[governance] location

[Lee McKnight]

Hi,

On the location of the IGF secretariat, this is the kind of thing that will be settled by governments with practically no input from CS, I bet. So while we may all have opinions I doubt anyone's listening to us.  Who has clout on this classic insider fight. 

We can have more input into ensuring that remote participation is automatically possible in as many IGF-related meetings as possible.  Not the same as f2f, but from a CS perspective I think a much more important fight to get into.

Lee

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>>> Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> 2/14/2006 9:45 AM >>>
At 03:33 PM 14.2.2006 '?.'  +0100, William Drake wrote:

>right now.   With similar considerations in mind, it would not make sense to
>put it in the other spots being loosely mentioned, e.g. Athens, Budapest,
>Addis, Nairobi, etc.   In comparison, the arguments against Geneva are not
>obvious.

The only good argument I can think of in favour of Geneva is, that 
the previous Secretariat - of the WGIG - was working fine there. 
Otherwise, travel to Geneva is also with visas. The argument against 
would be that in the case of other places, the expenses might be 
covered by the host country?

>If resources allow, there should also be geographically dispersed
>meetings, either the annuals or parallel regionals.

And this is not relevant for the work of the Secretariat. For the IGF 
or the Steering Group - yes, but the Secretariat does not need to 
meet in different places.

>More generally, given the complex way the politics are shaping up, I would
>suggest that we should be supportive of a UN-coordinated process building
>out from prior experience.  CS would lose in any other configuration.

I am not so sure that CS will lose, but otherwise I agree - the UN 
has gain some momentum for the CS. We have to use it.

veni 

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