Hi all,

I think this is great, I would like to mention though that I found last
years pre-meeting quite uninspiring. There are _a lot_ of very
knowledgeable people in the room at the pre-meeting. they have three
more days ahead of listeneing to presentations at sessions, imho it's
better to get at it and do work together, instead of updating each other
on what is happening in different fields (or at least do both).

This would be a great moment for civil society coordination, I hope we
can use this pre-meeting exactly for that. Maybe a bit more with the
gusto of the pre-NETmundial CS meeting.

All the best,

Niels

On 06/15/2016 10:28 PM, Robin Gross wrote:
> NCSGers:
> 
> 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.  
> 
> 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.
> 
> The members of this interim steering committee are: 
> 
> Arsène Tungali & Analia Aspis  - IGC
> 
> Deborah Brown – APC
> 
> Farzaneh Badii  -  NCSG    
> 
> Jeremy Malcolm – Best Bits
> 
> Norbert Bollow – JNC
> 
> The hope is that this event will promote civil society solidarity in the
> Internet governance space.  
> 
> BIG thanks to Farzi for being willing to assist in the organization of
> this discussion!
> 
> Best,
> Robin
> 
> 
> 
> 

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