<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">Dear
Listers,</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">The
Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC), the Kenya ICT Action
Network (KICTANet) and other participating organisations wish to
invite you to the </font></font></font><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">2011
Kenya IGF to be held at </font></font><font color="#dc2300"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>AFRALTI </b></font></font></font><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">(see
map below) on Friday</font></font><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>
22nd,July 2010 </b></font></font><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">from
7.00 am to 4:00 pm.</span></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">The
2011 Kenya IGF is a follow up to the 2010 national IGF and the
regional East Africa Internet Governance Forum 2010.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">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
to enable meaningful participation in global Internet policy,
governance and development processes and initiatives.</span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">The
Kenya IGF will therefore provide Kenyan Internet stakeholders with
an opportunity to increase their understanding of Internet
governance issues and the links with socio-economic, political
and cultural development and </span></font></font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">strengthen
the internet governance community of practice evolving in the East
Africa region.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">As
Kenya will be hosting the 2011 global United Nations Internet
Governance Forum (UN-IGF) the Kenya and EA forums will support the
goals of the UN-IGF and the continued evolution of the open,</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3">multi-stakeholder
internet.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">The
outcomes of the K-IGF will be submitted and presented at the 2011
East Africa Internet Governance Forum (EA-IGF 2011) to be held
in Kigali, Rwanda in August and subsequently to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">global
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting to be held in Nairobi ,Kenya,
from 27-30 September 2011.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal"> More information can be found on
the National IGF website </span></font></font></font><a href="http://www.eaigf.or.ke/nigfs/kigf.html"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight: normal">http://www.eaigf.or.ke/nigfs/kigf.html</span></u></font></font></font></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal">For
planning purposes, kindly send an email to
</span></font></font></font><a href="mailto:kenya@eaigf.or.ke"><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight: normal">kenya@eaigf.or.ke</span></u></font></font></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><u><span style="font-weight: normal"> </span></u></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span style="font-weight: normal">confirming
your attendance.</span></span></font></font></font></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#000000"><img src="http://www.afralti.org/images/location.jpg" name="graphics1" align="BOTTOM" width="400" height="400" border="0"></font></p>
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Regards,<br>.............................<br>David I. Wambua<br><br><span></span><span></span><span><img height="110" width="200" id="b2b59d96-1fcb-4fc0-908e-a4b5185a105b" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:75A0DB1B-5738-4187-B2E6-551F3F3D872B"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br><br><br><span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-style: italic; ">dot KE for Every Name in Kenya!</span></span><br><br><br><br></span>
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