[bestbits] Re: [governance] DISCLOSURE REQUEST Re: Funding Available for Strengthening Civil Society...

[McTim]

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Can we please stop cross posting?

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:
> Disclosure request to the members of the BestBits Steering
> Committee, to the members of the IRP Steering Committee, and
> to the coordinators of the IGC
>
>
> I view the kind of thing that is described in Sala's posting below,
> when funded by a government with strong geostrategic interests, as
> potentially highly problematic.
>
> Capacity building always and necessarily includes, to some extent at
> least, shaping and directing that capacity.
>
> People whose activities are partly funded through such programmes
> cannot reasonably be expected to be objective in regard to matters that
> could be seen as threatening the funder's geostrategic interests.
>
> For this reason such funding relationships need to be proactively
> disclosed. The situation can then be addressed by means of steps such
> as recusal from discussions that relate to matters that have a clear
> relevance to the funder's geostrategic interests.
>
> Specifically, I hereby request the members of the BestBits steering
> committee, the members of the IRP Steering Committee, and the
> coordinators of the IGC to disclose any direct or indirect financial
> relationship to any "capacity building" or similar kind of project
> where a US government agency is among the funders.
>
>
> For my part, I can say that I don't have any such funding relationship,
> I've never had any such funding relationships, and I have no intention
> of entering into any such funding relationships in the future.


Do you get money from the Swiss government ?

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Cheers,

McTim