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<font face="Verdana">Someone who is not in these civil society
circles, and who had sought funding support on registering for
NetMundial, asked me information about how funding support works.
Since I am not able to help that person with this information, may
I request those involved with the meeting to provide it. Please
note that this is urgent. (The concerned person has received an
email from ICANN informing him that ICANN would support her/his
travel for the meeting.)<br>
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It will be useful to know full details about how the funding
process worked. Was there a pool of donations? Who picked up the
participants who were offered funding? What kind of criteria was
used? Why individual funders are approaching participants with
funding support, and why a centralised approach from the meeting
organisers was not made/ considered? Whether there are other
funders too making such a direct approach? Who are the funders and
what amounts have been committed? <br>
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If say an Internet company was to approach a civil society
participant declaring that it will fund her/ his travel, it could
create a potential problem because many civil society groups have
limitations on what kind of funding for travel etc they can accept
from private companies, especially those who work in their own
activity area , and under what conditions. <br>
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I request early information on the above since the person who has
asked for this information and her/his organisation needs to make
an early decision about accepting the funding, given the short
period to the meeting.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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parminder<br>
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PS: It is not a personal gripe because two persons from IT for
Change have been offered support in a similar way and we have
accepted it. <br>
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