I agree - travelling to Nariobi for me includes a stay over in London (expensive) and took me 2 full days and nights from Trinidad. Geneva is a straight hop - POS-LON-GVA - and a lot cheaper<br>But then, remind me - why would we have to travel to the secretariat?
<br>Jacqueline<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Drake</b> <<a href="mailto:drake@hei.unige.ch">drake@hei.unige.ch</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi McTim,<br><br>> neither do I, I am more concerned about another Geneva body growing<br>> fat and moribund.<br><br>I'm having trouble following. Which are the organizations that are fat and<br>moribund because they are in Geneva? Was the WGIG secretariat fat and
<br>moribund? Conversely, if the IGF secretariat was in Nairobi, does this mean<br>by definition that it would be lean and mean?<br><br>The secretariat will be small wherever it's located. It will probably be<br>funded by Northern European governments. It will have to interact
<br>extensively with UN agencies involved in Internet and ICT issues. It will<br>have to be accessible to mission staff with responsibility for those issues,<br>who interact with the agencies responsible for those issues. It will have
<br>to have good and reasonably priced travel connections; Nairobi would be<br>tough, especially for people from the developing world (including, I<br>suspect, intra-regionally). Plus good infrastructure more generally to
<br>sustain the whole process. And so on.<br><br>Anyway, as Lee says, this won't be decided by us. In fact, it's probably<br>one of the issues on which we'd have the least influence.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Bill<br><br><br>
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