[kictanet] INVITATION TO THE 2010 KENYA INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM (KENYA IGF)

[waudo siganga]

Dear Alice, Colleagues - Terry Kinyanjui will represent me at tomorrow's
meeting as I am away. I will catch up with the proceedings thereafter in
preparation for the Kampala eaigf which I will attend.

Best wishes for the meeting.

Waudo

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:37 +0300, "alice" <alice at apc.org> wrote:
> Reminder
> 
> Kenya IGF
> 
> Date: 29th July 2010
> 
> Venue: Panafic Hotel
> 
> Time: 8.00-13.00hrs
> 
> 
> 
> For more information visit:
> 
> http://www.eaigf.or.ke/nigfs/kigf.html.
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> The Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC), the Kenya ICT Action
> Network
> (KICTANet) and other participating organisations wish to invite you to
> the
> 2010 Kenya IGF to be held at the Panafric hotel in Nairobi, on the 29th
> of
> July 2010 7.00 Am to 1:00 Pm
> 
> The 2010 Kenya IGF is a follow up to the 2009 national IGF and the
> regional East Africa Intrenet Governance Forum 2009 (EA-IGF2009), as well
> as preparation for the EA-IGF 2010.
> 
> The national and the regional forums aim at creating awareness,  
> instituting a consensus building process to develop a common
> understanding
> of local IG issues as well as building capacity in order to enable
> meaningful participation in global Internet policy, governance and
> development processes and initiatives.
> The Kenya IGF will therefore provide Kenyan Internet stakeholders with an
> opportunity to increase understanding of Internet governance issues and
> the links with socio-economic, political and cultural development and 
> strengthen the internet governance community of practise evolving in the
> East Africa region.
> 
> Further, Kenya has expressed interest in hosting the 2011 global United
> Nations Intrenet Governnace Forum (UN-IGF) the Kenya  and EA IGF  will
> support the goals of the IGF and the continued evolution of the open,
> multi-stakeholder internet.
> 
> The outcomes of the K-IGF will be submitted and presented at the 2010
> East
> Africa Internet Governance Forum (EA-IGF 2010) to be held in Kampala,
> Uganda from the 11th to the 13th of August 2010 and subsequently to the
> global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting to be held in Vilnius,
> Lithuania, on 14-17 September 2010.
> 
> 
> 
> On behalf of all participating organizations, it is my pleasure to invite
> you to the Kenya IGF. More information can be found on the National IGF
> website http://www.eaigf.or.ke/nigfs/kigf.html.  
> we hope you will be able to participate as per the attached proposed 
> programme. 
> 
> For planning purposes, kindly send an email to kenya at eaigf.or.ke 
> <mailto:kenya at eaigf.or.ke>
> confirming your attendance.
> 
> 
> 
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