Hi Gaurab...
Nice to hear from you...
Sorry about the error--I assumed from your primer that you were US based,
but you're right...I assume that you are working from Kathmandu even as you
are employed by the US based firm...
Glad to hear you are still very active... We really should talk about how to
reactivate the Asian Caucus for WSIS Phase 2... Please do keep in touch!
Will need the help of all civil society friends for the APDIP Advisory
council engagement (Izumi is on it too)--I was surprised when they asked
me--I am not a techie and have only passing knowledge of ICANN type
discussions...but it was impressed upon me that the Internet Gov discussion
will be broader than that, and that they needed more civil society actors to
be engaged...so I said yes...now I need to brush up and your primer will be
on my reading list as well... I will count on your support and call on you
if I have any questions...
Best
Al
P.S> By the way, we met Suman Basnet of AMARC in a Communiction Rights
workshop we held in Manila last August...
I told him I would like to come to Nepal! :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <gaurab@lahai.com>
To: Al Alegre <alalegre@fma.ph>; wsis-asia <communication@wsisasia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Gaurab...lost and found!
>
>
> > Well part of the mystery is solved...Gaurab appears to be alive and
well,
> > but is now based in the US...(see below)
>
> Quick correction
>
> I am still based in Kathmandu, Nepal. and i've been on the list all the
> time. i did make some comments on Adam's paper on governance as
> well.
>
> a lot of work and a lot of transition of work places, learning to work
over
> different time zones and lots of travelling. I've been more deeply
> involved in the operational side of things as few people on this list
> know.
>
> > Gaurab...I am copying you on this note, just to say hi--you may want to
give
> > us an update of your activities even as we continue to plod along in
WSIS
> > Phase 2 (PrepCom2 ) coming up in Feb 2005...
>
> Have been alive and kicking in the national wsis debate, as i still am
> technically part of the govt delegation to the WSIS :-)
>
> will always comment if there's something i need to write about. Was
> good to find that Al is on the governance panel at APDIP.
>
>
> thanks
>
> -- gaurab
>
>
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