<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Afterthoughts (I’m still on my first cup of coffee so thinking slowly)</div>
<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 1, 2017, at 07:35, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch" class="">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">With a topic like this, you don’t have to worry about getting the precisely right blend of expertise, as per Farzi’s comment on your first proposal below. All of us can talk about the role and contributions of CS in ICANN or IG generally. You could just toss in names of people who’ll be there, and if you decide later you want a different mix tweak if after it’s accepted. I assume you and Renata plan to attend, and I expect to be doing another WS and could speak to this if you like. Not sure who else is coming but you could poll quickly and send such a thing by COB.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Fiona Alexander from the US NTIA will be there for the workshop I’m doing and is a strong supporter of civil society & multistakeholder, so I could probably rope her in.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anriette Esterhuysen usually comes to WSIS Forum and would have a lot to say.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chinmayi Arun from the Centre for Communication Governance in India usually comes and could speak to CS @ IG.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Torbjörn Fredriksson is the Head of the ICT Analysis Section at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and also will be on my WS, and he’s interested in CS engagement at UNCTAD and more generally on Internet stuff, could share experiences from another organizational context.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And if you put such folks, esp. USG and UNCTAD, on the panel, the chances of ITU turning down the proposal decline methinks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>