<p dir="ltr">Good morning, </p>
<p dir="ltr">Unfortunately, I will not be in attendance on e ground.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> Is there an option for remote participation, however? I'd be more than willing to engage. </p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 Oct 2016 10:14 p.m., "Kawsu Sillah" <<a href="mailto:kawsu.sillah@gmail.com">kawsu.sillah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Greetings. Hope you are doing very well.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As you maybe aware, </span><font face="default sans serif, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">the 5th <a href="http://afigf.org/" target="_blank">African Internet Governance Forum</a> (AfIGF) is scheduled for 16-18 October, 2016 in Durban, South Africa.</font></div><div><font face="default sans serif, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="default sans serif, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Considering the importance of youth's involvement and leadership in IGF spaces, the secretariat of AfIGF has this year </font><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">specifically </span><font face="default sans serif, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">allocated two activities for the youth. One is a parallel workshop dubbed "Youth and Internet Governance" to be held on October 16, from 2.30 to 4.30pm and the other one is a plenary session on "Youth Entrepreneurship and Innovation": Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Africa, to be held on October 18, from 9:00 to 10:15am. This session we are told will be moderated/chaired by the Under Secretary for Communication at the Ministry of Communications of Egypt. </font></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Currently, there is a team working with the Secretariat on the programme for the day. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font face="default sans serif, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Against this backdrop, I am reaching out with an invitation to the fellow youth from various listservs, especially, those that are planning to </font><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">participate at the forum</span><font face="default sans serif, verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> in Durban and also to inquire about you participating in any of the sessions either as a speaker, moderator or rapporteur.</font><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please respond asap to confirm your availability and I will share more details. In your reply, be kind to keep my colleagues on copy.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Look </span><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">forward to having you in Durban.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Kind regards,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"default sans serif",verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Kawsu. </span><br></div><div><br></div><div>--Team member Youth @ AfIGF 2016--<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="m_4140225452489419146gmail-m_3095000759539615994gmail_signature"><div 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access to good software and good teachers and to the Internet, so that every
person will have the opportunity to make the most of his or her own life’ – Bill
Clinton, the former US President.</span></b><br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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