Hi Dawit,<br><br>Last time you told us you will be announcing in
advance the INET meeting in Africa. I would have thought that a
regional meeting of ISOC Africa would have been announced early enough
to draw on its constituencies new and old properly. From the agenda,
the speakers or panelist are not yet confirmed which is disconcerting
in terms of having a productive dialog.<br>
<br>Could you please let us know why this meeting is taking place in
such a short notice, when Regional meeting of this capacity should have
at least 2 months lead time? Hope to see a better preparation from
ISOC Africa next time!<br>
<br>-nebiyu<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Dawit Bekele <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bekele@isoc.org">bekele@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Dear all,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We are pleased to announce the INET Africa meeting to be
held on May 18, 2009 at Intercontinental City Stars Hotel in Cairo, Egypt
together with AfNOG and AfriNIC meetings that will be held during the same
week. Please note that the meeting date has been moved from the one announced
on AfNOG and AfriNIC sites.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">This year’s INET’s title is “IGF Sharm El
Sheikh: An Opportunity to Foster Regional Internet Governance”. It is
organized by the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Ministry of Communication and
Information Technology of Egypt. The meeting aims at holding discussions to
prepare the African Internet community for the Internet Governance Forum that
will take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, next November. It will
discuss the issues of focus of this year’s IGF with an African
perspective. </span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">For your convenience you are invited to review the published
agenda at <a href="http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/09/egypt.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/09/egypt.shtml</a>.
For meeting and registration details, please see <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-10/registration.htm" title="http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-10/registration.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-10/registration.htm</span></font></a>
or contact <a href="mailto:inetafrica@isoc.org" target="_blank">inetafrica@isoc.org</a>.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We look forward to seeing you in Cairo.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Sincerely,</span></font></p>
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Dawit Bekele, Regional Bureau
Manager - Africa
<<a href="mailto:bekele@isoc.org" target="_blank">bekele@isoc.org</a>><br>
Tel: +251 911 22 13 33/+41 22 809
0363 <a href="http://www.isoc.org" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.org</a><br>
Internet Society
(ISOC) "The
Internet is for everyone"<br>
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