<html><head><base href="x-msg://2358/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Dotum, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></p><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>Please find below the draft for Call for Proposals. Note that currently each workshop is fixed with a time of 90-min. We can finalize during the meeting and send out to various mailing lists today.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much.</div><div> </div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><b><span>-------------------------------</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><b><span>Call for Workshops & Themes</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><b><span>Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><b><span>APrIGF 2013 Seoul Korea</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><b><span>4-6 Sep 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><b><span> </span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span>Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) has been held annually since initiated in 2010. It serves as a platform for aggregating IGF related discussions and collaborations at the regional level which ultimately advances the Internet governance development in Asia Pacific. APrIGF 2013 is the 4<sup>th</sup> meeting, which will be hosted by Korea Internet Governance Alliance (KIGA) and supported by the local secretariat Korea Internet Security Agency (KISA) and APrIGF secretariat DotAsia Organisation respectively.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span>The Program Committee would now like to call for your participation in developing the agenda in an open process by submitting your topic of interests and workshop proposals.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><b><span>We now encourage all members of the Asia Pacific community to join the program development process with any of the below ways:</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span>Submit a workshop proposal</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span>Comment on the proposed themes:<br></span><b><span>Towards more Secured, Convenient, Vibrant, Equivalent, and Desirable Internet</span></b><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt; line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span><span>•<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span>Suggest sub-themes or topic of interests</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span>Each workshop will be 90 minutes with time for Q&A and should present the proposed issue in an inclusive manner, incorporating a multi-stakeholder perspective.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span>Send your proposals of not more than 500 words describing the thematic area of interest and specific issues of discussion. Please also specify the expected format and target panel members in the proposal. The proposal shall include the full name and contact details of the workshop organizer to <a href="mailto:proposals@aprigf.asia"><span style="color: rgb(18, 66, 155); ">proposals@aprigf.asia</span></a>. The deadline for submission is May 18<sup> </sup>(Sat) 23:59 UTC.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span>If you are interested to follow any news and updates about APrIGF and discuss relevant issues, you may subscribe yourself to the mailing list <a href="https://mailman.dotasia.org/mailman/listinfo/rigf_discuss">discuss@aprigf.asia</a>.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 18pt; color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><span>We welcome any Internet-related organization that wishes to become a supporting organization or sponsor. Please contact <u><span style="color: rgb(18, 66, 155); "><a href="mailto:sec@aprigf.asia">sec@aprigf.asia</a></span></u> for more information.</span></p></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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