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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>FWIW, Caribbean governments have designated CARICOM, the
regional political grouping as watch for IGF issues and they attract the
funding to attend meetings. CARICOM has sporadically sought to solicit
opinions from regional interests on said issues in preparation for
participating in the IGF; I have been asked, for one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Remote participation facilities certainly provides some access
but f2f attendance at IGF by civil society actors and groupings would require alternate
funding sources so if members believe this is a worthwhile endeavour, then there
is merit for special consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Carlton Samuels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Ginger Paque [mailto:gpaque@gmail.com]
<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> governance@lists.cpsr.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] Breakdown of IGF 2009 participants by region
and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Yes,
unfortunately, LAC continues to be the most under-represented region. Since our
problems are not perceived as being as "critical" as Africa, we tend
to be under-funded from outside sources, while our governments do not/cannot
give it the priority we would like to see. It is a dilemma that should be
addressed specifically. <br>
<br>
Now THIS is a topic for an IGF workshop. Any takers?<br>
<br>
Carlos Afonso: my information is that stakeholder groups are self-defined as
taken from the registration forms.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Ginger<br>
</span><br>
Adam Peake wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Again, participants from Latin America and the Caribbean is
low. Has been for all IGFs (expect Rio... when LAC participants represented 35%
of the total, but of those 29% were from Brazil.) <br>
<br>
Adam <br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Interesting indeed, Ginger. I assume the classification is
on the basis <br>
of self-defined categories as written in the registration forms. I am <br>
particularly curious about the relatively large participation of the <br>
"technical and academic" community. <br>
<br>
[]s fraternos <br>
<br>
--c.a. <br>
<br>
Ginger Paque wrote: <br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> FYI: <br>
<br>
Breakdown of IGF participants: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> > <a
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/87-programme/484-igf-sharm-el-sheikh-attendance-statistics">http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/87-programme/484-igf-sharm-el-sheikh-attendance-statistics</a>
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-- <br>
<br>
Carlos A. Afonso <br>
CGI.br (<a href="http://www.cgi.br">www.cgi.br</a>) <br>
Nupef (<a href="http://www.nupef.org.br">www.nupef.org.br</a>) <br>
==================================== <br>
new/nuevo/novo e-mail: <a href="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca">ca@cafonso.ca</a> <br>
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