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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hello advisors. Hope
you have all weathered this somewhat bleak Christmas season
without co-vid in your households or those of your family and
friends. Navigating this second wave seems more challenging than
the first -- feels like the 3/4 mark in a marathon you weren't
planning to run. We all look forward to better times in 2021 as
we await rescue via vaccine.</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> On our previous zoom
call, there appeared to be support for doing it more often. I am
proposing to set up a call in January. The agenda would consist
of a 1/2 hour presentation by my friend and ICANN colleague
Glenn McKnight who has spent the past year setting up a virtual
school of internet governance. See brief blurb below. I have
attended two such f2f schools and was an invited speaker in this
virtual version. The world we live in is so dominated by the
internet, it is worthwhile knowing a bit more about where it
came from, governance models, current practices and challenges
and where it might be heading. <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">After that I would
propose we have a brief go around the table to share any new
developments. I will be sending out a doodle poll with some
choices of dates</font></p>
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<div>VSIG </div>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Virtual School on Internet Governance was born out of the necessity due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and the harsh market realities of conducting Internet Governance training cost-effectively and to a wider international audience. The joint efforts of Alfredo Calderon and Glenn McKnight (co-founders) came together in May 2020 and envisioned an online learning platform that encompasses the core learnings for students on Internet Governance but also a course that remains free to the learners and a long term vision of a multilingual platform that serves as a foundation for any face to face school on Internet Governance. </span></p>
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id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-63994e2b-7fff-0bbd-db24-7fedeceff40d"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a novel and efficient approach, the VSIG team follows a ten-eleven week delivery format. Thus, during the first year, four groups of approximately one-hundred students each and plans are in place to launch in September 2021 for a French and Spanish version of the course followed by Portuguese, Arabic and Hindi versions of the course.
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