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

[JFC Morfin]

Dear Mawaki,
two comments:

At 20:28 10/11/2013, Mawaki Chango wrote:
>#3 That procedure does not have to be carried out publicly on a 
>discussion list such as these ones --for, among other things, the 
>safety reasons and possible risks that have already been mentioned. 
>A structure may be put in place (NomCom?) to receive such statements.

We know from experience there only are public discussions, with the 
help of NSA and/or wikileaks and co. As E.S (Eric Schmidt, not Edward 
Snowden) puts it: if you do not want something to be published on the 
internet do not do it.


>there are basically three ways for having money: i) you sell 
>something, goods or services; ii) you tax someone else; or iii) 
>someone chooses to give you the money for whatever reason, possibly 
>including a service you didn't even set out to sell. In CS we do at 
>least a little bit of the three --through grant proposals or 
>consultancy, member dues (albeit with less dire consequences than 
>defaulting on your income tax), and fundraising or donations CS orgs 
>receive. But it looks like the latter category is what supports the 
>most CS advocacy activities. That makes you think twice about where 
>we actually are on the power map. Maybe there is some solace to be 
>found in the fact that many of the sources CS orgs get money from 
>are also part of CS, to begin with: private citizens who once were 
>industrious enough and with enough ingenuity to become wealthy and 
>set up foundations or other charity orgs. Short of that, CS would 
>perhaps have to receive the bulk of its money from the people who 
>tax other people.

The origin of the money is not a problem. The problem is the 
non-disclosure. There are several ways around that can be explored:

* a CS oath, as for the Olympics.
* the sponsorship to be disclosed at registration.
* the creation of a CSFoundation to collect and attribute fundings in 
a fairly ballanced manner and published policy.
   Its CSnomcom list would gather reps from all the participating CS 
organizations.

jfc