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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Robin Gross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@ipjustice.org" target="_blank">robin@ipjustice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NCSGers:</p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">An initiative from Jeremy Malcolm of EFF was presented to the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) to organize a joint civil society Pre-IGF 2016 meeting.  </p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The initiative was endorsed by the CSCG and it was recommended to form an interim steering committee consisting of representatives from each coalition to organize the joint meeting.</p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The members of this interim steering committee are: </p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px">Arsène Tungali & Analia Aspis  - IGC</p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px"></div><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px">Deborah Brown – APC</p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px"></div><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px">Farzaneh Badii  -  NCSG    </p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px"></div><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px">Jeremy Malcolm – Best Bits</p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px"></div><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-left:40px">Norbert Bollow – JNC</p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The hope is that this event will promote civil society solidarity in the Internet governance space.  </p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BIG thanks to Farzi for being willing to assist in the organization of this discussion!</p><div>Best,</div><div>Robin</div><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>