Dear Listers, The Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC), the Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) and other participating organisations wish to invite you to the 2011 Kenya IGF to be held at the Panafric hotel in Nairobi on Friday 22nd, July 2010 from 7.00 am to 1:00 pm. The 2011 Kenya IGF is a follow up to the 2010 national IGF and the regional East Africa Internet Governance Forum 2010. The national and the regional forums aim at creating awareness,instituting a consensus building process to develop a common understanding of local IG issues as well as building capacity to enable meaningful participation in global Internet policy, governance and development processes and initiatives. The Kenya IGF will therefore provide Kenyan Internet stakeholders with an opportunity to increase their understanding of Internet governance issues and the links with socio-economic, political and cultural development and strengthen the internet governance community of practice evolving in the East Africa region. As Kenya will be hosting the 2011 global United Nations Internet Governance Forum (UN-IGF) the Kenya and EA forums will support the goals of the UN-IGF and the continued evolution of the open, multi-stakeholder internet. The outcomes of the K-IGF will be submitted and presented at the 2011 East Africa Internet Governance Forum (EA-IGF 2011) to be held in Kigali, Rwanda in August and subsequently to the global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting to be held in Nairobi ,Kenya, from 27-30 September 2011. On behalf of all participating organizations, it is our pleasure to invite you to the Kenya IGF. More information can be found on the National IGF website http://www.eaigf.or.ke/nigfs/kigf.html For planning purposes, kindly send an email to kenya@eaigf.or.ke confirming your attendance. Regards, ............................. David I. Wambua dot KE for Every Name in Kenya! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by KeNIC MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC)