[governance] IGC - where to go and how to get there

[Vittorio Bertola]

Veni Markovski ha scritto:
> My proposal would be to try to create a system within the IGC that will 
> be working, regardless of the enthusiasm of the leadership. Or in other 
> words, what are we going to do if the few people who are always taking 
> the responsibility to lead our efforts (and often initiate these 
> efforts!), decide to go for a vacation? At the moment, our system is 
> working on enthusiasm and volunteers. That's a good system, and it 
> works, but it will work even better, if we can create a mechanism that 
> will regulate such issues. I wouldn't add more details here, because if 
> there's no desire in the list to change the current model into one, 
> which is self-sustainable, then it doesn't make sense.

No political activism ever will work without enthusiasm and volunteers - 
even when you have a NGO (take as an example our ISOC chapters) you 
barely manage to collect funding to pay for costs and direct expenses, 
you almost never get enough to hire professionals. Bigger NGOs might be 
a different story, but then, what you are proposing is in fact to start 
a new global "internet governance NGO", right?

I think that many of us would be able to keep the enthusiasm even if 
they were paid for what they do, but I am afraid of the distortions that 
it would create. For example, many of those who you couldn't pay are 
likely to reduce their volunteer involvement. And people who are paid or 
funded might easily become a sort of "bureaucracy" and/or try to stay 
there forever.

In my opinion, lobbying for institutions to put money on funding 
people's attendance to meeting is a great idea (BTW, while you're still 
on ICANN's Board, perhaps you could propose something like that to 
ICANN; we tried to do it on our own, irregularly and very limitedly, 
with the money we have for the ALAC). On the other hand, turning the IGC 
into something that directly collects and allocates money is IMHO a very 
bad idea.

Ciao,
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vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
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