<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default">ISOC-NY will be represented in person at these meetings by Avri Doria. . One aspect is that it is the WSIS process, started in Tunis in 2005, that gave birth to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), so one of the items under discussion will be its continuing support. An initiative was<a href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/6954"> launched last year</a> to take the IGF independent so it's no longer beholden to UN pursestrings/regulations - see <a href="http://igfsa.org">http://igfsa.org</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><u></u>
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joly posted: "In August 2014 the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution 68/302 on the modalities for the overall review by the Assembly of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society - aka WSIS+10 - decided that that th" </span>
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<strong> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://unpan3.un.org/wsis10/2julystakeholderconsultation" target="_blank">Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation</a> - Thu 2 July 2015, 10am-6pm EDT | 14:00:22:00 UTC</strong><br>
<strong> Webcast: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://webtv.un.org/" target="_blank">http://webtv.un.org/</a></strong><br>
<strong> Twitter questions: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/askungawsis?vertical=default&f=tweets" target="_blank">#AskUNGAWSIS</a> (Thursday)</strong><br>
<strong> Twitter comments: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ungawsisreview?src=hash&vertical=default&f=tweets" target="_blank">#UNGAWSISReview</a></strong></p></div>
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