[IRP] Second Latin American and Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for the IGF

[Graciela Selaimen]

Dear all,

[sorry for cross posting]

The registrations for the Second Latin American and Caribbean 
Preparatory Meeting for the IGF are now open. The meeting will be held 
in Rio de Janeiro, in August, 2009.

The proposal of the regional preparatory meetings of the IGF is being 
considered since the Rio de Janeiro's IGF meeting in 2007, when it was 
identified the need for a more intense regionalization of the IGF 
process. In the Egypt meeting there will be specific spaces in the 
schedule for regional inputs, where there will be presented the 
priorities of each region, discussed in the preparatory meetings. To 
effectively take advantage of the space dedicated to Latin America and 
the Caribbean, the Nupef Institute, RITS, APC, (Association for 
Progressive Communications) and LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean 
Internet Registry) are organizing the Second Latin American and 
Caribbean Preparatory Meeting for the IGF - that will happen in Rio de 
Janeiro from August 11th to August 13th, at the Novo Mundo Hotel. This 
meeting has the goal to inform and raise awareness among LAC players 
about the topics and discussions of the global IGF, to promote the 
debate on central topics of the IGF 2009 and to identify the priorities 
of the region in each of the topics.

The first meeting was organized by the same institutions, in Montevideo, 
in 2008, and brought important inputs for the debates that occured in 
the IGF Hyderabad.

Detailed information about the agenda and the event organization is 
avalable in the following web
site: http://www.nupef.org.br/igf/english/

For further information about the Internet Governance Forum please visit:
http://www.intgovforum.org/ <http://www.intgovforum.org/>

Results and information of the Regional Preparatory Meeting of the IGF 
2008:
http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/mvd2008/igf.html

regards,
Graciela