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<div>Following on Constance’s note, please find here some Frequently Asked Questions about the WSIS:
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<div>We hope this offers some useful background for this week’s discussions. </div>
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<div>On 06 Jun 2014, at 21:31, Constance Bommelaer <<a href="mailto:bommelaer@isoc.org">bommelaer@isoc.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3">Starting on Monday 9 June, the Internet Society will be on-the-ground in Geneva for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>2014
World Summit on the Information Society + 10 High Level Event</b>: <a href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2014/forum">http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2014/forum</a>/ <o:p></o:p></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3">Our President & CEO, Ms. Kathy Brown, will be on site delivering important messages for the Internet Society and the technical
community.<o:p></o:p></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3">We will also organize several workshops, covering issues such as spam, development, Internet governance or the open Internet. More
information here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/events/internet-society-workshops-wsis"><span style="color: rgb(0, 37, 229);">http://www.internetsociety.org/events/internet-society-workshops-wsis</span></a></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3">This event will evaluate the last 10 years since the UN convened the original WSIS summit that brought countries together to
build an inclusive and development-oriented Information Society - where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information. The event should adopt two documents that will feed the Overall Review of the WSIS, in 2015: A document on implementation of
the WSIS in the past 10 years, and a Vision for WSIS beyond 2015.<o:p></o:p></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3"><b>What can we learn from the last decade? How can we do better in the next 10 years to come?</b><o:p></o:p></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3">Our team will be on-the-ground defending an Internet that is open, borderless and multistakeholder. We believe these are key
elements of its past success and future sustainability. And we will certainly need your support to deliver this message.<o:p></o:p></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3">Visit this page for a full list of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><u>what you can do to help</u></b>: <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/wsis10-participant-corner"><span style="color: rgb(0, 37, 229);">http://www.internetsociety.org/wsis10-participant-corner</span></a></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3">We encourage you to follow us via these channels, which will be filled with updates and live content in the next few days:<o:p></o:p></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="3">- Blog:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/blog"><span style="color: rgb(0, 37, 229);">http://www.internetsociety.org/blog</span></a><o:p></o:p></font></div>
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