is
>         proposing a text focusing on substantive issues, which will be
>         submitted to the ITU public comment process on 3 November.
>       o For the Internet governance principles, Wolfgang
>         Kleinwächter's current proposal is that we use the existing
>         text that APC and others worked on for the Council of Europe,
>         which is this one: http://www.apc.org/en/node/11199.
>
> In addition:
>
>   * If you have been offered funding for your hotel stay during Best
>     Bits, please reply to confirm whether you will be needing this,
>     and whether you will be staying at the Days Hotel (in which case
>     we can pay the hotel directly for those nights) or elsewhere.
>   * If you will be attending Best Bits in person but have not yet
>     re-confirmed your registration by completing the form at
>     http://bestbits.igf-online.net/registration/, please take one
>     minute now do do that.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
>
> *Dr Jeremy Malcolm
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