<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>It depends - if you have enough funding to hire highly trained lawyers that can file effective policy briefs rather than simply emit buzzword laden and noisy commentary, then it pays to have them travel in such a way that they arrive rested and fresh before say a set of negotiations - rather than pinch pennies (or well a few thousand dollars ) to fly them by coach and have them unproductive + jet lagged for several hours.</div><div><br></div><div>Time is indeed money in some cases <br><br>--srs</div><div><br>On 07-May-2015, at 9:29 pm, <<a href="mailto:azrak_khan@hotmail.com">azrak_khan@hotmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:azrak_khan@hotmail.com">azrak_khan@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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+1 JFC on touching the grey areas of civil society club. I have never seen it but heard some internet freedom activists travel business class to these conferences as well. May be someone can shed some light on it. <div><br></div><div>Arzak <br><div>
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Subject:[bestbits] Fnancial economy of Internet freedom [was Political economy ....]<br>
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At 11:46 07/05/2015, parminder wrote:
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<font face="Verdana"> <a href="http://boundary2.org/2015/04/29/dissecting-the-internet-freedom-agenda/"> http://boundary2.org/2015/04/29/dissecting-the-internet-freedom-agenda/</a> </font>
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<font face="Verdana"><br> Seems interesting. But what I am interested in first in in dissecting the financing of the internet freedom activists. Does someone knows something trustable to read in that area?<br><br> When there is a meeting somewhere in the world, how civil society members happen to be there? Who does actually pull the string wallets and wallet strings? Who does foot the civil society bill?<br><br> Just to know how politically (un)correct should my association be to qualify? And where to apply?<br><br> jfc<br> </font>
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