<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Norbert Klein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nhklein@gmx.net" target="_blank">nhklein@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thanks - can you please elaborate on "no-strings attached travel funding to participate in person" - and I would welcome to see whether or not this is a general experience, for example for GNSO council members, chairs of official ICANN working groups, and others of the "many thousands of people around the world as the policy making community."<br>
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Norbert Klein<br>
Cambodia<br></blockquote><div>- - -<br><br></div><div>Perhaps it's an opportunity to re-re-publish a note on travel financing for people from less developed countries (LDC).<br><br><a href="http://www.open-root.eu/about-open-root/news/financing-ldcs-in-the-wsis-process">http://www.open-root.eu/about-open-root/news/financing-ldcs-in-the-wsis-process</a><br><br></div><div>LDC people are very few in IGF related meetings. OTOH the dominant participants are the ICANN nomenklatura. If they traveled on low fare flights, stayed in low cost hotels, and dined in local places, 3 to 4 times more LDC people could be funded to attend the meeting. <br><br></div><div>ICANN thrives on domain names fees. That's our money. A percentage should be earmarked for LDC people traveling to UN meetings. But ICANN is so unaccountable.<br><br></div><div>Louis.<br><br></div></div></div></div>