<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font face="Book Antiqua">Hi</font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua"><br></font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua">The program for the First African School on Internet Governance 9-12 July in Durban is now largely fix and available at <a href="http://african-ig-school.events.apc.org/home/programme">http://african-ig-school.events.apc.org/home/programme</a>. NCUC will be well represented among the faculty and speakers; members who will be talking at some point over those days include Carlos Afonso, David Cake, Avri Doria (who co-organized the program), Bill Drake, Grace Githaiga, Wolfgang Kleinwachter, Tim McGinnis, Desiree Miloshevic, Magaly Pazello, and via APC (org member), Valeria Betancourt, Anriette Esterhuysen, and Joy Liddicoa<font color="#555555"><span style="line-height: 20px;">t (apologies if I missed anyone). In addition, NCUCer Glenn McKnight has kindly offered to film and livestream the event. The School will conclude with a session we're organizing entitled, "</span></font></font><font color="#555555" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="line-height: 20px;">NCUC: The Challenges of Representing Civil Society in ICANN," which will be followed by an NCUC-sponsored social event. It should be an interesting few days, so people who can't make it to Durban might want to check out the live-streaming of our session and any other bits of interest.</span></font></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; "><br></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; ">Cheers,</div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 28px; ">Bill</div><div><font face="Book Antiqua"><br></font></div><div><font face="Book Antiqua"><br></font></div><font face="Book Antiqua"><br></font><div apple-content-edited="true"><font face="Book Antiqua">
**********************************************************<br>William J. Drake<br>International Fellow & Lecturer<br> Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ<br> University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency, <br> ICANN, <a href="http://www.ncuc.org">www.ncuc.org</a><br><a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a> <br><a href="http://www.williamdrake.org">www.williamdrake.org</a><br>***********************************************************<br>
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