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<div>Thanks, Maria. Looks like an excellent event. Unfortunately my flight to Singapore arrives very late Friday night.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Maria Farrell <<a href="mailto:maria.farrell@gmail.com">maria.farrell@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 2:30 <br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>GNSO Council List <<a href="mailto:council@gnso.icann.org">council@gnso.icann.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[council] FYI conference in Singapore: "ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond"<br>
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<div>Dear fellow Councillors,<br>
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<div>FYI below is the just-finalised programme for a one-day conference on ICANN and Internet governance to be held in Singapore the Friday before our meeting there starts.<br>
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<div>All the best, Maria<b><br>
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"ICANN and Global Internet Governance: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond"</b><br>
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A conference to be held on Friday 21 March 2014 at the ICANN 49 meeting venue, the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, in the Olivia Room, from 10:00 to 18:00.<br>
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Organized by the NonCommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, with the generous support of ICANN.</div>
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<div>Logistical information, conference registration (important!) and the program are now online at <a href="http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/" target="_blank">http://www.ncuc.org/singapore2014/</a></div>
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<div>We very much want this to be an inclusive cross-community dialogue, so we hope people will consider attending, either in person or remotely, and please do share this with potentially interested colleagues. We are compiling some background materials related
to the session topics for addition to the web site, and personal/organizational written inputs would be very much welcome.</div>
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<div><i>Overview of the meeting</i></div>
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<div>10:00-10:15 Welcome and Overview <br>
10:15-10:45 Update on the Sao Paulo Meeting<br>
10:45-12:00 Panel 1 - Setting the Scene: Overview of Recent Agenda-Setting Initiatives<br>
12:00-13:00 Lunch<br>
13:00-14:15 Panel 2 - Internet Governance Principles<br>
14:15-15:45 Panel 3 - Roadmap for Ecosystem Evolution: Globalization<br>
15:45-16:00 Coffee break<br>
16:00-17:30 Panel 4 - Roadmap for Ecosystem Evolution: Institutional Innovation<br>
17:15-17:45 Keynote Assessment by Larry Strickling,<br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"></span>Asst. Secretary of Commerce, Government of the United States<br>
17:45-18:00 Concluding Observations<br>
18:00-19:30 Reception with Fadi Chehadé, CEO of ICANN</div>
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