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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor="#6DC6DD" lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> The ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation & The GovLab [mailto:icannmsipanel@thegovlab.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 31 January 2014 19:01<br><b>To:</b> jrobinson@afilias.info<br><b>Subject:</b> Stage 2 Begins: Designing a 21st Century ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#6DC6DD;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:450.0pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:450.0pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%' id=templateHeader><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt 6.75pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 6.75pt 0cm 6.75pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=564 src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1a990feb5c/images/logo_icann_ideascale_3_.png" align=left v:shapes="_x0000_s1026"><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:450.0pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%' id=templateBody><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=600 style='width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><h1><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:125%'>Hello!</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>By engaging the stakeholders of the Internet (this really includes everyone!), the ICANN Strategy Panel on Multistakeholder Innovation (<a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=9e2fe95b04&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>the MSI Panel</span></a>) and The Governance Lab @ NYU (<a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=d1a6e896d6&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>The GovLab</span></a>) are working to develop a set of concrete proposals for designing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the public interest organization responsible for coordinating the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) – for the 21st Century.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>We’re writing to request your participation in this important initiative and to help us spread the word!</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Today launches </span><em><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Stage 2 </span></b></em><em><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>–<b> Proposal Development </b>–<b> </b></span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>of our online engagement effort aimed at getting </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>your</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'> input into the Panel’s work in order to bring our ideas for evolving ICANN from principle to practice. The Panel has been specifically charged by ICANN’s President and CEO with:</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Proposing new models for international engagement, consensus-driven policymaking and institutional structures to support such enhanced functions; and</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Designing processes, tools and platforms that enable the global ICANN community to engage in these new forms of participatory decision-making.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-left:11.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>To answer this charter, we launched a three-stage brainstorm initiative on November 19, 2013. We started with </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Stage 1: Idea Generation. </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>The Panel and GovLab launched an <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=49575264ee&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD;font-weight:normal'>engagement platform</span></a></span></strong> asking the global public to share their ideas for what techniques, strategies, tools and platforms ICANN could look to and learn from to help transform itself into an </span><em><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>effective, legitimate and evolving</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'> 21st century global organization. </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>We now want to take these ideas closer to implementation during Stage 2. To do so, we’ve shared the <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=b31cd77527&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6DC6DD'>draft proposal blueprint </span></strong></a>on the </span><em><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>GovLab Blog </span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>organizing all of our ideas into 16 concrete proposals for ICANN, which we are </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>opening up to you for discussion. </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>We want your feedback, input, comments, questions, and suggestions on what we’ve collected. We’ve also published our first set of proposals, which include recommendations for ICANN to:</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#606060;margin-top:11.0pt;margin-bottom:11.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=c8d26b0537&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>Leverage expert networking</span></a>;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#606060;margin-top:11.0pt;margin-bottom:11.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=78cb16e898&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>Use crowdsourcing during all phases of decisionmaking</span></a>; and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#606060;margin-top:11.0pt;margin-bottom:11.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=75796fa362&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>Crowdsource oversight and develop standards to measure success</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><div style='margin-top:11.0pt;margin-bottom:11.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:dimgray'>Feel free to provide feedback or reactions using comments or the line-by-line annotation tools enabled on the blog.</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:dimgray'>You can also see all of these materials aggregated on the GovLab's ICANN project page, online <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=e606d3f2d6&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><em><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6DC6DD'>HERE</span></b></em></a><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span></strong></span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Help us spread the word!</span></strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Do you know any people or organizations who would be interested in these proposal topics? </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>We’d love to get their feedback, too.</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'> Consider doing any of the following:</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Forward this “Call To Action” to colleagues and organizations you know working in these areas who may have ideas or feedback to share on the blog.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Share our proposal draft links (all accessible <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=166e90c780&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6DC6DD'>here</span></strong></a><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>)</span></strong>, as widely as possible within your networks (e.g., via mailing lists and listservs). Feel free to link to these posts or repost on your website edited to fit your needs!</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Use social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+ to spread the word about this initiative (use the <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>#WeCANN </span></strong>hashtag!).</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>To inspire participation and learn how to contribute, watch and share a <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=adb2ce10df&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD;font-weight:normal'>video</span></a></span></strong> The GovLab made when we launched this brainstorm.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:47.25pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#606060'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Discuss the MSI Panel’s work and proposals in your own communities and share your comments and feedback with the us in the blog comments or at <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=c78e16b652&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>icannmsipanel@thegovlab.org</span></a>.</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Toward the end of February – we will move into the last stage of this brainstorm – </span><strong><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Stage 3: Collaborative Drafting</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>. Using a <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=e89c0b7d3f&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD;font-weight:normal'>wiki</span></a></span></strong>, we will invite collaborative drafting on a first full draft of all proposals that the Panel will then submit to the ICANN CEO, Board and community. So stay tuned!</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>For more information, visit The GovLab at <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=1a990feb5c&id=6c7b575816&e=32eced4cfd" target="_self"><span style='color:#6DC6DD'>www.thegovlab.org</span></a>. </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>Thanks and best,</span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><em><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'>The MSI Panel & The GovLab</span></em><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#606060'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3><br> <o:p></o:p></h3></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:450.0pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%' id=templateFooter><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 6.75pt 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left width=600 style='width:450.0pt;border-collapse:collapse;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:6.75pt 13.5pt 6.75pt 13.5pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:125%'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#666666'><br><a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=1a990feb5c&id=a862b42724&e=32eced4cfd&c=15654e31a5"><span style='color:#606060'>unsubscribe from this list</span></a> <a href="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/profile?u=1a990feb5c&id=a862b42724&e=32eced4cfd"><span style='color:#606060'>update subscription preferences</span></a> <br> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://openinggovernment.us6.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=1a990feb5c&id=15654e31a5&e=32eced4cfd"><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>