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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Jun 2020, at 2:08 PM, ABDULKARIM AYOPO OLOYEDE <<a href="mailto:oloyede.aa@unilorin.edu.ng" class="">oloyede.aa@unilorin.edu.ng</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Dear At-large Community,</font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Please permit me to use this space to invite you to participate in The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2020. <a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""> The WSIS forum <span style="text-align:justify" class="">represents the world's largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community. The WSIS Forum is co-organized by the ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line Facilitators/Co-Facilitators. </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="text-align:justify" class="">As a result of travel restrictions, this year the WSIS forum is being held online. The forum has been spread over a wider number of days and the agenda can be found at </span><a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/Agenda" target="_blank" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/Agenda</a>. </font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""> </font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Despite being online the forum would host some high-level participant which can be found at </font><a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/HighLevel" target="_blank" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/HighLevel</a>. </div><div class=""><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class=""> As one of the twelve (12) appointed as the 2020 High-level Policy Facilitator for WSIS to manage the sessions on '</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class="">WSIS Action Lines and 2030 Agenda', I would especially like to invite you to the High-Level Policy Session that I would be moderating on Monday 27th July 2020 at 12:00 UTC. You can register for this session at </span><a href="https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/Agenda/Session/202" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank" class="">https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/Agenda/Session/202</a><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="">. Hopefully, I should send a reminder closer to the time.</span></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Thank You </font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">Dr Abdulkarim Oloyede</font></div><div class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" class="">2020 WSIS High-level Facilitator. </font></div><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:Lato,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:16px;text-align:justify" class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="font-size:small" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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