Dear Colleagues following the IGF, As you may know, the fifth annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 14-17, 2010 (ref. http://www.intgovforum.org/). The overall theme of the meeting is "IGF 2010: Developing the Future Together", which was proposed at last month's Geneva meeting by Kenya and adopted from many other entries. A new feature of this year’s IGF is that the IGF Secretariat will compile a list of “resource persons”. As stated in the IGF 2010 program paper (ref. http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/2010/ProgrammePaper.19.02.10.doc), individuals who would like to be a resource person, either as part of a workshop or a main session, are invited to register with the IGF secretariat addressed to: rp@intgovforum.org. Organizers of workshops and sessions who are looking for people to fill a slot on a panel or be otherwise involved within their workshop proposals may access that list maintained by the IGF Secretariat to find speakers and contributors for their sessions. Having a substantive role in the meeting either as a panelist in a main session or workshop is an advantage when accessing possible travel funding. Please note the deadline for expressing interest for registering as a resource person: 30 April 2010. A number of other important deadlines are also indicated at http://www.intgovforum.org. Finally, for your diary, there will be 2 more open consultations in Geneva 10-11 May 2010 and 28-29 June 2010. I will inform details for remote participation nearer the times. If you have any questions, please let me know. Best regards, Waudo