>> MODERATOR: Amali, can you hear me?     >> AMALI DESILVA-MITCHELL: Yes, I can hear you.  Thank you so much.     >> MODERATOR: We will start in one minute.     >…
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>> ANNOUNCER: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the opening statements of the 18th Annual of the Internet Governance Forum.  May I have your attention, please.  Simultaneous interpretation service in six United Nations language and…
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>> ANJA GENGO: Ladies and Gentlemen, good morning.  I hope you can hear me well.  Thank you for being here in beautiful Kyoto. I hope that the fact that you are here means, first of all, that this is your first physical IGF meeting.  And if so…
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>> ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Opening Ceremony of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum.  May I draw your attention, please, simultaneous interpretation service in six United Nations language and in…
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>> ZHANG FANG:  OK. Let's start. Distinguished leaders, guests, ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon. Welcome to the number 30, open forum of this year, United Nations Internet Governance Forum. The theme of this open forum is intelligent…
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>> EVELYNE TAUCHNITZ:  Good afternoon. Welcome to the session, Promoting Human Rights through an International Data Agency. Welcome, both to our participants and speakers here on site and also to our online audience. I'm Evelyne Tauchnitz. I'm…
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>> OLGA CAVALLI:  We have two remote participants, but we are not able to ‑‑ I cannot open the Zoom. OK. Thank you. OK, thank you, for being with us. In the meantime, just let's start our conversation.   They're in, OK, but I cannot see…
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>> MODERATOR:  Hi, everyone.  Good evening and warm welcome to those online and joining us in the room.  I am the Coordinator of IGF Youth and Board Member of the international telecommunication union, ITU.  I'm be the on‑site moderator today…
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>> MODERATOR:  Good evening, everyone.  I want to check also if the folks online have been able to join?  Bobina, Dr. Meena, are you online.>> This is Meena, yes, I am online, thank you.   >> MODERATOR:  Bob Bobina?   >…
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>> MODERATOR: Welcome back to this parliamentarian round table that is, as I said, focusing this year on in particular on shaping, strengthening, earning, digital trust, which is even more fundamental with new technologies like using AI…
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>> JEREMY OUMA:  Good morning, everyone.  My name is Jeremy Ouma, and I work for South Africa ARTICLE 19.     I'll probably allow my colleague to introduce herself first, then we can get into it.     Also, another colleague of mine is on the…
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>> JAVIER RUIZ DIAZ: My name is Javier Ruiz Diaz.  It's a global coalition of consumer organizations from all around the world.  We have 200 members in over 100 countries and we are here today together with consumers Japan and APC, the center…
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>> VLADMIR GARAY:  For the people in the Zoom channel, we're just waiting for eight minutes, and then we're going to start.  And this is going to ‑‑ we're going to finish at 10:00 like it's scheduled.     Thank you so much for joining us…
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>> BOSEN LILY LIU:  Thank you all so much for being here. Good morning. Good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. Please kindly allow us a couple of more minutes to fix some last‑minute technical issues, so we'll start as soon as…
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>> Good morning, everyone, we would like to start.  May I please invite those sitting behind to seat ‑‑ it's supposed to be a roundtable so we are supposed to see each other and contribute in a multistakeholder way in a way that is equal…
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