My IGF Paris Activities	Photos	Photos
Travelled for 27 hours from Auckland and then spent my spare day in Paris travelling around on the Hop on Hop off bus and then a cruise down the Seine, after visiting the Eiffel Tower Registering for the IGF even on the night before involved standing in a queue for over an hour. Fortunately there were others from the Pacific to wait with - John Jack who helped to coordinate the APRIGF in Vanuatu and a colleague. It was daylight when we joined the queue and it was dark when we finally made it into the registration room to get our badges. Jetlag had kicked in by then, so that I missed out on a dinner with my ALAC colleagues in Versailles, personally prepared by Sebastian. I heard it was a great night.
Glenn was up at the crack of dawn getting the booth ready for the first day of the IGF. The table was fully of brochures from all over, except LACRALO. And our banners that we ordered ages ago had not turned up. apparently tomorrow, so we will see... (photo by Glenn) I was asked to give a brief presentation in Marianne Franklin's "DC on Internet Rights and Principles: Sustainable Futures" but ended up on the panel and having to respond to a range of questions and queries about Sustainability and Human Rights. Because the Cook Islands is preparing for a fibre optic cable I attended a session on "Submarine Cables governance and SDGs" but unfortunately I could only stay for half an hour because of a conflict with the Sustainable Futures session. (photo from Joanna). Natalia and I shared booth minding duties during the Opening Ceremony featuring the French President. The room filled Contact Reine Mbang Essobmadje (info@ evolvingconsulting.com) about individual membership (Evin) In the evening several if us attended the ISOC cocktail for some social networking.. an interesting evening - short - they'd run out of food before we even arrived Home early deal with emails and to prepare for tomorrow's DC-SIDS session at 12.30 and then the afternoon assisting DIPLO with their reporting activities for the Geneva Internet Platform - Sara Kiden is also an active participant.