[governance] Fwd: IGF 2016: Updates for Session Organizers

Thu Sep 22 20:00:02 EDT 2016

This is very strange. Part of the host country agreement was to provide interpretation and captioning services for all sessions. The only interpretation services that were not covered in the past were lunch break side events or bilateral meetings. No workshop organizer had to raise any funding for either captioning or interpretation before. Depending on the country were the IGF was hosted, there were access to some limited languages in the workshop rooms (for example in Brazil was for English, Portuguese and Spanish only). Highly unusual. Maybe the local host is short of funding and they are cutting what they offer to be able to run the event, but that is a blow for participation...

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Date: Friday, 23 September 2016 at 9:36 AM
To: Internet Governance <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>, "arsenebaguma at gmail.com" <arsenebaguma at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] Fwd: IGF 2016: Updates for Session Organizers

Dear Arsene,

This is news to me also. I havnt head, seen or received any email from within MAG. Should in-case this is true,
i am sure it will come to the attention of MAG members and it will be dealt with accordingly.

I am totally against  any move that will not be in the interest of the internet  community.

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On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Arsène Tungali <arsenebaguma at gmail.com<mailto:arsenebaguma at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

Just wanted to share this with you because i have a concern regarding the interpretation service. Hope i got it right :)

I cannot believe session organizers to pay the cost of interpretation service? This is my first time i do this, is this new to IGF? Or do session organizers always cover such costs?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

I note this can be a barrier to language diversity at the meeting and cannot believe the UN asking organizers to pay for such a service.

Regards,
A
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From: IGF <IGF at unog.ch<mailto:IGF at unog.ch>>
Date: September 22, 2016 at 8:16:05 PM GMT+2
To: igf at unog.ch<mailto:igf at unog.ch>
Cc: Eleonora Anna MAZZUCCHI <EMAZZUCCHI at unog.ch<mailto:EMAZZUCCHI at unog.ch>>
Subject: IGF 2016: Updates for Session Organizers
Dear Workshop and Open Forum Organizers,

The IGF Secretariat would like to share with you a few brief updates.

  *   As many of you already know, IGF 2016 will now be held at the PALCCO Centre in Guadalajara, Mexico<http://www.igf2016.mx/> (and not the Instituto Cabanas). Please note that the dates of the meeting, 6-9 December 2016, remain unchanged!
  *
  *   Registration<http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2016-registration> for the meeting is now open and all are welcome and encouraged to register as soon as possible. Online registration will be available until 17 November, approximately 3 weeks before the meeting.
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  *   Interpretation in up to 3 of the 6 official UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) can be made available in one of the workshop/open forum rooms on request. The session organizer(s) would bear the cost of this service, which will be determined by the host country. Should you require or wish to have interpretation for your session, kindly let the Secretariat know by 30 September.

For any questions, needs/issues to discuss relating to your workshop or open forum session, please do not hesitate to contact the Secretariat at emazzucchi at unog.ch<mailto:emazzucchi at unog.ch>!

Best to All,

Eleonora
IGF Secretariat

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