<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Dear Program Committee,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Would appreciate if you could also help circulate this email announcement to your network and also members mailing lists.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Thank you very much.</span></div><br>-----------------------------------<br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 50, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "><b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Call for Workshops & Themes</font></b></b></span></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233" face="Arial"><b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum</font></b></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233" face="Arial"><b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">APrIGF 2013, Seoul, South Korea</font></b></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233" face="Arial"><b><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">4-6 September 2013</font></b></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) has been held annually since 2010. The Forum serves as a platform for aggregating IGF related discussions and collaborations at the regional level, and ultimately advances the development of Internet governance in the Asia Pacific. APrIGF 2013 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.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The APrIGF Program Committee calls for your participation in developing the Forum agenda in an open process by submitting your topics of interest and workshop proposals.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">We encourage all members of the Asia Pacific community to join the program development process in the following ways:</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>• Submit a workshop proposal</b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>• Comment on the proposed theme:</b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Towards a Better Internet: </font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">A more Secured, Convenient, Vibrant, Equivalent, and Desirable Internet</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>• Suggest sub-themes or topic of interests</b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>• Join the program committee discussions (Multi-stakeholder Steering Group)</b></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>Each workshop will be 90 minutes with time for Q&A </b>and should present the proposed issue in an inclusive manner, incorporating a multi-stakeholder perspective.</font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233" face="Arial"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Send your proposals of not more than 500 words with the below format to <a href="x-msg://1742/%22mailto:"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #3e00ff">proposals@aprigf.asia</span></a>.</font></b></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333233" face="Arial"><b>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Cambria"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Title of the Workshop</font></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Cambria"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Thematic area of interest</font></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Cambria"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Specific Issues of Discussions</font></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Cambria"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Expected format and Target panel members</font></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 12.0px; font: 12.0px Cambria"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Full name and contact details of the workshop organiser</font></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The deadline for submission is May 18 (Sat) 23:59 UTC.</font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">If you are interested to follow any news and updates about APrIGF and discuss relevant issues, you may subscribe to the mailing list <a href="mailto:discuss@aprigf.asia">discuss@aprigf.asia</a> via this <a href="https://mailman.dotasia.org/mailman/listinfo/rigf_discuss"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #3e00ff">link</span></a>. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">If you are interested to join the program committee of Seoul 2013 discussions (Multi-stakeholder Steering Group), please send email request to <a href="mailto:sec@aprigf.asia"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #3e00ff">sec@aprigf.asia</span></a> with a brief introduction of your expertise and represented entity.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 12px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cambria; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">We welcome any Internet-related organisation that wishes to become a supporting organisation or sponsor. Please contact <a href="mailto:sec@aprigf.asia">sec@aprigf.asia</a> for more information.</font></div><div><br></div></b></font><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5F5E5F"><b>Secretariat of APrIGF</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5F5E5F"><b>DotAsia Organisation Ltd.</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5F5E5F"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Light">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5F5E5F"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Light">Address: 15F, 6 Knutsford Terrace, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5F5E5F"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica-Light">Tel: +852 3520 2635 ︳Fax: +852 3520 2634</font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "> ︳</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(95, 94, 95); font-family: Helvetica-Light; "><a href="http://www.dot.asia/">http://www.aprigf.asia</a></span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></body></html>