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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 27 July 2013 03:33 PM,
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<div>On 27/07/2013, at 3:42 PM, parminder <<a
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current IGF cancellation imbroglio, I happened to see what
is called as the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BylRrf_lFlA9OXhieGt5WUJsMkU/edit">'fund
raising proposal'</a> of the managing committee of Bali
IGF..... Sorry to say, but it is a pure scandal....<br>
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<div>This is hopefully just naivety on the part of the local
organisers, who didn't appreciate the difference between the IGF
and any other Internet conference. <br>
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Well, may be.... although we tend to be selective about whom are we
ready to easily forgive and for what... But in any case, what about
the IGF secretariat and the MAG. Can they also be considered naive
and / or innocent. They obviously knew of this document. BTW, the
document says that it is trying a new multistakeholder model for
holding the IGFs.. Does it not then constitute an express blessing
by the IGF secretariat and the MAG to such a 'new model'. <br>
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IGFs are held under the UN flag and the IGF space is subject to UN
conference rules and immunities..... Would many things in the
document not fundamentally be violative of some of these norms and
rules.... In other circumstances, this would have immediately led to
an inquiry and questions being raised officially about how did the
IGF secretarit and the MAG allow such a thing.... But we are not in
normal circumstances, this is the times of a strong ascendency of
neo-liberal ideology..... And those who need to have triggered the
outrage, the civil society, seem to be happy to quietly condone it
as well. <br>
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And what about the 1 million dollar that has been raised, I would
think, on the basis this document. Is the IGF now bound by the
promises made under the sponsorship deals.... And if these deals are
not valid, because we would not want to deliver on the promises, can
we still consider to have that 1 million dollar for holding the IGF?<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div>They can be forgiven for this because indeed until now there
has been precious little difference between the IGF and any
other Internet conference. That this could have happened is
more of an indictment of the state of the IGF than of the
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