[bestbits] Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening speakers by COB 07 November

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

+1 for Asad Baig

Anriette

PS - these are my own views - APC will submit nominations via Chat
Garcia Ramilo and the CSCG.



On 07/11/2016 17:16, Shahzad Ahmad wrote:
> Dear Friends and colleagues,
> 
> We are very pleased to nominate Mr. Asad Baig, Executive Director, Media
> Matters for Democracy from Pakistan to be one of the speaker. We have
> talked to him and he is willing to take up this important
> responsibility. His brief profile is appended below:
> 
> ———
> Asad Baig
> asad at mediamatters.pk <mailto:asad at mediamatters.pk>
> 
> Asad Baig is the founder and Executive Director of Media Matters for
> Democracy, a Pakistan based non profit working to promote and protect
> freedom of expression in the country as a key component of democratic
> development. A technologist by education, he switched to journalism
> early in his career and has since been interested in bringing the two
> together. His organisation is working extensively on bringing together
> journalism and technology and is thus involved in policy discussions on
> internet governance and regulation from a rights based perspective. He
> is also working with his team to improve and facilitate access of
> technology to women and marginalised groups in Pakistan and is currently
> involved in the process of developing a technological solution for
> countering gender based abuse online.  Previously associated with Open
> Society Foundations Pakistan, he lobbied to add open data and equal
> access to the foundation’s media program strategy and was instrumental
> in the creation of various local coalition working on issues ranging
> from digital rights to impunity in journalists’ murders. In addition to
> various researches on media content and economy in Pakistan, he has also
> published researches on the status of freedom of expression online and
> state of religious expression in cyberspace. He is currently a part of
> the Mutistakeholder Advisory Group for Pakistan National IGF. 
> ———
> 
> Over to you for your kind considerations. 
> 
> Best wishes and regards
> 
> Shahzad
> 
> 
> --- 
> 
> Shahzad Ahmad 
> Country Director, Bytes for All, Pakistan
> Office Direct Landline: +92 51 8437982   Cell. +92 333 5236060
> 
> 
> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Sheetal Kumar* <sheetal at gp-digital.org
>> <mailto:sheetal at gp-digital.org>>
>> Date: 4 November 2016 at 14:24
>> Subject: Time sensitive: Nominations for IGF closing and opening
>> speakers by COB 07 November
>> To: bestbits at lists.bestbits.net <mailto:bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
>> Cc: Poncelet Ileleji pileleji at ymca.gm <mailto:pileleji at ymca.gm>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> If you would like to nominate anyone (including yourself) as an
>> opening or closing civil society speaker at this year's IGF in
>> Guadalajara, Mexico (December 06-09), please send Poncelet (cc'd) and
>> I or the list your nomination with a short statement of the reason for
>> thenomination, and whether the person (if not yourself) has agreed to
>> benominated. 
>>
>> The IGF the Secretariat has asked for names by *COB Thursday 10
>> November*, - therefore we ask that you send yournominations by_*COB 07
>> November*_.
>>
>> Any nominations given will be briefly discussed among the civil
>> society coordination group (which contains reps of all the main civil
>> society networks in Internet governance, including us). 
>>
>> Thanks! Any questions let us know,
>>
>> Best,
>> -- 
>> *Sheetal Kumar*
>> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL
>> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL
>> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514
>> <tel:%2B44%20%280%297739569514>  | 
>>
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>>
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>> *
>> *Sheetal Kumar*
>> Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL
>> Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL
>> T: +44 (0)203 818 3258 0337| M: +44 (0)7739569514  | 
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Anriette Esterhuysen
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Association for Progressive Communications
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