[governance] Pre-announcement of "Best Bits", 3-4 November, Baku, Azerbaijan

[michael gurstein]

Bravo on this initiative Jeremy!

 

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Subject: [governance] Pre-announcement of "Best Bits", 3-4 November, Baku,
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This is a "save the date" notice for a gathering on Internet governance and
Internet rights in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 3-4 ahead of the global IGF,
titled "Best Bits".  This will be an advocacy-focused event designed for
sharing knowledge and collaborating on tangible outputs.  It arose from
discussions of a diverse group of North and South based experts held at the
Asia-Pacific Regional IGF.

You can download a short document which gives more details about the
motivation for the event, the programme, and the expected outputs from
http://igf-online.net/bestbits.pdf.  For more information, you are also
invited to join the "Best Bits" mailing list at
http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/bestbits.  Specific details such as the venue
will be confirmed later.

The importance of this meeting for the IGC is that it is meant partly as a
bridge between our IGF/WSIS world and the US tech policy world, leading to
better informed, more effective, and more complementary and consistent
advocacy outcomes - though there is no intention to subsume or supersede any
existing work.  The other purpose is to produce specific outputs, including
the long-planned civil society statement of principles for the IGF, and a
slightly different one to WCIT.

If you plan to attend, please let me know off-list - this is just for
planning purposes, as a formal registration form will come later.

If you would require any assistance with travel expenses, a very limited
fund may be available courtesy of Google to assist certain individuals with
specific skillsets who will contribute to the meeting by way of moderating,
presenting, helping to prepare briefing documents, or working on the
zero-draft texts that are to be discussed and finalised at the meeting.
Those seeking support must let me know strictly within 1 week, ie. by 24
August 2012 at the latest.

-- 

Dr Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Policy Officer
Consumers International | the global campaigning voice for consumers
Office for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East
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