Dear Colleagues, This email was forwarded by Bob Ochieng and might be of interest to some of us. Kind regards, Sarah *From: *AfriSIG-Alumni <afrisig-alumni-bounces@lists.apc.org> on behalf of 'Anriette Esterhuysen' <anriette@apc.org> *Reply-To: *African School on Internet Governance Alumni list < afrisig-alumni@lists.apc.org> *Date: *Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 11:38 PM *To: *African School on Internet Governance Alumni list < afrisig-alumni@lists.apc.org>, Ananita Maitra < ananita@digitalcooperation.org>, APC Africa list <apc.africa@lists.apc.org>, Deborah Brown <deborah@apc.org>, Chat Garcia Ramilo <chat@apc.org>, " africa-ir-declaration@lists.apc.org" <africa-ir-declaration@lists.apc.org> *Subject: *[Ext] [AfriSIG-Alumni] Dialogue on Digital Cooperation in Africa Dialogue Series As part of its global engagement process, the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, will work with partners to hold a series of in-person and online dialogues aimed at addressing African priorities in digital cooperation in the Spring of 2019. It is in this capacity that APC is collaborating with them. The public dialogues will be conducted through a multi-stakeholder collaboration of organizations including the African Union Commission, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Internet Governance Forum, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Association for Progressive Communication (APC), and Diplo Foundation. https://digitalcooperation.org/regionaldialogues/ [digitalcooperation.org] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__digitalcooperation.org_...> The dialogue series includes: an in-person session with members of the Policy and Regulation Initiative for Digital Africa (PRIDA) on March 29th, an in-person session at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum on April 10th, and two online sessions on April 18th and April 25th. Please share this with your networks, and register for the online sessions via the following links: - Thursday 18 April [intgovforum.webex.com] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__intgovforum.webex.com_i...> (14-15:30h West Africa, GMT+01:00) - Thursday 25 April [intgovforum.webex.com] <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__intgovforum.webex.com_i...> (14-15:30h West Africa, GMT+01:00) Warm greetings to all. Anriette ----------------------------- Anriette Esterhuysen Senior advisor on internet governance, policy advocacy and strategic planning Association for Progressive Communications apc.org afrisig.org anriette@apc.org -- Sent from Gmail Mobile