<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">​​This is over. Apologies for late notice. For some reason, the ISOC-NY mailman sometimes bounces my stuff. ​<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div>Kenya, as ever, leads the way in innovation, and are confronting problems that for others are still distant elephants. Good discussions.<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u><div><table style="width:100%;background:rgb(221,221,221)" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "Today Friday 12 August 2016, the 2016 Kenya Internet Governance Forum (KIGF) will be held in Nairobi. This year's event has a simple format - five discussions will examine in depth these topics: Internet Governance in Kenya; Blockchain & Mobile Money;" </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/kigf" target="_blank"><img style="max-width:100%;margin-bottom:12px;clear:both;float:right;margin-left:1em;padding:4px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);background-color:white" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/kigf2016_170x255.png" alt="livestream" border="0"></a>Today <strong>Friday 12 August 2016</strong>, the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kenya-igf-2016-tickets-26819331342" target="_blank">2016 Kenya Internet Governance Forum</a></strong> (KIGF) will be held in Nairobi. This year's event has a simple format - five discussions will examine in depth these topics: Internet Governance in Kenya; Blockchain & Mobile Money; Internet and Elections; Access to Local OTT Content; Cybersecurity and Child Online Protection. The KIGF's outcomes will feed into the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://www.igf2016.mx/" target="_blank">Global IGF</a></strong> in Guadalajara Mexico in December 2016 which has the theme “<strong>Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable Growth.</strong>” The Kenya event, which is sold out, will be webcast live on the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/kigf" target="_blank">Internet Society Livestream Channel 2</a></strong>.<br> <strong><br> What: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kenya-igf-2016-tickets-26819331342" target="_blank">2016 Kenya Internet Governance Forum</a><br> Where: Nairobi, Kenya<br> When: Friday 12 August 2016 9am-4:30pm | 0600-1330 UTC<br> Agenda: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kenya-igf-2016-tickets-26819331342" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/k<wbr>enya-igf-2016-tickets-26819331<wbr>342</a><br> Webcast: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/kigf" target="_blank">https://livestream.com/interne<wbr>tsociety2/kigf</a><br> Twitter: #kigf - <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KIGF" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/hashtag/KI<wbr>GF</a><br> Facebook: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://www.facebook.com/KenyaIGF/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Kenya<wbr>IGF/</a></strong></p></div><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:1em 0px 0em;width:auto"> </p><table style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(255,255,255);border-radius:10em;border:1px solid rgb(17,114,158);padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0px;white-space:nowrap;background-color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="http://isoc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