<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-align: left;">I'd like to put forward the name of John Parry Barlow as a possible speaker at the summit. </DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;">He's let me know that he'll be at the Summit, and would be keen to speak - that is, if the NGOs/CS would nominate him.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;">I've cc'd him on this message so that he can help answer any comments and/or questions people might have.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;">his bio is as follows:</DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow</A>></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;">John Perry Barlow</DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">He is a co-founder of the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0033B4">Electronic Frontier Foundation</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> along with fellow digital rights activists </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0033B4">John Gilmore</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> and </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0033B4">Mitch Kapor</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">. He currently serves as vice-chairman of the EFF's board of directors. He is a</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> member of the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Academy_of_Digital_Arts_and_Sciences"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0033B4">International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A> and is<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> a Berkman Fellow at Harvard Law School. His writings include <I>A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace</I> and <I>The Economy of Ideas</I>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;">Spanish info:</DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;">John Perry Barlow: "Toda cultura es naturalmente libre"</DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><A href="http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpciboci/20050915elpciboci_1/Tes/">http://www.elpais.es/articulo/elpciboci/20050915elpciboci_1/Tes/</A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;">Regards</DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: left;">Robert</DIV></BODY></HTML>