[Pal-dc] FW: strategic gathering of NGOs around Internet governance

[Melody Clark]

Thought this might be of interest, given our discussion at IFLA this past week. 

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Best Bits – a strategic gathering of NGOs around Internet governance and Internet principles Baku, Azerbaijan, 3 and 4 November 2012

Objectives
• To broaden and diversify participation in the initiatives that participants are undertaking individually or in smaller networks (in particular dissolving North-South divides), by allowing participants to report on those initiatives to their peers and thereby discover opportunities for collaboration or even merger of similar initiatives.
• To amplify the voice of civil society at the upcoming WCIT about proposed amendments of the ITRs, by sharing knowledge about harmful proposals and empowering participants to raise the shared concerns with their national delegations.
• To produce tangible shared outputs addressing pressing current issues that can be used in advocacy at important upcoming Internet governance events, most notably the global IGF in November and the WCIT in December.
• To raise the level of shared understanding about related groups, initiatives and issues and their political contexts, and thereby increase the quality of advocacy work conducted by individual groups and networks on Internet governance issues, and reduce duplication.
• To jointly outline the development of an inclusive and sustainable civil society network for Internet governance issues, that would provide a platform for collaboration and mutual learning over the longer term.
oup coordinators are yet to be confirmed, so for now please use the details above.
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